I downloaded Instagram to talk with some of my foreign friends. I decided to peruse what sort of left-wing space it had, expecting the standard Reddit-esque reactionary anti-communism. Instead, I found a sea of ultra/leftcom nonsense: hundreds of posts and comments of phrase-mongering and dogmatic nonsense, not to mention gross misunderstandings of Marx, Lenin, and Mao, as well as either entirely ignoring or looking down on modern work such as that done by Chinese scholars.
Is there something specific about Instagram or its target user base that has led to fostering this community in ways other Western platforms have not? As it seems far more prevalent than on any other platform I’ve seen.
If the algo detects you have left wing views, it sends you ultraleft conspiracy theory stuff. If the algo detects you’re liberal or moderate, it sends you right wing punditry. That’s why Bad Empanada is such a fucking maniac, its his job to be unhinged ultra, he plays a particular role in the hegemony, whether he does it intentionally or not.
All insta shows me is hotep content and conspiracy theories.
That makes sense I’m just surprised there’s that much ultra/leftcom nonsense to feed the algorithm more than even Reddit who’s culture of pseudo intellectualism and smugness is such a perfect fit.