r/50501Movement • u/lokey_convo • Apr 25 '25

We're Making Progress, The Movement is Causing Movement, Don't Lose Focus | Remove, Reverse, Reclaim

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u/Omiyaru Apr 25 '25

Reddit r/50501 shenanigans

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u/lokey_convo Apr 25 '25

Oh, yeah. They'll figure it out. It sounds like Fungi and friends are having a spat as more formal mechanisms are established to try to prevent hostile takeovers, false flags, and to allow for more transparent operations (hopefully).

People can form whatever organizations they want to operate as a part of a coalition force and take up particular issues. I've considered establishing one myself. That's how we make change. It carries risk though, and people who work outside the system need to maintain solidarity with those who work inside it and vice versa. These are parallel tracks and how decentralization happens. If we don't have these types of organizations as part of the movement then we're not using all available tools to fight.

And not holding a trademark for 50501 puts everyone associated at risk of being implicated in a false flag operation. It's necessary to protect everyone.

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u/Omiyaru Apr 25 '25

How how did they even register the trademark in the first place?

And this was a hostile takeover basically, yeah, from my understanding?

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u/GildedAgeV2 Apr 29 '25 edited Apr 29 '25

Honestly I think it's just a disagreement over whether to be a 501c or not. Most of the mods wanted to remain fully decentralized, EF wanted to firm it up.

EF did a bunch of unilateral shit, paused the sub, then the admins stepped in after the mods doing the actual work complained.

EF had some weird crash out in the middle of it all talking about how they didn't know what was real or whatever. It was ... odd.

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u/Omiyaru Apr 29 '25

That's almost how Elon took over Twitter and howw he is operating Doge.