Zaktor @ Zaktor @lemmy.world

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Ok, what environmental benefit did he gain for us from compromising on his executive authority, Mr. Politics Understander?

Approval of drilling projects is an executive decision. The president doesn't need to compromise with anyone in making those decisions.

I mean, he doesn't really have direct power to control the court, but the court is vulnerable and responsive to public opinion and he could do more on that front. We have justices themselves saying the court is acting unconstitutionally and Biden's putting out statements worried about how expansion would "politicize" the court. The more worried they are with their legitimacy the less bold they are in their rulings.

I think lots of Democrats could beat Trump, but none of them could beat Biden in a primary. He's the incumbent and he's just not disliked enough for people to abandon the sitting president.

I thought Biden and Bernie were both too old in 2020, but people could entirely consistently consider 78 (Bernie 2020) "not too old" and 81 (Biden 2024) "too old". Both of them have gotten older since Bernie was being considered for the role of president.

It's getting downvoted for the "crazy left wing" part, not the "what has Biden done wrong" part.

My expectation is that Threads will be too permissive with rules rather than too strict. They're pretty happy to have LibsOfTikTok on there so they can make money from the stochastic terrorism. The problem I see is that their size means defederation for insufficient moderation isn't a real threat, so federating instances are stuck with per-user moderation and will be overwhelmed with Threads trolls.

I suppose it ends up being "their rules are our rules", but in a "there are no rules and you'll accept it" sort of way, rather than "adhere to our community standards or we'll take away 90% of your users".

Yes, I'm talking about what Threads users may see. It's not clear how the Threads Algorithm will evaluate and prioritize showing Mastodon toots, but even less clear how it will prioritize message-board-like Lemmy content. It may not ever show them because it's very possible it will either filter or devalue non-microblogging post types to fit with its native format. Whether or not they technically Federate is only half the question because they have the Algorithm deciding what you actually see.

And with Threads Algorithm controlling what you see, it's not even clear that subscribing would show you them. This is a much more meaningful decision for the Mastodon instances.

I'm not real sure how much the Threads Algorithm is going to pass through Mastodon content (and even less sure if it will even be able to pass through Lemmy content). I think the much more valuable aspect is you can pitch your Threads friends that they can move to the Fediverse and actually get to choose what content they see rather than which influencers paid Meta to fill up your feed.

Especially since a federated Mastodon server (since that's the clearer peer service) means you can actually decide which Threads users you see rather than Trusting the Algorithm^TM. That's a pretty strong pitch to get people to migrate once they're sick of their feed just being 85% brands and influencers paying for reach.

I'm more concerned with the expected lack of Threads moderation making a lot of work for admins who need to continually ban individual Threads users with no hope of the originating instance policing itself.

They'll avoid the problem in favor of short term benefit. Any belief I had that the Democratic insiders had a long-term masterplan went out the window with how little they've done to pump up Harris. I don't even want her to be an eventual nominee, but I thought they'd be purposefully building her as the trusted heir apparent. Instead they just dumped no-win issues on her while making her mostly invisible in the administration's wins.