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voidr | karma 697 | avg karma 1.65 · 2023-10-20 02:25:11

Dystopian centralised internet at its worst.

Meanwhile on Apple News I can ready that according to the Independent: Ukraine has made yet another 'breakthrough'. How are these guys not in Moscow already with all these wins and breakthroughs? Russia should be dissolved by now because according to western media: Ukraine wins all the time.

I don't think having central entities moderate the world solves anything, they can more easily be coerced by a government or people with a lot of power, I would just let people believe what they want to believe.

The "old internet" was much better where you just followed whoever you wanted to believe.

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gumballindie | karma 2663 | avg karma 1.25 · 2023-10-20 02:58:50

> The "old internet" was much better where you just followed whoever you wanted to believe.

That’s still an option. Twitter and facebook arent the only social networks you know.

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voidr | karma 697 | avg karma 1.65 · 2023-10-20 06:26:13

Issue is that a lot of the good sources solely use controlled platforms like YouTube where you can't even use words like "suicide", which normalises this nonsense, I understand that not everyone wants to watch a video about "rape", "suicide", weapons and murder, however what is happening today is ridiculous.

The other issue is that these big platforms are all American which means they will enforce American sensibilities like having it okay to show incredibly scantily clothed people where not much is left to the imagination, but going crazy if a nipple is shown.

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20after4 | karma 1564 | avg karma 2.03 · 2023-10-20 07:22:35

Don't you know the nipple is the root of all evil.

lakomen | karma 728 | avg karma 0.89 · 2023-10-20 12:05:13

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huhuli | karma -2 | avg karma -0.4 · 2023-10-20 12:34:56

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ben_w | karma 20467 | avg karma 1.69 · 2023-10-20 06:27:20

> Ukraine has made yet another 'breakthrough'. How are these guys not in Moscow already with all these wins and breakthroughs?

While I, too, disapprove of the adjective treadmill that uses ever greater superlatives for increasingly minor things: war is usually a hard grind, one needs very specific breakthroughs to make a noticeable difference to the map when front-line is so wide.

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