Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday he doesn’t know that a ceasefire is possible in the Israel-Hamas war with “an organization like Hamas” involved....
fund another country’s war and we cant get them to spend a dime on our own health care
One of the two primary countries we have built up arms to fight is Russia. Sending them to do what they were built for makes perfect sense.
Plus, it's not as allowing Ukraine to languish will suddenly solve our domestic healthcare woes. That money will be spent on the military either way. Best to send lethal aid where it can do some good rather than sitting in a warehouse.
If the reddit exodus happens and Lemmy gets even 2% of reddit's daily active users, how will Lemmy sustain the increased traffic? I know donations are an option, but I don't think long term donations will be sustainable. Most users will never donate....
If you substitute facial recognition for long distance retinal scanning, we absolutely have the technology to do this dynamically generated biometric advertising scene from Minority Report right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXJ_obaiYQ
Yeah it's hit a point where I don't even click on Twitter links anymore. If I wanted to see a bunch of bigots pushed to top of every single popular tweet I'd just use gab
it's kind of amazing just how true it is that anybody with a blue checkmark is basically a reactionary now. i have never seen someone sporting the mark with good takes anywhere on the site since it became cringe to have one, so the effect of promoting their replies is making the site completely unusable if you aren't a sickeningly hateful person
it's so bad. i literally will just go and find an alternative link to something to avoid it and have asked my friends to stop sending me tweets. i deleted both accounts a few months ago and I feel like I left at the perfect time
Thanks, this is a really helpful roundup of links – a lot to consider.
This comment is especially interesting. It makes me think kbin should stop translating "upvotes" and "downvotes" into Fediverse concepts, and should instead embrace the Fediverse concepts and present them directly: instead of upvote and downvote buttons we could have 🚀 (boost) and ⭐️ (favorite) buttons, perhaps with a combined score for sorting. It would mean abandoning downvotes, but it sounds like downvotes are a problem anyway.
That would give us a reputation system that makes it clear what you're doing when you boost a post or comment, but also one that won't be jarring to users of other apps and instances.
This is something I'm currently experimenting with. I understand your point of view, but boosts are the only way to increase the range in the fediverse, and they are extremely important. I am definitely open to discussing this topic. I will come back to it later.
I'm left to wonder if having both upvotes and boosts might be seen as novel and interesting to the Reddit crowd. Something that makes the fedi groupoverse feel like Reddit++.
Sanders says he doesn’t know that a ceasefire is possible ‘with an organization like Hamas’ (www.cnn.com)
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday he doesn’t know that a ceasefire is possible in the Israel-Hamas war with “an organization like Hamas” involved....
‘The Onion’ Stands With Israel Because It Seems Like You Get In Less Trouble For That (www.theonion.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/7471866...
European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries (www.techspot.com)
U.S. has "changed its tone" on Ukraine ATACMS bid: Ambassador (www.newsweek.com)
don't lie... it happens to all of us eventually
Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers (old.reddit.com)
As quoted from the linked post....
Data Shows Most Switch Owners Are Women, Gamers React Poorly (kotaku.com)
The new data also reveals that 45% of Xbox owners and 41% of PS5 owners are female, too...
Take a bow, developers of kbin.social
Hats off, guys. I can't even imagine how hard it must have been for you guys to keep kbin.social up and running since yesterday....
How is Lemmy going to make money?
If the reddit exodus happens and Lemmy gets even 2% of reddit's daily active users, how will Lemmy sustain the increased traffic? I know donations are an option, but I don't think long term donations will be sustainable. Most users will never donate....
Reddit mods are organizing blackouts to protest against API changes (www.reddit.com)
Some of the planned blackouts will be temporary, others plan to shut their subreddits down indefinitely in protest.
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Boosting and upvoting are conceptually different
Update: this has now been resolved by changes to Kbin's voting system:...
Twitter's head of trust and safety says she has resigned (www.reuters.com)