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If that's the US... keep in mind that the distance between the US and Russia is... 53 miles. Excluding Alaska, the distance between Chukotka and Washington, is under 1100 miles.

a fifth of the population of Germany

A 20% of 84% eligible voters, or about 17% eligible voters, or about 15% of the population.

Keep in mind that if the turnout had been like the US2024's 64%, that result could have been anywhere between 0% and 26%, depending on who decided not to vote.

That's after all the manipulation from Musk and Russia. A lot of those people would act as surprised and betrayed as some in the US have over the past month. For starters, the AfD co-leader, an anti-immigrant pro-Nazi eurosceptic anti-democratic fascist Musky party that's pushing traditional family values... has herself an immigrant same-sex partner with whom she's raising two kids. Makes me think of a Serena Waterford case. 🤦

Serious question: radicalize in what way?

I generally skip ALL propaganda videos longer than 10 seconds, no matter the orientation or product advertised. It's my BS detector from years of watching TV as a kid. (Only exception is when I want to see the latest trends in ad techniques, and analyze them).

I honestly wonder how does a radicalization process look like. 🤔

I'm still using RSS. YouTube lives off ads/subscriptions, they don't care how you find the videos.

(the bell) and it doesn't even fucking work 100% of the time. I subscribe to and have notifications enabled for about 13 channels that upload every single day; I only get notified like once a month

Do you have it set to "All", or to "Personalized"?

I don't really care about most notifications, so I leave them on "Personalized", which lets the algorithm decide when to send one. The few channels I've set to "All", seem to notify me every time.

YouTube prefers you use the home feed

I'm not all that sure; don't they get the same amount of money from ads no matter how you find them? And they get a hefty chunk on "Join" and "Thanks" payments (a 30% cut, IIRC), which people are less likely to spend on non-subscribed channels.

Was the "feedback" a 15-minute long clip of "f u" on a loop? 🤭

Ultimately, outside of friends and followers, all media discovery is a popularity contest, can't really discover the least popular content... and it's usually for a good reason.

Threads is not a perfect solution, but I think it does have elements going in the right direction. Mallory doesn't have a "page" like a subreddit, there is no group of mods with power over the whole conversation; even if multiple people were to share an account, even if they added an "automod" bot... they still only have direct power over direct replies, not sub-replies. Astroturfing, gang upvoting, and bot saturation are still a thing, but the ability to shape conversations by selective pruning and cherry picking, is much more limited. Mallory's options are: either to let people disagree, or to create multiple fake accounts, or to fall off the popularity contest.

Then, each comment/post/repost is its own ecosystem, the only common mod ruleset is from "daddy Meta"... which has its own issues, but not nearly the issues of a subreddit.

At the end of the day, all communication platforms fall somewhere between "single person dictatorship" (static web pages) and "anything goes" (4chan). There is no magic bullet, so far.

IMHO, right now Threads is more chaotic than Reddit or Lemmy, but has the tools to avoid becoming a 4chan or even a Facebook (somewhat ironically).

That is true, but only works at a single thread level:

• Mallory posts some misinformation - A
• Alice replies with a rebuttal - B
• Bob replies to Alice with further fact-checking - C
• Mallory hides Alice's comment B, leaving Bob's C only visible to Alice
• Eve adds a supporting reply - D
• Charlie replies to Eve with a rebuttal - E
• Eve can hide Charlie's E, but Mallory can't

Now Mallory has to decide whether to:

1. Hide D+E, losing Eve's support D
2. Hope for Eve to hide E
3. Leave Eve's support D with Charlie's rebuttal E visible

If Mallory keeps hiding replies, her post A will have less engagement, with a notification of "Some additional replies are unavailable".

Meanwhile... Alice doesn't need to stop rebutting A:

• Alice reposts Mallory's A as a quote with her own comment - B(A)
• Mallory can do nothing about B(A) since it's under Alice's control
• Alice replies to her own B(A) with a quote of Bob's C - C2
• If Alice got to see Charlie's E, she can also quote it - E2

If people like Alice's rebuttal, then it can get more engagement than Mallory's misinformation, which makes the algorithm show it to more people.

So while the system can create echo chambers at a single thread level, as long as a post is open to comments and resharing, which are essential to spreading it, anyone can also grab it and create their own chamber around it.

It's usual to see these kinds of reposts, with separate discussions, sometimes linking to each other and creating larger discussion pools.

Have they changed the title?

Trump fires top US general CQ Brown in shake-up at Pentagon

People who might be inclined to challenge this, are being replaced as we speak:

Trump fires top US general CQ Brown in shake-up at Pentagon

Hegseth fires Navy’s top officer, Air Force No. 2

Facebook has a "real name" policy. It doesn't work, some people create plausibly sounding fake accounts, while others get banned for not sounding plausible enough. Chinese social networks require official ID registration, they're still full of trolls, bullying, and fake accounts. The EU is working on an expanded Digital ID service suite... theoretically it could be done well, but based on past experiences, I remain somewhat skeptical.