Cool, but it'd be a lot cooler if it wasn't on Twitch.
E: really depressing to see that even people on the Threadiverse don't understand Big Tech problems and how they impact our daily lives, or can even fathom the idea of anyone making a difference.
Where else, Kick?
OnlyZohrans.
He could livestream to multiple platforms.
Personally I'd enjoy a stream to any federated/open source platform like peertube.
The series will also be available live on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, and Bluesky.
Would it kill Lemmies to read the article
Still only corporate platforms unfortunately.
This feels a little like a "take this great thing and find something to complain about".
I don't think you're recognizing the challenges of live streaming to thousands of people at once. This would destroy any existing Peertube instance, and there is no reason for NY to set up their own when most of the population is elsewhere. I'm all for federation, but the infrastructure isn't there for this.
I'll personally choose to celebrate when leaders do something great instead of nitpicking their platform choices.
Yeah, both users would enjoy the stream.
He's going where the working people are. That's a people problem, honestly.
He's been office for 5 months! Why isn't everything perfect? Ffs, we have a guy in the white house trying to burn the world down so he can make a buck. Put your ire towards trump, but your thoughtful criticism towards Mamdani.
He is trying to be the next FDR with modernized fireside chats, and I am vibing with it.
Yup. Mamdani is teaching the modern left how to spread the message. There is a lot of disdain from the left on social media. A lot of us are smart enough to recognise that socmed is vapid and shallow. But we're not too bright to recognise that that is where people are at these days, no matter how dumb socmed is. That's why the often criticism of the left is the poor messaging. Now I understand what that criticism mean.
Social media is the new plaza, like how radio, cinema and TV were during FDR's time. As a matter of fact, the Nazis also recognised the potential power of radio. One of their early policies is to buy everyone a radio; so that the Nazis could control information. This is not different from today in which oligarchs and the far right also recognised the potential of socmed as a tool for control.
i am so tired my glasses are starting to fail me and i read:
Major Zohran Mamdani is going to live (short i) on twitch in new streaming series.
so i pictured a netflix show where he lives on twitch 24/7 in a big brother type living room.
so i pictured a netflix show where he lives on twitch 24/7 in a big brother type living room.
If this guy runs for president we will have many bots going "oh yeah what about that one time he hesitated to call it a genocide". Don't get me wrong it is %100 a genocide but equating someone with Trump because of this would be ridiculous, he is one of the most progressive democrats around which makes for a nice jumping board.
He was born in Uganda so he can't run for president. No worries there.
We have a rapist, thief, traitor, and war criminal in the oval office. There are many immigrants who have more honor, integrity, and intelligence than Agent "Krasnov" Orange.
Sticking to rules, when the Grand Old Pedophile party uses them selectively, is a fool's game. We must either elect Mamdani or AOC, preferably both, into top offices.
If the GOP protests? Punch them, and ignore their opinion. Because they don't give a shit about law nor decency, and should face the consequences of breaching the social contract.
I kind of think blatantly violating the constitution is a good way to not get put on any ballots in the USA. Like the states board of elections would never go along with that. That's silly talk.
Plenty of politicians that are deserving of the presidency exist aside from AOC.
He can't, he was not born in the USA
Neither can a treasonous felon rapist, I once thought.
trump already put the Constitution in the trash, so it doesn't matter 😛
Been waiting for such a long time for a politician to do this. NYC did an amazing job at electing him.
I hope there will be an army of mods, as well, to deal with the absolute tsunami of slurs that will be thrown at him.
Fireside chats are so back
"Chat, the billionaires are acting super sus while hungry New Yorkers are in need of a carry. So let's flip the script. Spend your Bezos bucks here and you'll help the needy. Let's goooo!!!"
Honestly, if MAMDANI named his twitch channel currency "bezos bucks", I would be very confused. But right now he's earned enough good faith that I'd trust his vision.
Amazon prime gives you a "free" twitch sub, thus the bezos bucks.
The mainstream press, being owned by the mega wealthy, hasn't exactly been platforming and fair in its reporting of left wing candidates in general. This has now morphed to a strategy by left wind politicians to go directly to their voters on social media. Zack Polensky, the Green party leader in the UK, has drastically improved his parties standing simply by delivering their policies directly on Twitter and other social media. This is quite likely to become the way that left wing politicians operate in the near future. They potentially seek to gain leverage to fairer representation and presence in mainstream media, although that might not even matter given the mass exodus and distrust of the people of those old platforms.
But twitch is owned by Amazon and frankly they can and do moderate Twitch streams.
This is not supposed to be a discouragement of politicians connecting with the public via any means necessary.
I just want to point out the flawed logic of saying news media is owned by billionaires so it can't be trusted, but twitch, also owned by a billionaire can somehow be trusted.
Hope he's doing a world tour after he's done with NYC :)
I personally don't foresee this being that good of an idea. I foresee disinformation bots, porn link bots, and hate comments forcibly flooding the chat to ensure nothing actually happens, with not enough moderators to deal with it all. That, and twitch refusing to help moderate and instead shutting the account down in an attempt to silence him for big daddy Baldo.
Large twitch chats definitely can be constructive and well moderated, and the mayors office definitely has the resources to do that. I'm cautiously optimistic
Bruh is going to debate mog city council
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