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  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    I saw one in here recently who hopefully had a bit of an epiphany moment. They were defending the US’s actions with a “doesn’t everyone just want their country to be strong?” kind of rhetoric. But they didn’t seem to be a conscious national chauvinist, they just seemed to assume that’s what everyone was and didn’t even know there were other options.

    I hope they’ve been lurking and learning since then.

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      We should physically tell people to come lurk. Get people into a culture of visiting daily, learning. This was a successful tactic employed by the chan sites and it worked, “lurk more” turned into people learning site culture and adhering to it.

      Obviously for them it worked in getting people to adhere to nonsense ideas and behave in awful ways. But the same principle can be put to use for good instead. Personally I’d like to see something like a “7day liberal challenge”, where we challenge liberals to visit the site 7 days in a row consistently to “test their views” and surely, if their views are solid they will not waiver. For most people I think they’ll shift significantly on a lot of things through this, and many might become active users.

      • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        Channer culture has become a staple of the internet because they use such successful tactics for getting people to adopt the behaviour.

        I think you’re absolutely onto something here.

      • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        Great idea. I’ve taken to telling a few people to come over and see what we’re like, that we’re willing to answer questions, etc.