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Thank you, SO MUCH, for all you & your fellow citizens did. As a naturalist it hit especially close to my heart, I feel I & the whole world *owe* you. We'll be taking your lessons to heart.❤️

Amen

They became invisible to me almost a year ago! Great advice!

Yes, a lesson for me too.

Sounds like Bluesky.

well done!

Agreed. Stop feeding the rage bait and start investing in each other. Mutual aid is vital because our communities need support beyond election season. We can ignore their noise and amplify our people, but we also have to make sure nobody is left to survive alone. To support black trans survival:

Brazil overcame Zuckerberg, that ought to be some sort of proof, stick with the honest, uplifting proposals and don't engage fascists.

The most dangerous phase of a digital democracy is when the algorithm stops being a mirror and starts being a megaphone. Brazil is the beta test; the US is the global rollout. Hope the patch notes are helpful.

Yay you! TYVM🌞

Here is an example of how effective this campaign was on educating people about the social media algorithm. The account in the print is not related to Janones, but it is following what he taught us over the past 2 weeks. Only two weeks. Organizing online is key. Translation in the ALT

The only appropriate response for a mature, sensible person to someone who announces, "I'm a conservative, Republican" is "Thank you very much for letting me know. Goodbye."

Yep! A time-honored tradition of Bluesky since the beginning. Bad Faith accounts and Trolls like those are only looking for attention—good OR bad. The best way to react is to not respond, quietly isolate them, and starve them of their social media oxygen. "Block Early. Block Often. Do Not Engage."

Love this!

- Do not engage far right - Mobilize, do not fear them - Organize to help people go voting: offer a ride, a help with kids while they vote, anything - Mass produce and engage your own political contents, organize groups for online engagement so you can overcome META's / X's algorithym

Super important to stress…

The “Do not engage” portion might be the biggest hurdle for the US. So many people have made careers off of “dunking” on the far right only to amplify their talking points.

I 100% agree!!!!

Also: take to the streets. On the very next day to the first round - where we ended up second - public college students took the streets in support of Lula and against Flávio Bolsonaro. That sparked a wave of movements across the country. Movement and joy is key (also a little bit of anger).

Mamdani has managed to united disparate groups under the grand banner of "New Yorkers" with plenty of positivity and positive concrete changes (potholes pun intended). Mamdani makes it look easy. El-Sayed of Michigan seems to have potential for similar positive changes.

I like the rotting part!

The main lesson we learned was TO NOT ENGAGE with far right online, and to amplify news links and social media profiles aligned to our cause. Rage reposting only amplifies their side of the story, while ignoring them makes their message stay inside their bubble. DO. NOT. ENGAGE.

Such good advice, thats why Im here on Bluesky. Few right wing nut jobs and a lot of people ready to fight against right wing extremism.

I don't like to leave bigotry unchallenged but I find just calling it out as ragebait and moving on without engaging in their talking points is quite effective.

I agree wholeheartedly.

@democrats.org trying forever to woo the non-existent 'centrist/moderate' republicans while abandoning their voters can do well to listen to Rafa.

That's what André Janones has done in Brazil www.bbc.com/news/article...

Block all accounts that post in foreign language, they are bots, trying to phish and get you to follow them

This has been the Bluesky mantra since the beginning, as well. Not everyone follows it but the collective effect seems to make a difference in the general vibe around here. Which is to say, it's good advice!

Because Brazil is doing great under communism???? Just trying to understand…

But it's so hard. Being suspended from that other platform helps though.

YES! Support the Guardian, NPR & the Philadelphia Inquirer! www.theguardian.com/us-news All major US "News" outlets are RW billionaire mouthpieces.

Thank you 🙏

Some in the British media seem to need to know this. All the middle class journos seem to love the far right... ...I wonder why....? Asking for all my working class 💪 friends & family.

Kind of the whole Bluesky vibe.

We had all of that in Brazil.

When on twitter don’t block, just mute. They get off on being blocked but don’t see the mute and get no credit for views/ impressions or whatever.

Spurn or burn, don't churn.

I would like to add not to post screen grabs of X posts on here as well. Please, no, I left that cesspool for a reason

I got kicked off Xitter for being anti-Zionist.🤷‍♂️ Don't engage with right-wingers and definitely don't sink to their level with rage baiting. But ignoring them isn't best either. Fact check them. When they post nonsense, don't engage directly, just post the actual facts, preferably with sources.

If you must engage them don’t try and argue salient points. All they want is ammunition Mock them instead. youtu.be/FK4RHzNHZXY?...

Thank you! Great advice. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

FANTASTIC advice!! And congrats! ✨🇧🇷🗳️🙌

YES. 100%

Maybe the owners of social media platforms will help by throttling left wing voices and accounts here over the next week like they did in Brazil

As others are noting WhatsApp is a Meta platform, so its heavy use in LatAm (I travel there and have used it) concerns me. I’m delighted it worked here, but this seems like another Starlink-type problem. Would love to see LatAm governments develop a competitor.

Any ideas where I can read More about Lulas Army in english?

THIS.

WhatsApp is extremely deeply embedded in daily life in Brazil (as in many other countries). Avoiding it for opsec and optics is theoretically sound but would never have worked.

I love signal, but people here in Brasil do not use it. Literally everyone in the country has whatsapp. Entire companies organize through whatsapp. Whatsapp isn't a messaging app, it's THE mais way most people talk to each other online. "Lula's Army" would not exist in signal

Playing with fire to rely on WhatsApp. Once Zuck thinks he can muck that up for those opposing his fascist allies without getting caught, he will. Probably a slow boil. Meta is poison.

Instagram is also part of META for info

Such a WhatsApp channel would be declared terrorist propaganda and shutdown in the US. Thank god there is only 1 round of voting in most states. We appreciate the other tips.

Whaaat?

That's exactly why you have to regain Twitter back. You have to beat them in their own game and take control of the discussion.

His name is musk after all. What I do not understand is most people think he is a genius inventor two things he is not. He is clearly not smart just listen to him talk. He also never incented anything but he has invested.

the thing that kind of makes me wonder, though, is on twitter, if you saw rancid ass sewer takes, you'd mouse over the person and go "oh. yeah that tracks" and block and move on on *here* i have regular "person i respect posted a take i extremely fucking don't" existential crises.

Threads isn’t much better.

I haven’t posted on Twitter since Musk joined Trump’s government but I kept my account there to have access to real-time intel on what’s happening in Brazil and, in that sense, it is still useful. But very much a cesspit of hatred and the breeding ground for those algorithm-chasers on the right.

I just don’t think it’s ethical or wise to be on any Meta product in a personal capacity. They’re pushing AI, it’s been shown said AI will happily absorb all your texts if you let it. If we’re treating it as needed for political engagement, there need to be guides on insulating your privacy.

There are more channels than Twitter and meta. You can MAKE more channels. Start a discord channel and start posting to each other. Start a hobby club, join a sports club, find a bar, MEET PEOPLE. Go to LinkedIn, go to tumblr, go to Pinterest.

They have successfully defeated you then. You’re help in the fight will be appreciated if you come back to it.

It is to this day. Even worse. He’s shamelessly turned it into his personal fascist megaphone, complete with bullshit, lies and propaganda. Muskism threatens planet earth. I won’t get into the millions of deaths he’s caused from shuttering USAid and all the right-wing conspiracies he promulgates.

Bro, we brazilians stormed X. Following Janones directions, we put all of our hashtags on the trending topics Don't interact with the far right. Organize and mobilize, that's the key Ignore them, let them talk to their bubble They only talk to people outside the bubble when we amplify what they say

I managed my timeline fine with strict "algorithm discipline". Block "I don't want to see this -> not relevant" Block, mute + don't engage. Worked even after they removed editing your topics. It didn't offset the artificial boosting of the right and suppressing of the left tho.

He said it was a WhatsApp channel, not a WhatsApp group that has a 1k max cap.

I believe this is about changing what the not-so-politically-engaged general public sees in their social media feeds by putting a collective thumb on the scales of the algorithm. And to do that, you need to be where those people are.

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You're right, this is the beginning of a path to successfully overturning so much disinformation. The tide of discourse - how would you define that practically speaking, for social media? Can we target it directly? Gathering teachers as you mention - great! Make counter-disinfo handbooks too.

Great to know there was method to Lula's winning - we need the Left-ish to understand the power of such coordination. Were there specifics to how meta's rightwing propaganda was countered? Does the average person not engage, but there intended, repeated true messages counter? Congratulations!🥂

Ignoring the right is the best advice.

Instagram is a hard NO for me, given Meta's policy of stealing content and personal information. I also have no desire to be monetized by Zuckerberg.

Thos sounds amazing. Do you know of someone who has destilled the content into a manual or something, which we could use here in the EU?

Democrats need to come into the 21 century! THAT IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE HAKEEM JEFFRIES AS SPEAKER!!!!!!

…l o v e this.

Bill Gates: "Sorry, far right, we dropped the ball this time..."

I just block them immediately.

Totally agree with you about not engaging with the right and I'd also add stop showing Trump's picture everywhere

and for those who know that they who commit acts of the far-right online are impossible to ignore: endure. for the meek shall inherit the world.

Excellent message. You're not going to change their mind. Keep your eye on the prize.

Thank you! Bluesky seems safe enough. But everyone should stay away from X (Twitter), Meta & TikTok!

It’s probably a good idea. I must learn to have more self control.

Yes! IGNORE THEM. Don’t give them oxygen.

great advice

Can you say this to all the lefty edgelords who STILL think it’s cool to hang out on Twitter for shits and giggles?

What if there was an app that you could use to automatically push your selected BlueSky skeets out onto other social media platforms, without actually exposing you to READING those other platforms? Or even receiving notifications that someone responded.

amplify this message of positivity

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If you stop letting the far-right live, they can't disrupt or bother you. It's an easy fix-all.

bsky.app/profile/dvod...

People in Brazil are heavily WhatsApp users and they get it free from cel companies with WiFi built in the App

Good point! Congratulations

Thanks!

Okay the architect of the Brexit victory Dominic Cummings felt it was unimportant to connect with the opposition except to convince them to stay home and not vote

Thank you for the insights. And congratulations! 🎈

I wish people would learn this lesson, sadly they care more about getting their dunks in

💯% - be like Brazil & vote like a Hungarian! 🇺🇸 🇧🇷🇭🇺

That’s not the forces I’m joining. It’s parts like this. They said forget the traditional politics, just ask humans if they are humans, and if they say no, then Move on. Don’t feed trolls/fascist as we don’t have billionaire backers, instead boost good content yourself etc. Practical 4 good reasons

I wasn’t trying to find a middle ground. The forget left & right worked for them for their situation. They used that tactic for their situation. You don’t copy that tactic directly, you copy why they used that tactic for their situation if you can apply that to yours. Or else you find something else

This is some hysterical rubbish. If you want to wallow in self pity, do so, but pretending that MAGA and liberals are equally bigoted just makes you look stupid.

like i don't even know what reality you're coming from here? if the democrats wants to segregate trans ppl and take away our healthcare then why should i care if trump, or maga, stay in the white house?

Yes, there is not much point to join forces for only a few moments long enough to win and then fall apart after. Many anti trumpers are still anti other things too and not in a good way. Brazil’s left seemed to take that into account and go ok not that one then, move on, no feeding them though.

Dems throwing trans people under the bus: expected behavior. Dems asking trans people to agree to it: next level cruelty.