gsfraley @ gsfraley @lemmy.world

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It's a rough definition, but astroturfing is usually rooted in goals separate from or even counter to the stated movement. E.g. in your example outside support for a labor movement wouldn't necessarily be astroturfing if it's genuinely supporting labor. A fake labor movement sprouted by the companies themselves to take the wind out of the sails of real labor movements would.

Maybe it's the random 2?

I agree, I have some hope as common folk get more and more tuned in, especially as obscure runs like the Wisconsin Supreme Court judgeship and votes against the Ohio constitutional amendment process change result in overwhelming positive outcomes.

It's not...? It's literally just another social media site, it doesn't hook into ActivityPub or any cross-broadcast protocol. I don't know why you're throwing around the word "fediverse" here.

Fucking LOL

I mean, they're all shit, but I found this part interesting:

McCarthy’s outside counsel earlier this week sent a cease and desist letter to the person soliciting influencers to bash Gaetz and claiming to be doing so on behalf of McCarthy, according to a copy of the letter obtained by CNN

Which to me, reads like Gaetz is setting up a social media false flag on McCarthy's side, which is an insane level to stoop to for pointless in-party infighting.

Note that this is likely a good thing, the new maps are being drawn by a special master to give black folk more representation. The "state" that's objecting here is Alabama lawmakers.

As someone who has exclusively bought games for download this generation, it ain't economical lol

I mean, I get it, but there's value in paying for support and updates, and it's untenable for an organization to do that for free. I'm optimistic for software running under this model, I'd 1000% love to go back to the pay once per major version model, but "pay once forever" software leaves some unanswered questions.

Maybe don't make the Lemmyverse have to sit through your cringey mental break? It's the polite thing to do?

I know right? I can't quite put my finger on why, but it gives me "Fault of Amigara" vibes

Is Mozilla 100% forced to comply with this? What's to stop them from dropping their French presence and keep serving the browser unaltered on the public web? Do they also then get added to the ban list?

The thought behind this is alarming and worrying, but the mechanism of action seems shoddy and not thought out at all.

Thanks, yo

https://youtu.be/-cCXsqiMqxo

Christ, let me use my favorite app in peace instead of going "tsk tsk" and whinging about it when no one's stopping you from using other apps.

We're back, baby! Immediately resubscribed to Ultra.

Anyone with a Mac

Not to mention it's still on twitter.com, and changing it to another domain is a borderline impossible amount of work to do for any social media site that size.