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Rather than introspection, they’ll blame the new digg and revamp the UI again and/or add AI moderation.

Most other services are passively exploitative like you’re describing. I can at least see an argument for that being a trade-off: using a “free” service in exchange for profiting from your data.

reddit does this too, but on top of that is also actively threatening to ban users for voting. That’s just using the platform as intended.

As you noted, most of these services are hostile in ways that go unnoticed by the userbase. This is markedly more hostile than that, which is I think the point of the comment above. In an internet of services that are shitty toward users, reddit’s a bit extra shitty toward theirs.

If someone sees a bunch of people celebrating, mocking, and/or expressing apathy about someone’s death and responds by assuming all those people are evil instead of spending 15 seconds to search or ask why, that’s on them. If someone is totally oblivious of the other politically motivated murders that have happened recently, that’s on them.

Relying on social media entirely for one’s news is a choice. That level of ignorance is a choice. This behavior isn’t “critical to understand;” it’s a lazy choice that deserves to be called out and mocked.

Outrage? Most people I know are just eagerly awaiting the imminent good news.

Seems like a clunky truncation of “the Chicago suburbs”

You’re totally right. This video’s nearly three month’s old, but could just as easily have been filmed today given how little’s been done to stop this shit.

Bluesky not x, but yeah.

Planning this as college football season begins seems like a massive oversight. This is how you wind up with Oklahoma taking over Texas.