Defector | The last good website.Please, Mr. Pibb Is My Father, With Emma Baccellieri
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A Glimpse of Silver 
I've been thinking about the phrase "virtue signalling". I have found this phrase in it's common parlance form very effective at communicating the thing. But then I did a double take. Virtue signalling in it's common form refers to inhabiting the appearance of virtue without engaging with the virtue. But on the internet, it means saying a thing that is considered good and right by the people one wants to like them. I understand the idea behind it, but what about people who are doing the thing to communicate to folx that might not know? Are they also virtue signalling? How does one determine the difference between propaganda and clout seeking? Why is there such a strong assumption towards clout seeking? I contest that the problem is in treating internet connections on hyper-awareness platforms as complete people. Every word said on these platforms is propaganda. It is each our own personal propaganda expressed upon a liminal space. I think these spaces become much more navigable when that filter is applied. I have seen a tenth of the posts in the local, and mostly only at a glance. The ones that are strong are the ones that inspired me to seek out deeper text. Propaganda is the mode of communication by which we attempt to convince others of [blank]. Most of the people I interact with on here, I will never meet irl, so the only functional purpose of my words here is propaganda. I hope you enjoyed this wall of text.