If you treat it as spicy search it works pretty great though.

No they’re not sleeping. Evidence: they’re still alive.

They fixed that. It’s part of why Schumer caved. The lower influence of the DNC in primaries meant he couldn’t use that power to whip votes and keep control of the party.

I’m glad you’ve noticed.

Though I do agree that Schumer should have fought more instead of capitulating. The feds who were suffering were still up for the fight.

Then they should leave Ukraine.

Is it the ones blowing the dog whistle or the ones hearing it that are too dumb to make it subtle?

That one doesn’t fit their current objectives.

Their current objective is Dems are responsible for everything the Republicans do.

I mean, I was going to make this joke, but this kind of ruins it. Though, maybe if the joke is seen first…

As part of the community team for LW, I’ve worked towards this goal as long as I’ve been here. I do not have the authority to make it policy.

But considering, A. There aren’t that many big communities, and B. Users seem to hate any kind of moderation anyway, it doesn’t seem like a big stress point at the moment.

The users have demanded that US news should be allowed in World News because anything that happens in the US affects the world. And, uh, I’ve tested this and it seems to be consensus. I hate it, but any mods that tried to enforce something sane have left, and the users have gotten their way.

I guess everyone just browses all anyway, for now. So they don’t want things removed that have comments regardless of where it’s posted.

You’re literally here. Did you think we were immune?

Just like nuclear technology is no longer a threat to humanity, right? We’re dang near a hundred years there.

I expect they’ll probably follow code anyway? Because you know as soon as dipshit is out of there, they’re going to have to inspect that thing for safety reasons. And the contractor probably doesn’t want the reputation of building absolute crap.

On the other hand, if he’s as good as picking construction contractors as he is at picking lawyers or cabinet positions, well…

If you really want a community to take off, you have to basically schedule yourself to make content there.

The lessons from every group I’ve grown (and haven’t) is that consistency is key. You have to develop the habit in other people, and it might take a long time to start.

If you want to be a Twitch streamer, for instance, you have to do it at the same time every day.

Kind of. I don’t think the Internet will ever return to the heyday of Reddit.

Once governments and groups recognized that social media actually does move public opinion, that was the end of good, anonymous social media.

The ways to bring some of that back aren’t great. A community where everyone’s verified is much better, but it’ll be quite different from the Reddit days where you’d have (usually real) ridiculous subject matter experts chiming in on random threads.

You don’t get that with a small, verified population. And when you don’t have verification, well forever now have effectively psyops intending to influence you.

My thought to reconcile it was all the counter culture.

There was a day in 2003 when literally everyone who had touched a computer applauded without knowing why.

It was the day Iomega stopped producing zip drives because they were finally obsolete.

If you can read it, they can read it. They have root on the company device.

made as few changes as possible to the one Republicans had adopted.

Vote in primaries. And then vote in the general.

Don’t tell other people not to vote, implied or explicit.