People were worried there for a while — did Iran just ground every single one of our airliners??? Turns out, nope. We did that. To ourselves
@jalefkowit to p0wn the libs no doubt
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Literally nothing is stopping you from creating communities or even an entire instance that follows that principle…
If you want to do it, then do it.
And if people want it, they’ll participate.
But even if they do, I don’t think you’ll get the result you expect and want
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So your probelm with the platforms is not the platforms themselves, but people? Because the mods running communities here aren’t too different from the refit communities.
As for your second point, you want karma farmers to run the communities?
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10 Reasons Chuck Schumer Should Not Be Senate Majority Leader. He:
1. defends Israel
2. is hand in glove with Wall Street, corps, PACs
3. refuses Medicare for All
4. distains progressives
5. supports the MI Complex
6. won't dismantle ICE
7. voted for the Iraq War
8. opposed Obama's Iran nuclear agreement
9. gives in to Trump
10. won't fight corporate-power driven inequality & environmental destruction
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/should-chuck-schumer-be-senate-majority-leader
Who plays these idiots in the movie version, d’you think? They’re probably too old for the parts now, but in my head it’s Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly
Honestly, Ferrell and Reilly in makeup and having a fake face-lift wouldn't suit classic impersonations of these blokes.
However, the extra nonsense would help drive home to pure ridiculousness of people like Markwayne Mullin and fucking Sean Duffy in these government roles.
@jalefkowit slow news week, huh
@BathysphereHat damn, this is a banger
@evan Right? I've seen him live, he was great.
@W6KME Ha, didn't realize that they weren't built to last... but makes sense.
@W6KME Ah, interesting, yeah, looking at the HISTORIC (not modern recreation) photos they originally were the engine/wheel and a couple of flimsy decks, lol.
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Everything about this artifact is a “wait, what?” kind of deal:
* A gun that fits inside the handlebar of a bicycle
* A world where a big concern of bicyclists was being attacked by dogs
* A world where the appropriate response for a bicyclist being attacked by dogs would be to pull a gun out of their handlebar and start shootin’
Herman Brevete: A Pepperbox Hidden in Your Bicycle Handlebars
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Lemmy is copying the worst feature that ruined Reddit
I’m splitting this into two parts. First identifying the issue. And second my personal idea for a solution. I’m hoping for a lot of discussion so please be clear which part you are responding to.
Part 1: The problem
Reddit as a platform has many flaws. Obviously being a corporation means they’re terrible no matter what. But their platform is also flawed. Even if Reddit was 100% community owned the platform would still be flawed. The number one thing that is ruining Reddit are the tyrannical mods.
Each community on Reddit is a dictatorship. Whoever is arbitrarily in charge of a community has full unrestricted power to do whatever they want. The people who are actually creating the content and sharing it are totally at their whim. I understand that modding is a difficult and thankless job, but toxic mods ruined Reddit and Lemmy will do the same if it’s not addressed.
Lemmy’s answer is to allow people to create their own instances. Don’t like the mods at World? Go make your own Lemmy, with blackjack and hookers. But that’s not sufficient. It takes years to build up a community to have enough people for meaningful discussion to happen, and nearly all communities or instances fail. We absolutely need a way for mods to answer to the users.
Part 2: My solution
My solution is simple. Lemmy is built on the community. Everyone helps run it. Therefore mods are elected by the users who generate the highest upvoted content in a community.
Elections should happen on a schedule and, if a community is particularly upset with a mod, a vote of no confidence can be taken.
I understand that this will be a huge undertaking. But I truly believe that we need to fix this issue for Lemmy to thrive long term. Or else we’ll just end up with another Reddit.
![y0kai [he/him]](https://anarchaos.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com/users/5w/zT/5wzTKzFWQVJmUey.jpg "y0kai [he/him]")
far too easy to game a system like that and just because someone makes good posts doesn’t mean they want to be saddled with the burden modding. You said yourself its a difficult and thankless job. How about the community just votes on mods who volunteer and allow an option for a recall vote?
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If you need a bit of historical oddity to cleanse your palate after the last couple of days, here is a story from 1876 about six Irishmen escaping from Australia
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How come I never get invited to the good parties
https://slate.com/life/2026/11/sex-politics-election-midterms-2026-democrats-los-angeles.html
This is without considering what the owners of big networks might do to the algorithms to push their agenda.
It's not 100 percent effective but I think there are a lot of "smart people" pundits, journalists, writers, artists who think they aren't being manipulated ... but they are.
I do think people will adapt, but in the gap there are many lucrative bamboozlments to get done. People run scams and advertise because sometimes, just enough it works.
@futurebird I think most modern influence runs on spam economics (because it is spam, in all but name); it's so cheap it doesn't need anything close to 100% effectiveness. Even 1% effectiveness, or a fraction thereof, is plenty.
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before Everything Is Fine dog we had...
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Berserk of Gluttony Season 2 | Teaser Visual
@AlliFlowers At least it seems river cruises are NOT being stuffed inside a large tin can with 5000 to 7500 of your closest friends.
@ai6yr That's what I like most about them.
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Friends, I'm working on a playlist of songs that ask you if you are ready for something or just ready in general. I need some help identifying more songs with readiness checks.
@evan "Uno," by Little Big
