But i don’t get why none of those showed up in any feeds if they exist. I am very far left of centre (by american standards) you’d think some of the people i follow would share - or non-us media would.
Check my post history*. I post about them quite frequently here on Lemmy. They still get less attention here even. The sorting algorithms like active boost posts with more engagement which photos of protests often don’t get until they are truly enormous
For instance, here was one large protest a month ago in the Iowa Statehouse that I had posted about
So social media posts about protests often get lost in the sea of bad news and news outlets are downplaying them severely. That’s why few people were hearing about them
*From my instance or some other one. From your instance, it seems a lot of my posts about the protests haven’t federated :(
But i don’t get why none of those showed up in any feeds if they exist. I am very far left of centre (by american standards) you’d think some of the people i follow would share - or non-us media would.
Here are a few guesses:
You are from Europe, so your algorithm doesn’t feed you that stuff as much. It has to be a huge deal, like this one.
Americans don’t get in our feed either. I have only mainstream sources bookmarked that I go through and I check every work day to post in a small American Politics community. I would know if it came through and they don’t. You have to subscribe to small sites/blogs that put on these smaller protests.
Sometimes the protests are put on by people that don’t align with your interests. Not that you’d be against them, but that they’re not “your type.” For instance, maybe it’s put on by the immigration advocates, or the Veterans, etc., etc. That’s why this org did such a great job, they brought everyone together under one umbrella.
Because we have an extremely strong propaganda machine enforcing the status quo and are also a very geographically dispersed country. The news media in America has a long history of under-reporting protest movements here.
But i don’t get why none of those showed up in any feeds if they exist. I am very far left of centre (by american standards) you’d think some of the people i follow would share - or non-us media would.
But this is not that thread.
This is the thank-you-thread :)
Check my post history*. I post about them quite frequently here on Lemmy. They still get less attention here even. The sorting algorithms like active boost posts with more engagement which photos of protests often don’t get until they are truly enormous
For instance, here was one large protest a month ago in the Iowa Statehouse that I had posted about
So social media posts about protests often get lost in the sea of bad news and news outlets are downplaying them severely. That’s why few people were hearing about them
*From my instance or some other one. From your instance, it seems a lot of my posts about the protests haven’t federated :(
Here are a few guesses:
Also people aren’t there to post on social media they’re there to let the establishment know they’re upset
Because we have an extremely strong propaganda machine enforcing the status quo and are also a very geographically dispersed country. The news media in America has a long history of under-reporting protest movements here.