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  • Same. Every time I see someone complaining about the all feed I wonder if they came from 4chan’s b board or something.

    How many places on the internet expect you to regularly use some sort of all feed? 9gag maybe? Did people regularly use reddit’s all feed, despite it being crammed full of garbage and vote farming? I think I used it for like 5 seconds when I first started there before I gave up in disgust and started picking communities intentionally.

    Do you set up your newsreader with all of everything? You want all the sports, all the pop culture, all the tech, etc etc?

    I just don’t get it. All is always going to be garbage on every service just because the world is a big place, and that’s fine.

    Now, rant aside, I did actually find his idea of an all feed where local instance voting is all that gets counted kinda neat. I don’t have any problems with that being an available option if someone wanted to work on it.








  • It’s a little frightening that you think there’s much chance it benefits anybody other than the fascists.

    This isn’t the pre-revolutionary era where a large amount of people would effectively take up arms and pose a credible threat.

    They have the mechanisms of government, they have the militias, they have the backing of a significant chunk of the populace, they have the most businessmen, they have their own locked down media ecosystem, etc etc.

    We can look to N Korea and Russia and see that a population can indeed be stabilized under modern totalitarian rule, it just took some practice for humanity to learn how to pull it off. And you want to roll the dice on this now, here?

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  • I think they’re just reading the room. If he goes full-on authoritarian, do your shareholders benefit more from you getting in his way or licking his boots?

    His first term there was a sense that he might shake things up, but they would eventually return to some semblance of balance of power. This second term, people still wonder deep down whether Trump might try to pull a S Korean style martial law declaration at some point, and perhaps meet greater success.