The down the rabbit hole youtube channel is really great for mildly obscure interesting topics.
Killing a giant (Reddit)
It's understandable to be defeatist about the recent Reddit protests. The recent subreddit blackouts weren't 100% popular and similar attempts to migrate away from Twitter have hit road bumps....
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/38559
> I've been seeing a lot of angst and emotion on the Reddit migration, which results in either defeatism or blind optimism. In the end, it probably doesn't matter, but I wanted to do more fact-based research into the subject. > > I put my findings and my analysis into what it would actually take to kill Reddit, based on the deaths of Digg and MySpace. tl;dr it's a lot less dramatic than most people would think.
Most European territories serve the USA’s geopolitical goals. Sanctions against Russia right now are part of that. There’s nothing moral about it. It’s simply a service to the USA for being in its sphere of influence. There is nothing, not a single shred of integrity in that.
European countries must send a strong message that war in Europe is not worth it... hence sanctions. They are not dooing it because they "serve the USA’s geopolitical goals".
WikiLeaks co-founder’s lawyers say they will seek to appeal, as Amnesty International says decision is a ‘travesty of justice’
Headteachers say inspectors are ignoring or dismissing the harsh realities of Covid in schools
I think it is broadly ok if your investment doesn't exploit others.
This could be investing in something a community can share like:
- FOSS projects
- Community gardens
- Food banks
- Non profit orgs
However, like other people have said it is practical to invest in some things for yourself:
- an emergency fund
- Land you can live on (to protect against unpredictable rents)
- even some stock and cryptocurrency is acceptable to some degree (imo) as in many countries large savings are required for old age.
Tha card by Arnold Bennet https://librivox.org/the-card-by-arnold-bennett/
The count of Monte cristo by Alexander Dumas: https://librivox.org/the-count-of-monte-cristo-by-alexandre-dumas/
CEOs want workers back at their desks. Employees and the virus have other plans.
It might be a good idea for journalists and other targeted people to have multiple burner phones for different activities.
That way if your personal device is infected itnisnkess likely to compromise your human rights work.
You would probably want to turn off any phone you are not using as they are able to access the camera and mic.
NSO Group software can record your calls, copy your messages and secretly film you
I don't think they are just for show. There are differences in which policies each party try to pass. The GOP is clearly fascist. The democratic party are clearly not fascist.
I don't really agree that Brave should not be used because of a toxic fanbase.
I think the best reason not to use Brave is that they are a marketing/advertising company that claims to give their users privacy. Advertising companies will always have an incentive to invade privacy as it increase add revenues. Brave is just copying Google's business model with extra steps.
Extinction Rebellion: Jury acquits protesters despite 'no defence in law' direction
Six activists are acquitted of causing criminal damage despite a judge saying they had "no defence".
I still use reddit as it has content lemmy doesn't.
But yeah I think there is a lot of bots/shills that manipulate the conversation on reddit that doesn't really happen on lemmy. This will happen on lemmy too if it gets big enough.
Federation is also cool. If lemmy does end up full of bots/shills then someone could make a new instance with some new rules that help to reduce the number of bots (e.g. answer some questions about a post to comment or something).