I’m not going to bat for Meta/Facebook.

But in my personal opinion, users choice is best for the users. If Threads ultimately has more and better content(because let’s face it, we’ve all seen LINUX BEATS WINDOWS IN 10 GAME TESTS! 100 different times already), users who want that content will have to create an account with Meta to access it. I’d rather use my Lemmy account and access Meta through that.

but again, just my opinion which ultimately doesn’t matter.

But any way you want to compare Threads activity/uses to Lemmy’s… It’s pretty obvious that Threads is already way bigger which was the main point I’d imagine.

I like how amplified divisive content, misinformation and content moderation is the “legitimate” risks like it’s not already an issue here.

Pretty convenient it’s always a nameless generic bad guy for the actual bad guys though.

True.

But do you believe the actual people commiting the genocide and manipulating Facebook shouldn’t be held accountable for their actions?

It’s wild how we have simplified all modern complex issues to “it’s because of the (fill in the blank extremely popular bad guys)”

Guess it’s not worth thinking about the actual issues.

I’d imagine is because Myanmars situation is way more complicated than Facebook “undoubtedly caused a genocide”.

Seems like it’s getting trivialized to shit on Facebook

That’s a large portion of what’s here as well though…

Oh yeah, and I’d imagine if something like NATO decided to take that path forward in the future, it would probably be possible to beat Russia by killing Russians. I also imagine it would be relatively quick tbh.

But for humanities sake, I hope they can put together a better, more surgical way to remove the cancer from Russia.

While I agree with the sentiment, it’s not like “we” are trying to beat Russia, right? Ukraine is defending itself. I’d imagine the story would be a little different if the goal was to beat Russia(like a full effort), rather than defend Ukraine.

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But really, it’s Mali. But they could have set it up that way for the Marxist Left thing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ml#:~:text=ml is the Internet country,domain (ccTLD) for Mali.

I don’t think you understand how the Internet actually works, which is perfectly fine. Just weird to act so confidently giving silly advice

What would you like the US to do in this situation?

Actually I stumbled onto that one before I posted. I have a new goal in life to get to a level that Hacker News posts are just light reading for me.

For now, most of that is way above my pay grade but I loved the posts I understood ha

Heard the name before, had no idea what it was. Guess that Fatboy Slim Slash Dot song brainwashed me into thinking it was the only Slash Dot that matters ha

Appreciate it

I wanted to see alternatives to compare.

I guess you can consider branching out a distrust of what is known.

Would that mean you would trust mob mentality over the mentality of an individual as a rule then?

Tbh though, I’m not sure why you are being confrontational, I just was asking about alternatives for curiosity reasons. It’s nothing I’m really invested in, just wanted to explore.

Oh shit, Digg is still around and basically what I was curious about

Sadly, looks like the news/tech topics are pretty dead user wise, but maybe I just need to explore it better to understand.

Appreciate it, curious if the post selection is better or worse than the popular forums.

You brought in trust, I didn’t.

I just don’t think purely population based curation is coming up with the best content selection. I wanted to see alternatives.

I guess kind of.

But the idea would still be an aggregation of different sources, but mainly curated by a select few, rather than the full population. Users would still influence post order and all that.

Ohwell, I didn’t think it’d exist, or be well known if it does, but was just posting to see if anyone here knew of anything.