it isn’t sorting by “contribute/doesn’t contribute,” that’s for sure.
It’s both. You’re not wrong with the groupthink thing, but they absolutely do help to combat disinformation and useless comments. I get that you’ve made a decision, but you don’t need to rationalize away the negatives.
Wow. I’d be self hosting mumble for that. Or using Teams.
It’s great for real time discussion. It’s terrible for anything else.
It’s IRC, not a forum.
Don’t bother with the bullshit clickbait article. Honestly, don’t give them the views.
The underlying study is good though, and worth reading.
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Security is related. With a password manager you don’t have to worry about credentials from one site being used on another.
The US government as a whole, comparatively, are the good guys in this. The US government is pretty cautious and tends to shy away from spreading propaganda to its own people.
There are a lot of caveats there, absolutely. I’ll get into some of those. But let’s not pretend the US government is on par with the Russian or Chinese governments when it comes to social media propaganda.
The GOP being in bed with the Russians and collaboratively pushing narratives is not being done on behalf of the government. And I doubt whatever is happening at Elgin is targeting Americans.
The biggest mistake* Mastodon made was that they promoted “Mastodon” instead of a specific instance.
I think they’re absolutely right to just pick an instance and recommend that, or if that instance doesn’t work, try this other one. Which instance they pick is not what I care about more than just picking some specific instance. Beehaw may or may not have been the best choice, but I’m glad they picked one.
*I understand why Mastodon wanted to be neutral, but it was horrible for onboarding people.
They come with the gift of millions of new users, and all you have to give them is ownership of 95% of your users, forever.
Same. I was familiar with “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish” but somehow still didn’t get it until Ploum explained it to me slowly.
Seems like a lot of overreaction. Maybe meta just wants to throw money this way to take down Reddit. There’s not much harm in finding out.
Hopefully they insisted on an expiration of the NDA.
And you think there aren’t Russian and Chinese propagandists on Reddit?
pro-US imperialist propaganda
Right. Like all those school kids getting shot.
“a literal US military arm” is just as ridiculous. It’s neither.
It’s well known and accepted that the Chinese government has significant control of Chinese companies, and Reddit is partially owned by Tencent. That’s not xenophobic.
The fact that it’s something like a 5% stake is more relevant.
Maybe, but I don’t think it is. Enshittification is a direct result of our tax policy that encourages cashing out, only looks at the short term, and requires constant growth.
There was a time when companies built a reputation and held onto it for a hundred years. We could go back to that.
Tax the rich.