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The best case scenario for these scenarios is that some other shiny toy distracts him, or rather than Putin for whatever reason decides that he wants something else more (which come to think of it, is not the best case anymore… at least not overall).

But while I may be too naively optimistic here, there’s a non-zero chance that the institutions left in the USA are too solid to allow for such a unilateral takeover? At which point this operation serves to pull those into the light as “problem areas” for the next push forward, plus whatever he backs down from serves to make the remaining crap he will do seem more reasonable by comparison - like a negotiation, The Art Of The Deal style? You gotta love that ratchet effect that conservatives always do… which somehow always manages to work on those who allow themselves to forget? 🤢🤮

Oh I think we all got it! 😁

At least, the vast majority on the Fediverse and probably at some on Reddit too. Sadly, his followers will never manage to get it, even after something were to happen - the party line would spout some BS that would instantly become dogma.😓

You might not be saying that… so then allow me to: I definitely am one of those people!:-P

I tend to live in places where my vote doesn’t count much, and have to move around a lot, so not always, but often. And for the first 20+ of my life did not really get into politics and such at all - I found it too confusing, and intuitively realized that despite how people would urge me to just get out and vote, I was legitimately better off not doing that, until I was willing to put forth the time and effort required to understand matters and make an actual informed decision.

Translation: I would have voted Republican, bc that’s what my family was, thus amplifying their voices merely due to the fact that they had me as a child. I am so glad that I ignored all the socially accepted advice that somehow always neglected to mention the other side of that coin: e.g. that if you vote for (or against) something - a war perhaps, or a budget cut - it makes you complicit in the outcome. Probably so too does not voting, but I’m talking about when I was a dumb kid here, where it’s more understandable.

Now I realize that my church had lied to me, my state had lied to me, my news had lied to me - or rather, has rather than had for each of these bc it continues to happen - and I see just how much effort it takes to be a responsible citizen. And I see that others are unwilling to put forth that same level of effort that I did.

So yeah, I hope that curated feeds can be made for people. And automation can help with that. On the one hand it continues to make us more and more tribal, but on the other hand if such do not exist then how are the even younger generations going to so much as begin the process of figuring out even the tiniest nuggets of truth as they lie buried amidst all of the numerous and insidious lies?

One thing I’m noticing, and starting to hear from others as well, is a shift away from institutions and more towards individuals. So like I’ve avoided CNN, but Fareed Zakaria on the other hand seems to be making some sense - not that I agree 100%, but enough to get me thinking outside of what I would have unaided.

Perhaps in the future it won’t so much where or how we get out news from - like it could just as readily be Mastodon as YouTube as news org - so much as who we choose to listen to.

Which pisses me off to no end, bc now I have to suddenly keep track of individual names in order to know anything at all?! Plus the good ones will burn out, usually somewhat shortly after they get really good, before which they made mistakes more often, leaving only a window of time in-between where they are awesome.

It’s almost like capitalism enshittifies literally every fucking thing that it touches, ya’know!?:-P

Oh well, the trick is to keep up. Somehow.

What is going on with The Atlantic lately? I thought that it and The Guardian were the last hold-outs of news enshittification, but it seems like both have succumbed as well. Is there anything at all left then, besides Jon Stewart obviously but other than him?

Oh wow you are fast - I just commented with the identical example. :-)

Fwiw, Blaze I’m sure was saying that the recourse could be to post the infraction there, so that people become aware of a “power tripping bastard”, i.e. the lemmy.world mod hypothetical example mentioned earlier.

Multiple times communities have been shifted from one instance to another due to precisely this effect. A recent example is how !lotrmemes@midwest.social now has an alternative !lotrmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com to help people get out from under the heel of the power tripping admin of that particular instance (described in a recent post in the !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com community).

Well, I am not saying that the scenario is a perfect match, just that it reminded me of that:-).

Though to answer your question, if Reddit were all AI slop whereas we were not, then they would be foolish to not exploit (for moar profitz) the source of legitimately true info that could be useful to answer people’s questions, e.g. on topics such as whether and how to use Arch Linux btw. :-P

Reminds me of this one:

- source

I find it the height of irony that you have submitted this duplicate post to both of these “c/Fediverse” communities:-). This is the very type of thing that is going to confuse people. Like “why is there a @CyberTailor@beehaw.org, a @CyberTailor@Lemmy.World, a @CyberTailor@lemmynsfw.com and others, but they might be the same person - and yet they might not - and then some of them post to !Fediverse@lemmy.world, while others may post to !Fediverse@lemmy.ml - so like users then, are those also the same person? or community or whatever? Or are they always different ones, and if communities are always different, then why aren’t the users always different too?”

Face it, the experience on Lemmy.World is close to that of the centralized Reddit, but everywhere else it is not even close. e.g. my post here has 193 upvotes (and 2 downvotes), while the original says 186, but here it only has 98, and here it has none, nor any comments either.

We are a loose federation of instances - we are virtually nothing like any email system that I have ever used, where various portions of the same message show up - or not - depending on which email system you try to access the same message from (afaik, that’s not even a thing - you have the sender and the recipient and that’s it?). The reason people struggle to understand the email analogy, imho, is bc it doesn’t work, and we should go back to the loose federation of instances idea bc that’s what we truly are.

MrKaplan mentioned that there were a ton of “spam communities”, so possibly they have since been removed. They weren’t real anyway. https://lemmy.world/comment/13613002.

So then it would affect literally all the pages in the book, if it were removed!?!:-P

Maybe to avoid all the page numbering after that being shifted?