Quite the opposite. Due to systemic corruption autocracies are economically highly inefficient with low productivity across the board with all kinds of long term effects this brings. And while it might look bad for democracies at the moment, I think many of the current crop of autocracies will be short lived. In the end, economy is where it’s at, and autocracies are horrible at it.

You’re right. An even shittier reddit that failed due to extreme greed before? What’s the point?

This is the correct answer.

What federation protects from is the singular owner of the platform sweeping in and setting/enforcing new rules for some or all communities. This could still happen on one instance, but new instances can mitigate the effects. Single communities can still turn bad, but it will be up to the users to decide whether to stick around or move to other communities.

I never followed any competitive sports, always found them quite boring. Add to it the insane levels of corruption and abuse prevalent in commercial sports and I find it hard to understand how people can even enjoy them.

This attitude is exactly the problem. The current situation is new and unprecedented. Not seeing the difference is the type of ignorance that allowed this to happen in the first place.

You can’t really. It’s that moment when you realize you never “owned” the subreddit in the first place, all your work belonged to reddit.

I hate to break it to you, but people in the US are probably just weeks away from being brutalized and thrown into jail at the behest of the Trump administration for any or no reason whatsoever. Things are moving much faster than anyone would have thought possible and violence, real physical violence is an unavoidable property of any fascist regime.

The show is the point. Users are supposed to self-censor out of fear, which is far more effective than any form of automated censorship. Reddit just implement the “chilling effect”.

I went for ultra big. 42’ 4k OLED with no scaling is beautiful for gaming and practical for work.

The very concept of “allies” carries no more meaning in relation to the Trump administration.

I’ve noticed an uptik of pro Chinese propaganda content here on lemmy in recent days. I am afraid the fediverse had been discovered.

I root for bazzite. It’s so easy to setup and update all while providing superb support for gaming. I actually run it as a desktop os and I love it.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Doing this research transparently is a good idea, it will only be a matter of time before other actors will try and use LLMs to influence lemmy. Like spam, bots and farms, this is a reality the fediverse will have to deal with eventually. Better start preparing now.

That is my impression, too.

The Trump administration had barely started, it’s going to be a wild ride. I fully expect Polio to return.

The way things are going he will announce it tomorrow, likely via social media and without prior warning to the other NATO members.

Thank God I’m not on reddit anymore.

Canadians, join the EU, or at least sign a truly comprehensive trade deal. We have adults you can have actual conversations with.