I think the issue is putting barriers to legit users even if it prevents some spam will keep us small.

What is the point of “staggered new account permissions”?

At most we should be Autofolding/hiding unpopular comments.

TIL what pithy actually means.

Not looking good

By my count the right have a majority (52%) without even needing the center-right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Portuguese_presidential_election?wprov=sfla1

The only silver-lining is that this was a fairly low turnout Primary, so the main results may be better.

NATO has always been about projecting US hegemony, I hope I’m wrong but I don’t see this amounting to much beyond some lip service from politicians to the general public, who generally favor NATO except for in it’s current moment.

I think there are a few reasons that mean the network effect of music services (YT music, Spotify, etc) are hard to beat:

• Available of commerical music - a service could obviously enable Piracy but this does make things more complicated
• Exposure for smaller bands - there’s a reason that even C3 content tends to be posted to the fediverse using its YouTube upload instead of the native upload
• Larger training data for recommendations - YT/Spotify can compare your entire listening history to every other user they have and use this to generate playlists of songs you might like, this is computationally expensive, relatively complex algorithmically (especially because it can’t be as simple as I doscribed at scale) & benefits from a large userbase.

This is something I’d like to work on when the world isn’t as on fire, I’m less focused on the backend at the moment and think:

• improvement could first be made to frontend apps like spottube (effective a Spotify privacy app), while piracy is easier (you can’t takedown software for enabling piracy as easily as you can services)
• Scrobbing/Playlist integration across multiple services to get more data even from people still locked in to Spotify
• Playlist generation with open algorithms - honestly this is something the fediverse is pretty weak on, I think Lemmy is really the only app I’ve seen grapple with this and it’s still very much functionally closed (while the code is open users can’t tweak their feeds)

None of this really helps artists though, but by breaking the cartel of music services, playlist generation could more easily include sources that do pay artists.

Honestly I don’t think they have much infrastructure, what they have online is more time, while the rest of us are out supporting our neighbors or trying to have a meaningful impact on the state of the world, they’re busy glazing Al-Sharaa.

But even on Lemmy their takes are unpopular, they’re just visible because we don’t filter them, and they get an initial boost because we (normies) are busy living life, while they are busy on their discords (🤔 weird how they use the same tools as right wingers to “organize”) telling eachother where to post their way to the “revolution”.

You’d be surprised how many people simp for authoritarian regimes for free because they think sucking off Asad Khamenei is sticking it to the man <insert ML bullshit about imperialism here>

Same as Hitler got for the Putsch, not sure this is enough, but weeks love to hear what Koreans think, is his base broken?

There is a strong correlation between the use of (internal) migrant workers and preventing work place organizing, wether it’s the US, EU, UK, China or Dubai.

It’s uncontroversial to say this about the expansion of the EU, yet for some reason people are in denial about the same tactic being used in China just because they have a red flag.

That’s a nice fantasy but not connected to reality, as impressive as China’s HSR network is (largely by necessity to make sure there is a large enough migrant workforce available to break any worker organizing), car ownership is on the rise: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-03173-4

Also Tankies argue about developing productive forces via capitalism, keeping prices artificially high doesn’t help with that, but Tankies say a lot of dumb shit so I guess it’s to be expected.

Tankies: China must go through it’s capitalist phase to achieve true communism in 2069

CCP: woah there, don’t want too much capitalism making stuff too cheap.

Satallites are a really fucking dumb way to deliver internet.

They are especially dumb for delivering “unstoppable” internet.

If you want to deliver unstoppable internet the key is to make it impossible to detect, you’re much better running a fiber cable, but that ofc is pretty high risk if they discover it. Alternatively you want a mesh network that can change frequencies to prevent jamming.

Not sure I trust a site still pushing “Cartel of the Suns” stuff, not a fan of Maduro but this site seems sus.

Did South Park do this as a bit already?

Hey I’m a human, but have you considered letting the Lord our Savior Tux into your boot partition?

Wasn’t Digg 2.0 what “created” Reddit (or at least gave it critical mass) (along with the child porn obviously)

Respectfully: Fuck that.

If you want to find the best instant rice recommendations on Lemmy, Lemmy should have a functional post search function, rather than me relying on a malevolent corporate entity like google to index all the content.

Search has gone to shit as the Internet has embraced social media sites, an upside of this is that wikipedia+Lemmy+key word search, mayas accurate as asking Google Bard or bing, and they can be built on entirety open tech.