It’s getting so tiresome. Improve products? Improve service? Improve quality? Improve efficiency? Improve literally anything? Nahh, let’s slap an LLM on it and see whether we can fire some people.

I think, therfore I SLAM!

As usual I wonder if this exchange is real. But it probably is, so… ow!

“Huge lunch debts”??? WTF is this even? How does the US even function?

I’ve been here for 12d now and feddit hasn’t lost it’s charm. That feeling of how the internet was before the big companies is so refreshing.

I don’t think any of this is intentional. There is no secret plan or grand strategy, it’s all as chaotic as it looks.

That “article”, though. I thought I had just read the intro, but it was the whole thing. It’s this what passes for online journalism now?

It’s like a fucking forum for adults!

What was the post, though?

Watching the next federal election will be interesting, to say the least.

Quite the opposite. Due to systemic corruption autocracies are economically highly inefficient with low productivity across the board with all kinds of long term effects this brings. And while it might look bad for democracies at the moment, I think many of the current crop of autocracies will be short lived. In the end, economy is where it’s at, and autocracies are horrible at it.

You’re right. An even shittier reddit that failed due to extreme greed before? What’s the point?

What federation protects from is the singular owner of the platform sweeping in and setting/enforcing new rules for some or all communities. This could still happen on one instance, but new instances can mitigate the effects. Single communities can still turn bad, but it will be up to the users to decide whether to stick around or move to other communities.

You can’t really. It’s that moment when you realize you never “owned” the subreddit in the first place, all your work belonged to reddit.

The show is the point. Users are supposed to self-censor out of fear, which is far more effective than any form of automated censorship. Reddit just implement the “chilling effect”.