After watching the video myself, I found a few takeaways relevant…

1. He is denouncing forms of crowdthink.
2. He denounces the way people on Lemmy tend to grab sources and distribute biased knowledge.
3. Key red flags he gives describe the core fabric of Lemmy’s culture, such as when he says it’s a red flag when we interpret peoples’ intent for each other or try to tell each other how to feel about certain things.
4. The very beginning of the video has him talk about the difficulty of defining a good source over a bad one due to how we cannot be certain of anything and how our ideology might be natural to us only due to our circumstances. People on Lemmy tend to not think in any terms other than “if it’s what I’m accustomed to, it’s right”.
5. He talks about sources in a way that makes all the instances of people on Lemmy complaining about others sealioning look bad.
6. OP is historical on Lemmy and has seen all the things he talks about converge on her in ways that violate absolutely everything he says (one of the key ones even has a community trying to establish sealioning as inherently wrong). It’s buried now, but look up material related to "Leni, “Lenny”, or “Call me Lenny/Leni” (that was their full screen name). This individual who led a witch hunt against Leni (short for Madeline, if you get tired of saying Leni) even got the whole fediverse to violate the “indicting a whole demographic” red flag because this place is far from his way of thinking, not that it isn’t common for them to do this to big businesses in general. I remember getting mixed into it just because I merely asked about her and shared a meme and being accused of being Leni.

I am currently running an experiment about this as an example in progress.

You dropped something.

This is what she’s referring to.

This is what she’s referring to.

Madagascar has always had nothing to it. So good they’re willing to do this.

Given recent events, I’m not surprised.

do you have any specific examples of this phenomenon?

Earlier this year, digital communities actually had to crack down on consequentialism because they were using it to support serial killers. I’m surprised someone in ours hasn’t seen how people view that.

Arguments against utilizing identity are typically argued in personal spaces. You may have heard of stories of family members who convert to a religion so that they can complain they’re being persecuted when someone speaks against them, only for that person to not follow through with it in other ways. My mom has a friend who is Jewish who comes to holiday dinners and takes home a ham, but you can’t even talk about the current wartime situation in you-know-where with this person without them burying you with ultra long responses about how you must be insensitive. My brother who was in prison also mentioned that a lot of the prisoners feign belonging to different minorities because people of those minorities get better prison food (a self-imposed rule on the officers). Before my aunt died, she would say her diabetes meant she should get to choose what restaurant to go to, but then you’d see the inside of her kitchen and see that it’s full of the worst cereals she could possibly be eating if she had diabetes (not an example I’d blame her for though since she died due to waiting in a car in the freezing cold which caused her accuchek to malfunction).

Once in a while, you see this in the media. Someone might say they have cardio issues because it attracts donations, but then you see them in amusement park pictures enjoying things that someone like that shouldn’t be enjoying. A politician might say they’re full-blooded indigenous to get more respect from people, only to take up offensive practices or end up doing something not typical of that group of people (e.g. drink large quantities of alcohol).

It would put all the infighting in some of these communities into perspective.

Oh. Whoops. Was that there before? Sorry about that.

It baffles me why Davel thought I was a recurring troll, and then had to unban me just to ban me again so that I appeared at the top of the modlogs. Does he genuinely think I’m any of those users, or is this a game of satisfaction to him as this would imply?

I’m surprised they’d actually oblige on that.

We could always switch to committee-based governance.

Has he even been in the news lately?

If by speculation you mean indirect confirmation.

Not really what I said. Though I think this was answered better in the other exchange where someone asked.

It’s not new news. It’s just a new development in that news. Spying was already a topic with Luigi and Robin, but Charlie Kirk’s assassination was an enormous deal apparently, with world leaders the world over paying respects. That kicked off a whole search engine based registry, which MSNBC reported on. Some of this involves a doxxing process, and even if this wasn’t already made clear, you could put two and two together and get an idea that Lemmy would play a huge part in this and would be the thing all the paper trails lead to.

As for knowing exactly who is working with the NSA, people working for the agency would follow the same tactics. They entice a reaction, fake-debate with people, mine people for knowledge while knowing who probably is and isn’t sympathetic to extremists (even though they would play it safe and treat everyone the same). They’re not afraid to outright sit down with trustees though (recall the story of Orwell ratting out his comrades), and the crew behind the search engine registry isn’t classified. Some people will brag and say they’re working with the government as a flex, and occasionally it will be consistent with events surrounding suspects.

For better or worse, the government isn’t dumb and they’re aware not everyone in the fediverse is who they’re looking for. The fediverse is very feudal, and the government has occasionally popped in to subtly ask the disillusioned for pointers, since simple spying often leads to questions. So there’s active collaboration here.

Keep in mind this is a recent development in fairly old news. Trump was known in the beginning to vet immigrants for their social media presence. The freedom from lèse-majesté as it’s called has been broken.

A mix of all the above. Recall that time in American history that Orwell ratted on his comrades.

They have a weird way of showing it.

Judas-kissing is a midwest term. It means using covert means to mark someone as a person of interest for other people. It comes from the story of Judas kissing Jesus as a way to tell the Romans which person in the audience was Jesus.

“Honeypot” is government slang. It means an organization secretly made to keep track of a certain demographic. In this case, it refers to the government using the fediverse as a litmus test for whoever they think is worth putting under their radar.