The US draining brain in all directions.

It's known in the industry as the throw-hardware-at-it optimization. It's often effective and what's needed to buy time for software optimization to come in.

United we stand in shitting on the Nazis.

Agreed. I'll keep shitting on the Nazis.

But seriously, your post makes some strong assumptions with nothing to back them up. For example that depriving advertisers from impressions from a shit ton of users (due to the missing content) and therefore depriving Reddit from that revenue would hurt less than leaving those impressions but attach more garbage content to the ads. If anything, more enshittified platforms like Facebook and garbage media like Fox have proven that advertisers can live with quite a bit of shit around their ads. And so the assertion that this is some 4D chess move on the side of the Nazis doesn't hold water for me.

The time-limited strike argument is also flimsy. Nothing stops the mod community to do this again next week for longer or even indefinitely. The time limit doesn't guarantee Reddit that this won't happen again and for longer. And so I don't see how that's less scary than indefinite strike.

So the way to truly delete ones content is to mass edit and replace with "fuck spez"?

Incredible

Our current system is going about how Marx predicted it would. The course correction that occurred after the Great Depression has been now completely reversed and we're back staring at its approaching collapse. I don't think we can escape that long term, and we'll lose democracy in the process, unless we start moving away from capitalism. We gotta attack private firm ownership. Otherwise we'll keep getting people accumulate enough capital to buy the rest of the system and steamroll the rest of us for profit.

It is new. It's also old, like the way the internet used to be. The way /c/Canada doesn't turn into /r/Canada is by staying and engaging. 🤗💛

It is pretty exciting though.

Tons upon tons of spam accounts on spam instances:

And some, I assume, are real users.

And if we get any representation.

Bloomberg reports that big global investors like BlackRock, Carlyle Group, and Blackstone have spent the past year selling office towers, warehouses, and malls for much less than they paid. Their retreat is adding fresh pressure to China’s already struggling property market, a sector that plays a huge role in the country’s economy.

Won't someone think of the multinational investment firms..

Given our oligopolistic telco landscape, this is not surprising. Everything takes a while if it happens at all. 🤭

No that's just still Musk level.

80/20, Lemmy/Reddit.

Trending to 100/0.

Diaspora, here, we, come!

If one is using Google services which is most likely the case if they're using one of the popular Android phones that has Call Screen, then Google already has the ability to do that via multiple other avenues like Contacts, Gmail, Calendar, Photos, Docs, call logs and others. Not to mention they have root on every Android phone with Google Apps on it, but let's assume they're only collecting what you agreed to. In other words if one is in bed with Google services, adding Call Screen to the mix isn't increasing the amount of exposure by a significant amount. If we're in bed with Google anyways and they're doing everything you mentioned, we may as well get more services rendered for that.

Personally I'm very much in bed with Google ever since the Gmail beta in 2004-5. I'm not ecstatic about it. That's a risk I'm monitoring and have some mitigations in place for. I'm also not letting anyone else in my bed because every additional bedfellow is additional risk. E.g. Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta or some small questionable entities like Brave.

Well said. Not to mention that our gov'ts engange in offensive espionage too. So pointing at the Chinese specifically makes it at best nationalist as in we're not okay with it because it's the other team doing it to us. But it smells worse. Like .. our gov'ts are tapping undersea cables. Why wouldn't others do the same? Everyone is hoping their own quantum computer would decrypt those recorded SSH sessions. The NSA is currently trying to hamper the adoption of quantum-resistant encryption. They're operating under a fascist regime. so "But the Chinese are doing it" really sounds like whataboutism framed as concern. And that's fine everyone's doing that too but pretending otherwise is propagandist.

A Washington Post poll found that 61% of US Jews believe Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza, and 39% say it is committing genocide. Among the broader American public, 45% told the Brookings Institution they believe Israel is committing genocide, while a Quinnipiac survey in August found half of US voters share that view, including 77% of Democrats.

This is an important shift.

Does this behaviour appear on other big instances? E.g. lemmy.ml?