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tuning its algorithm to promote the most divisive material possible. Because that is what will increase engagement

But at the same time in every case I described on Lemmy an experience not maximizing engagement by maximizing conflict, I was downvoted to hell's basement. Despite two of three modern social media experience models being too aimed for that, that'd be Facebook-like and Reddit-like, excluding Twitter-like (which is unfortunately vulnerable to bots). I mean, there's less conflict on fucking imageboards, those were at some point considered among most toxic places in the interwebs.

(Something-something Usenet-like namespaces instead of existing communities tied to instances, something-something identities too not tied to instances and being cryptographic, something-something subjective moderation (subscribing to moderation authorities you choose, would feel similar to joining a group, one can even have in the UI a few combinations of the same namespace and a few different moderation authorities for it), something-something a bigger role of client-side moderation (ignoring in the UI those people you don't like). Ideally what really gets removed and not propagated to anyone would be stuff like calls for mass murders, stolen credentials, gore, real rape and CP. The "posting to a namespace versus posting to an owned community" dichotomy is important. The latter causes a "capture the field" reaction from humans.)

It doesn't come up in search on Lemmy, at least everything by "Adam Kadyrov" is about some special forces training event or him beating someone.

If a link in Russian will do (Google Translate?), then https://www.gazeta.ru/social/news/2025/06/30/26158466.shtml , maybe?

The wedding also involved shooting into the air from a G-Wagon and polarized sunglasses (OK, that part is really not that strange, it's basic convenience and fashion everywhere around Caucasus ; just wanted to communicate the atmosphere).

I don't know, it's Russian news mostly, just impressed plenty of people enough to say "yeah, this is bad, time to flee" (because this basically means that people in power don't expect anything even resembling rule of law in the next few decades ; some sort of thief feudalism, like the "political system" Gypsies have when left to themselves, and I don't hate Gypsies, but I also don't like a few things associated with their cultures).

That's 1/85 of the watch that Ramzan Kadyrov's son sported on his wedding.

Or one can just compare it to the share of Google's profits in California.

You mean leave Microsoft live? A strange thought.

Its hilarious to me that people think that the founding fathers, who ostensibly designed this entire country specifically for the benefit of the land-owning gentry, would hate maga politics.

I think they would. Land-owning gentry culture had one visible advantage over most of modern political culture - if you make a rule, then you follow it, and if you say a word, you mean it. It was important, people would fight on duels for these things about them being put in doubt. Not that they all would really act this way, of course.

Differences between MAGA and Democrats for this purpose are not important.

I would bet every dollar I have that if the founding fathers snapped back to life right now that they would be no different than the maga morons or libertarians that want to run this country into the ground

I think they would find some similarities with libertarians for the reason stated above. Some.

But in general I think they'd disown whatever in the modern world is ascribed to them.

I'd really prefer India on my side, not being Sunni and all that

Compared to before, no, there aren’t.

Well, that can be said about Greeks and Armenians in Crimea as well as Crimean Tatars. That's because after Stalin's forced movement to Kazakhstan (which is barbaric act, of course) or wherever, when descendants of those people were allowed to return, they were more likely to move elsewhere in the union. And after 1991 Greeks would often repatriate, well, to Greece, changing the ethnic character of the whole Russian and Ukrainian Black Sea coast, and Crimean Tatars to Turkey.

I think you also underestimate the role of Sevastopol. Purely due to strategic importance there'd be people coming from all parts of the empire and the union, and the "melting pot culture" there was Russian.

There has been an ongoing genocide since the tsarist times,

That's a weird way to say this, before Crimea becoming part of the Russian Empire the actual Crimean Khanate didn't exist for too long. It seems you have a misconception of Crimean Tatars being some sort of the native population of Crimea. They were not. They were a nomad vassal state to the Ottoman Empire, conquerors themselves. They weren't the majority there ethnically under that khanate either.

That’s why people are “wary” of Russia - because it is a genocidal state since time immemorial.

That's gross from someone who's likely a US-American or a European. Also "time immemorial" doesn't quite mean what you seem to think.

One would think on the decline of democracy and accompanying problems you should gain faith in democracy.

But somehow it's always the opposite.

The less scientific progress there is, the more people "lose faith in it", the less peace there is, the more people are skeptical of it, the less equality there is, the less people value it.

I think it's not natural, rather an illustration of covert media propaganda being very powerful.

I'd prefer wooden floor.

Especially the column in the middle, just cover it with wood and add various hooks, a transformer table (closed normally, open when you want to sip tea without display glow near you) and maybe something to make the space less open while sleeping. I dunno, a cloth instead of a wall.

And if this doesn't have a window, maybe not too good.

Tell me, why are there no more Tatars in Crimea?

There are, in fact, Tatars in Crimea.

Sorry for my tone too, I get dysphoric-defensive very easily (as have been illustrated).

Federated application for a map with markers and notes?

It seems for me that this would be too narrow a purpose.

Maybe a general-purpose public notification map. With some functionality allowing to separate markers by their authors and by tags. Or it can be spammed with bogus markers. By tags - well, for it to be general-purpose. By authors - because moderation can't be left to instance admins.

And, of course, I'm personally for separation of moderation, instance ownership, identities and hosting, but my own toy attempt showed me that the logic of checking the chain of privilege delegation is kinda PITA. That is, separating identities from instances is not that hard. And communities. What's hard is the community owner delegating rights to other identities, and in general authorized actions. It's a task of determining which privileges does an identity currently possess, and how does it affect its own actions on the community, and in which order should those be processed ... Everything is harder than it seems. Sad.

So federation is fine LOL.

People don't need reasons to do things gross or disturbing or whatever for you in their own space.

And the fact that you are continually doubling down shows me that you likely need your hard drives and notebooks checked.

Thankfully that's not your concern, and would get you in jail if you tried to do that yourself. Also I'm too lazy for my porn habits to be secret enough, LOL.

Please don’t respond again unless you are telling me what country you are from so I can report you to the appropriate authorities.

I don't think you understand. You're the fiend here. The kind of obnoxious shit that thinks it's in their right to watch after others' morality.

I wonder, what if I'd try to report you and someone would follow through (unlikely, of course, without anything specific to report), hypothetically, which instances of stalking and privacy violations they'd find?

You really seem the kind.

I've never been in the USA, but my cousin lives there, so she had legal practice connected to softening terms or whatever, I don't remember, for such sex offenders.

Say, there was a story when a guy decided to take a shit on the car of someone who insulted him, and didn't see that there was a kid in that car. So the intended offense was much less than what, eh, he actually got.

Unacceptable. We should make people hosting games responsible for everything said on them, so that only big companies with staff for moderation and lawsuits could host games.

/s

... and the rock cried out "no hiding place" ...

Sorry, this is just funny.

No. That’s not a good enough excuse to potentially be abusing children.

It's good enough for the person whose opinion counts, your doesn't. And there's no such potential.

I can’t think of a single good reason to draw those kinds of things. Like at all.

Too bad.

Please, give me a single good reason.

To reinforce that your opinion doesn't count is in itself a good reason. The best of them all really.

Because morally it's not your fucking concern what others are doing in supposed privacy of their personal spaces.

It seems to be a very obvious thing your nose doesn't belong there and you shouldn't stick it there.

But no, I’m not gonna let you get away that easily.

I don't need any getting away from you, you're nothing.