Maybe I am just am ignorant American, but Joe is Johnson at all comparable to Trump in terms of overthrowing democracy? I don't recall anyone storming Parliament or Boris claiming any elections were rigged.

Do you have a solution to enacting progressive policy that doesn't require electing a bunch of Democrats to create, introduce and vote on said legislation?

The 20216 election was incredibly close. It doesn't take much to influence the final result with narrow margins, especially when considering our archaic voting system which significantly over-represents less populated areas (i.e. changing a few hundred votes in one district can be more influential than another district with 10x as many voters if all of those voters are more politically consistent).

The counter to this is the belief / rumor that studios have been hoarding unproduced scripts for years to prepare for exactly this scenario. One of the big complaints of the WGA is getting rid of "mini rooms" where a few writers put together scripts for an entire season, but those writers are not retained throughout the rest of production.

It would be very easy to use this system to intentionally create scripts that only a few people know about and don't need to be paid in the future if that project eventually moves forward.

So weird to suggest leaving NATO as the solution to other participants allegedly not contributing their fair share. I guess this is one of those "take the ball and go home" compromises I've heard about?

They are way passed being able to do anything.

Reddit staff have no idea how their platform works or how their users actually interact with the site. It's completely embarrassing and unprofessional to the point of straight up incompetence.

Most restaurants in America as they exist now should not exist. We're essentially all subsidizing low quality, frozen food.

I think that's a gross mischaracterization. Are you a developer or have any experience with open source projects?

Borrowing, modifying and extending other people's code is fundamental to modern software development and completely commonplace. He just moved too fast and forgot to provide proper credit, which this post clearly explains.

Social media companies generally benefit from high traffic for advertiser appeal, but combating bots is crucial for maintaining user trust and engagement. Implementing CAPTCHAs for every upvote may not be feasible, but addressing bot activity is generally in the long-term interest of social media companies.

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Not sure if you bought that, but if I was applying for an account on Beehaw using a LLM assistant, I bet the odds of passing a human review is better than 50%.

Agreed. I was never on Digg, but was on reddit for several years before the Great Diaspora. I remember the epic web comics telling the story of how the Digg invasion happened. What some people forget to include in the retelling of those days is that there was not just one, isolated incident that led to Digg's downfall.

Like all mass migrations in human history, there were multiple waves. The last was the biggest, but only because the previous waves had already gone out and created something new for the masses to move on to.

I think this will be similar. We'll see people move back to Reddit in a couple of days, but in July the mobile apps shut down and another wave will likely be generated.

I see where you are coming from, but it's really the only way to protest at the individual level. Reddit's value is the users and mods and the content we create. Destroying that is the best way to not only devalue Reddit's upcoming IPO, but to actually have a chance of getting the current admins to realize they are sowing their own downfall.

I look at this as a lesson for the wider Internet culture. We spent the last decade forgetting that it's about decentralizing and niche communities, not walled gardens controlled by single individuals or companies. That let to some great things, perhaps, but it also means the system was less resilient to change.

I'm hoping that in a few years we will look back and realize that the Fediverse, in all of its many forms and motivations, helped restore a bit of what the original promise of the Internet and the web had. At the very least, I hope to one day see the 2015-2023 era as a low point.

But that would be contrary to Reddit's actual goals, which is to monetize their user's data as much as possible. They can't do that if third party apps are providing a better experience, so they are trying to force everyone to use only the website and apps that are directly controlled by Reddit. So they can track our behavior and sell more ads.