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As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal
  • Nice try, monobot glares suspiciously

  • Wagner chief 'declares war' on Putin after Russia launches missile strike on his troops
  • Rosguardia has hundreds of thousands of internal soldiers. Assuming their allegiance is to the MoD (and at this point there is no way of knowing), I don't see how Prigozhin could successfully stage the ousting.

    If he was really trying to help the Ukrainians the most effective decision would probably be to attack the rear of the Russian lines to allow Ukrainian forces to come through. Wagner units have been off the front for about a month so I don't think it really has any effect on Ukraines ability to break through the lines without the above scenario happening, but nothing Prigozhin has said leads me to think he'd help Ukraine, as he also stated he plans to return to the Frontlines to help defend the motherland against the west after ousting Shoigu.

  • Wagner chief 'declares war' on Putin after Russia launches missile strike on his troops
  • It's honestly so hard to tell what's happening. Is Prigozin acting in cahoots with Putin to solidify power? Is he being helped by the CIA to institute a coup? Is he just gone nutters and going rogue? Is this just another extreme version of political theatre from him? There are suggestions he's already started walking back some of the comments. Time will tell.

  • Wagner chief 'declares war' on Putin after Russia launches missile strike on his troops
  • Incorrect title, he has declared they're marching (or planning to) march against Shoigu and oust him from the MoD.

    In his statement he specifically states that he thinks the MoD has also misled the President. So his argument is that he is he's trying to help Russia and Putin by getting rid of Shoigu.

    FSB has declared a criminal investigation on charges of inciting a coup, and Rosguardia has been put on high alert. Medvedev has stated "all necessary precaution measures have started".

    Will be interesting to see what happens next.

  • Wagner Boss says invasion of Ukraine is based on LIES as he condemns Military leaders
  • FSB has announced they've started a criminal investigation into him.

    I wonder if he's in cahoots with the CIA or something?

  • Christian Selig: I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support
  • /r/politics and /r/worldnews are beyond terrible. Just constant propaganda and astro turfing, bots, and just generally brainwashed idiots who take an editorialized headline as fact, and then race to the comments to make a shitty non-constructive joke. And God forbid you try to bring up evidence to counter their arguments, you'll get downvoted to hell if not banned. It really started to become noticable around 2016 after Bernie lost the primaries, and it's only gotten exponentially worse since then.

  • Christian Selig: I want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the support
  • I can. This is what companies do. This is why for profit corporations should not run our digital town squares and social media. Even if they're good in the beginning, they will ultimately fall to the monster that is the quarterly profits report. Even if they're profitable, they want to be MORE profitable.

    That's why I'm excited about the fediverse, we can finally try to democratize the infrastructure and codebase that we all benefit from, instead of it being closed off and in the hands of the few, who have a different agenda than the normal user.

  • List of Instances pledging to block Meta Instances
  • More is not better. Also if you think Facebook, Meta or the zuck are good people, you haven't been paying attention.

  • How’s everyone liking this so far?
  • In case anyone was wondering, I'm pro eating the rich btw.

  • How’s everyone liking this so far?
  • It's going to take time for all the users to find, make, and mold their communities. It took reddit years until some of main subs you see today were ironed out.

  • How’s everyone liking this so far?
  • Jerboa is FOSS? You can make pull requests on the repo here: https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa

  • Redditors brigading against Lemmy
  • I'm convinced the general reddit population really are just a bunch of adult babies that have become just docile consumers and sycophants. The fact that people complain about how difficult it is to sign up on lemmy/other fediverse instances shows the level of competency these people work at. If you can't put a modicum of effort into the community you're trying to be a part of, it's probably better you're not here anyways. We don't need 200 million people on lemmy for it to be a fun and interesting place to engage with content on. I'd rather have a smaller (than reddit) userbase, with better content and discussion, than the vast wave of karma farmers posted the lowest effort puns to every single article on world news.

    Love Northlane btw.

  • Redditors brigading against Lemmy
  • It's a slow burn for me, but I'm on Reddit less and less everyday, and on lemmy/jerboa more. Especially the more comfortable I become with the interface here and learning how I like to use the app, the little tricks to find the content I want etc. Only reason I've even still checked reddit is cause Relay won't shut down till the 30th.

    The GitHub repos are more active than ever, and I'm feeling confident lemmy/jerboa will be at parity soon, especially with all the eyes and scrutiny they're getting now with more users. We just gotta be patient and constructive with our criticism and feedback.

  • Why the Federal Reserve’s epic fight against inflation might be over
  • I feel like the pause on rate hikes is to just avoid spooking the market aka investors. Anyone who works in the industry can tell you investors stomp their feet and cry whenever they don't get what they want, and what they want is antithetical to the health of the market, so the Fed has to try and increase rates at a pace that doesn't cause a complete spook/revolt from the investors. But the market is so leveraged I fear 5% may still not be adequate, and we'll need to be at these rates and higher for a much longer time than the investor class wants to tolerate. Inflation won't go down until there is some semblance of wealth redistribution from the large capital holders to normal market actors imo.

  • Countries push back against US’s anti-China tech policy
  • I think it's more about maintaining superiority as the unilateral world superpower. Can't let anyone else come into a position to threaten western hegemony. The military industrial complex profits are just the icing on the cake.

  • Bangladesh joining BRICS
  • Can't wait for the neolib astroturfing to make it's way here too

  • Bangladesh joining BRICS
  • Can't wait for all the neolib astroturfing to make it's way here too

  • What kind of bugs are you guys getting?
  • Value/JSONOBJECT error happens to me constantly. usually when navigating to comments, a community,a post by someone from their profile,etc. Probably the biggest blocker to using the app right now.

  • What kind of bugs are you guys getting?
  • I'll be logged in, but when attempting to subscribe to a community or adding a comment, I get an error "login first". I just went back to the account drop-down and reselected my account and am now able to make this comment. I'll often come back to the app and see my account and login info is gone, and I have to re-add them and re-login