Damn, that's scary. I'm next door, in purple-ish Georgia, surrounded by cray-cray Florida, Alabama, & S. Carolina. And now Tennessee had lost the plot, too. I'm looking hard for some source of optimism.
FWIW, this is kinda happening right now, albeit in a sort of "innocent" garage project sort of way. There are mods for Skyrim that take the voice work created by skilled actors, and use it to generate convincing additional dialog that they never consented to nor got paid for. Laura Baily is already seeing herself being AI'd by her own fans.
And this is with homemade software. Wait until the good stuff comes out.
Russia is the largest country on the planet, with boundless natural resources. All they need to do is learn how to keep their armies within those massive borders, and they would be everyone's favorite trading partner. Instead, they do ... this. They don't need to die. They just need to go home.
I think that which 250k migrated will eventually end up making quite a significant dent. It isn't the technophobic lurkers that make up the Lemmy early adopters.
Given its much smaller user base, it's a lot more likely that a human will see your post before it scrolls off of page 1 on Lemmy. There's a little less futility to posting
Agreed. As others have pointed out, voting helps to elevate higher quality posts (even if it doesn't always work that way), but karma takes that imperfect process to its ridiculous extreme.
See? This is Lemmy at its finest, where a lack of (displayed) karma encourages people to just be their honest selves!