Think about things from the point of view of someone who has never used Reddit or the fediverse, but you've heard about them both from recent news articles and want to see what they are about....
I want someone to add a markoff chain generator to a plugin like "So long reddit thanks for all the fish" so that I can properly trash my 225k comments in a way that will break AI crawlers & search engines.
Under the new bill, Florida could have roads made of phosphogypsum, a material known by the EPA to contain a "potentially cancer-causing, radioactive gas," that's the second-leading cause of lung cancer in the U.S.
Financial support from the corporations that can now sell their radioactive waste to the Florida government instead of paying for it to be properly disposed of.
Faced with loss in the 2020 election, Trump campaign attorneys built an elaborate mind palace in which the former president could steal victory from the jaws of defeat. The problem was…
It’s one thing to have differing views, but I’ve seen enough attempted reddit migrations to be relieved that the popular communities in the fediverse so far haven’t been about crazy racist stuff or other extreme right bullshit....
WYSK: There funded by dark money PACS, but some good reporting has brought out these names: David Koch, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Harlan Crow, and Michael Bloomberg. Some of there members are most famous for stopping big bills. Joe Leiberman, for example, single handedly stopped the single payer portion of the ACA....
Interpol, the world's largest international police organization, has 195 member states, but Russia alone is responsible for 38 per cent of extradition requests.
I was looking at reddit today, and the front-page felt like nothing happened. I scrolled and scrolled and scrolled and clicked into comments. Everything is popping off buzzing with activity. All the subreddits I was subscribed to that went dark are now back up and business as usual....
PRC Presents... Tales of Arterra (media.discordapp.net)
The PRC'd version of the Hall of Fame Tales of Arterra campaign has been added to the Community Module Browser.
‘Yevgeny Prigozhin will never be discussed again’: Russian media to erase all traces of mutinous warlord (www.theguardian.com)
The Wagner mercenary group boss who marched on Moscow has had his internet outlets blocked and troll factory closed down
OC Fediverse won't replace Reddit as long as Lemmy is the main platform being promoted
Think about things from the point of view of someone who has never used Reddit or the fediverse, but you've heard about them both from recent news articles and want to see what they are about....
PSA: anyone still looking to protest, promote fediverse, any form of rebellion ON REDDIT, the place to do it is r/pics. you can post anything with basically no censorship. as long as you mention John Oliver somehow, the mods aren't going to bother you!
r/pics is wide open to all kinds of anti reddit posts, calls for spez to resign, whatever you want with the current rules right now....
John Roberts Begs the Liberal Justices to Stop Criticizing the Court (newrepublic.com)
The chief justice doesn’t like his conservative Supreme Court colleagues getting called out for judicial overreach.
The Supreme Court will decide if abusive spouses have a right to own guns (www.vox.com)
The justices are forced to confront the gun policy disaster that it created.
Unpopular opinion: deleting your Reddit account is 100% justified, but mass-scrambling all of your posts and comments with an online tool is worse than leaving them as is
I might get "cancelled" for this, but hear me out:...
The Supreme Court strikes down Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan, blocking debt relief for millions of borrowers (www.businessinsider.com)
The Supreme Court ruled Biden's student-loan forgiveness is illegal, meaning borrowers will resume payments without debt cancellation this year.
They stole the internet from the people and we have to take it back
Florida bill allowing radioactive roads made of potentially cancer-causing mining waste signed by DeSantis (www.cbsnews.com)
Under the new bill, Florida could have roads made of phosphogypsum, a material known by the EPA to contain a "potentially cancer-causing, radioactive gas," that's the second-leading cause of lung cancer in the U.S.
Boomers are memed for falling for fake news but are better at identifying online misinformation than Gen Zers and millennials, survey finds (www.businessinsider.com)
Newly Unearthed Emails Show Trump Attorneys Coordinating Fake Electors (talkingpointsmemo.com)
Faced with loss in the 2020 election, Trump campaign attorneys built an elaborate mind palace in which the former president could steal victory from the jaws of defeat. The problem was…
Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation to $5.5B from $10B (techcrunch.com)
Ron DeSantis slammed for busing supporters into Iowa in humiliating letter from state GOP (www.lgbtqnation.com)
“He is the first presidential candidate that is going out and buying and paying for representation...
Twitter is now completely "walled" (dont wanna rattle cages with a wrong title whoopsie)
On this moment you'll need an account to view anything on the platform.....
OC Unlike previous attempts at trying reddit alternatives (like Voat), kbin and much of the lemmyverse doesn’t seem to be plagued with extreme far right buffoonery.
It’s one thing to have differing views, but I’ve seen enough attempted reddit migrations to be relieved that the popular communities in the fediverse so far haven’t been about crazy racist stuff or other extreme right bullshit....
Twitter's API keeps breaking, even for developers paying $42,000 (mashable.com)
Everything worked fine until Elon Musk took over.
#BlackLivesMatter tweets vanishing 10 years after hashtag started (www.axios.com)
35% of #BlackLivesMatter tweets created between 2013 and 2021 are no longer available on Twitter, report finds.
YSK: No Labels is a political party trying to run a spoiler candidate for President in 2024 that should not be taken seriously.
WYSK: There funded by dark money PACS, but some good reporting has brought out these names: David Koch, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Harlan Crow, and Michael Bloomberg. Some of there members are most famous for stopping big bills. Joe Leiberman, for example, single handedly stopped the single payer portion of the ACA....
Interpol being used by Kremlin to arrest critics outside of Russia, opponents say (globalnews.ca)
Interpol, the world's largest international police organization, has 195 member states, but Russia alone is responsible for 38 per cent of extradition requests.
Reddit feels like it's gone back to 100% normalcy already. Was the protest a failure? (beehaw.org)
I was looking at reddit today, and the front-page felt like nothing happened. I scrolled and scrolled and scrolled and clicked into comments. Everything is popping off buzzing with activity. All the subreddits I was subscribed to that went dark are now back up and business as usual....