Came here to post this.

Look at the hands in the upper corners, looks pretty AI-ish.

Swartz co-owned reddit for around 1 year, 2006-2007. His influence has overall probably been insignificant.

Elon didn’t say he would charge all the X/Twitter users.

What do you mean by that? He didn’t say he was definitely going to do so right now, but he proposed it with quite some degree of seriousness. I don’t intend to watch the whole video with Netanyahu to make sure what he said exactly, but all the articles I’ve seen are too detailed and explicit for it to be just an aside that the media blew out of proportion.

Regarding the analogy:

1. it’s not one but multiple connected rooms

2. the room with people in red shirts has suddenly decided to connect with the rooms with the less numerous blue and green shirts

3. it’s not “someone” in a blue shirt, it’s a significant number of people in blue shirts who think the red ones should simply return to their own room that they were perfectly happy with until now

We were invited to join the discussion

https://lemm.ee/post/4543536

Where exactly do you see the invitation? I see “I am very interested to hear thoughts and responses from our own users.”

It certainly wouldn’t be brigading if the ratio of hexbear comments was proportional to its size. But I haven’t seen many lemmy.world comments there, for example, and they saw the thread in their feeds just as much as you did.

That’s how federation works, is it not?

Federation works by connecting various instances with different goals and different userbases. Those instances need a space to discuss those goals among themselves, where the admins can communicate with the users, etc. Some external engagement is to be expected, but one specific instance creating 3x more comments than all the others taken together (including the instance whose policy is supposed to be discussed) should, uh, raise an eyebrow.