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  • Tbh I don’t think any kind of normal car is going to be a good “apocalypse vehicle”. EVs might rely on electrical infrastructure, but gas vehicles ultimately rely on fuel refining and extraction infrastructure, making fueling them in the long run more difficult than an EV (since electricity isn’t really that difficult to make, it might be unreasonable for a normal person unless they’re some kind of hobbyist electrician and carpenter with a river next door or something, but a whole community could probably cobble together a small amount of generation capacity with enough motivation). Plus, any car made today is going to rely on complex components like computers, and most will require maintained paved roads.

    What you honestly want, I would think, would be like a bicycle or something, maybe a robust cargo bike if possible, and maybe with the tires swapped for some that handle dirt better. Or if it must be something motorized


  • You underestimate my ability to unintentionally but habitually create a massive wall of text that, when the text-walliness of it is pointed out, I cannot simply add blank lines to for readability without rewriting parts of it, because the whole thing is technically just one or two (massively run-on) sentences.








  • The trouble is, these sorts of trolls will take no issue with simply replying to themselves on multiple accounts, gaming engagement algorithms by buying popular accounts or stealing popular content, etc. Theyre almost certainly going to get the visibility they want either way, if they know what they’re doing.

    Hence I think that it is important to visibly show dissent against them, especially if you get enough people in a community to do it as to leave them visibly in the minority (okay, moderation would be even better, but the viability of that depends a lot on the space), to combat the effect wherein people go along with views that they perceive as being typical of those around them. Such a thing isnt truly an argument, at least not a good faith one.

    I get where you’re coming from, im just not really convinced that it works as well as the conventional wisdom about trolls suggests.


  • I think it depends on the type of “troll” tbh. The traditional kind, looking to get a rise out of people for amusement? Sure, they need you to interact, and starving them of that attention kills the point. But nowadays we also use that term for people trying to shape public discourse in a dishonest fashion, such as when governments attempt to manipulate foreign public opinion, or politically motivated people pretend to be a different position in order to discredit it.

    These kinds are slightly different I think, because their goal isnt necessarily to get a rise out of people, just getting seen enough times is enough to normalize their message in people’s heads.

    For that kind, it might be a good idea to present a counter-narrative, so that people that come across them dont subconsciously get the idea that the troll’s message is one with wide public support. You wont change their mind by arguing with them of course, but that just means that the point is not to change their mind, but to drown them out essentially.



  • Part of the nature of the fediverse is gonna be instance drama, since there are no higher admins to take disputes to between instances, and posts that affect the status of a large instance (like discussions about possible de-federation, or large communities migrating between them) are naturally going to get a lot of attention on their respective instance that will drive them high on /all feeds.