The American system is far from ideal but I'm convinced 90% of social media posts decrying a "lack of choice" or "monoparty" are cynical actors trying to make pro-democracy voters feel hopeless. I remember in 2019 all of the "The DNC installed Biden" language was all over Reddit.
I've never seen someone just blatantly lie about primaries not existing anymore though!
Well said and I'm glad to see this perspective expressed. "Entertainment" is the spice we give art to well, spice it up. But without the art part, pure entertainment is to our minds like eating a bowl of candy is to our bodies.
Oh yeah I should have mentioned that the whole interview is great
Good catch!
So true for all FOSS projects, the more successful they become the more new users expect a customer service dept.
I'm loathe to defend Reddit's moderation decision but my experience you can never trust the person being banned to explain why they were banned.
Because it is a post to an entirely different social media site.
Yeah I have to imagine much of it is bots/artificial views already, this line from the article stood out:
That means this short reel has been viewed more times than every single article 404 Media has ever published, combined and multiplied tens of times.
It doesn't shock me a single reel has significantly more views than all of 404 media, but "multiplied tens of times"? A recent comment me chuckle:
"Investor fraud is basically the entire business model of well basically everything anymore."
(implying the ad views are faked to increase the stock price).
I think it's interesting how "maximizing for engagement" inevitably leads to slop taking over everything. I wonder if real people (with real money) will continue to engage with the slop? Some people surely, but enough to sustain these mega-corps?
Fedora is a solid choice. I recommend Kinoite because it's familiar to Windows users and impossible to break.
Because you can't control human beings? I'm not entirely sure what you mean. The entire reason the structure of ActivityPub and the Fediverse is what it is, is to have moderation not controlled by a single entity. Enforced consolidation is both impossible and would defeat the purpose.
Lemmy "communities" are structurally just modified user accounts. So it seems like it could be possible for one to "re-toot" a post similarly to how it can be done on Mastodon and elsewhere.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I kind of hate this? I think most communities are lazily moderated and I don't want to have every goon's unmoderated takes on whatever the topic is forced in front of my eyeballs.