2023-03-19 08:04:42
Social media is a lot like the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.
Gadiatorial contests could involve anywhere from two to several dozen gladiators fighting at once. Some events were structured as one-on-one battles, while others involved teams or groups of fighters engaging in large-scale battles.
The largest and most famous arena in Rome, the Colosseum, had a seating capacity of up to 50,000 people, and it is estimated that its largest events could have drawn crowds of around 80,000 to 90,000 people.
So there was between 2 and maybe 100 people tops doing the actual engagement and 50,000+ people passively watching.
The same is true of social media. All online communities follow what is known as the 1% rule. 1% of a platform’s community creates content. 9% do some very light engagement (likes, shares, etc.) and the rest read and watch.
Those who read and watch are influenced by the intellectual battles and information that the 1% engages in.
This is a dynamic two-way form of engagement and information sharing instead of the passive one-way form of television, radio, and newspapers.
Two-way engagement is a tremendously influential way to spread ideas. This is why the Regime is doing everything they can to ensure you are only seeing the gladiators who present the ideas that they want you to see. This is why they have PhDs at Stanford sitting on Gab so they can tell Big Tech platforms what to censor.
It’s also why you were able to see all of the information about Covid, the vax, the elections, and so much more on Gab while every other social media platform and media outlet on the planet—including “right wing” ones weren’t discussing it.
We plan on keeping it that way.
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