Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) had a fiery exchange with reporters Friday about the House’s ongoing dilemma, blaming Democratic members for bringing “chaos to Congress.”...
Donald Trump has dropped a last-resort lawsuit against the judge overseeing his New York fraud trial. The former president's attorneys withdrew their lawsuit against Justice Arthur Engoron, which had been seen as a long-shot attempt to stop his real estate empire from being dismantled after he f...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland said in an interview that aired Sunday that he would resign if asked by President Joe Biden to take action against Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. But he doesn’t think he’ll be put in that position....
Like you, I'm a passionate user of K.Bin but lately, I'm noticing that things are getting kinda stale around here. The most recent thread in this, the top-level magazine on K.Bin, is 4 days old. Many other top 25 magazines are also suffering from a similar lack of fresh content. I run /m/scifi and it's been continuing to grow...
Eh those rules seem dumb and are in some ways... but as someone who moderated a roughly 200 and 250k subscriber subreddits for around 6-7 years, I can say from experience that an insane amount of people just tried using the platform to shotgun links to their bullshit youtube channels or content mill tech blogs.
You'd see one of those links, look at their profile and sure enough they just had a huge list of them firing off the same link to 10-20 subreddits, then the next link, then the next. No discussion, no commenting history in those subreddits for the most part. They were just using them as a way to get clicks and nothing more.
Left unchecked, that shit destroys the quality of a community. I know because the first big sub I grew from about 10k to 250k had been left open to that stuff for years and had totally stagnated. As soon as I started cleaning house the place blew up in numbers and quality of content.
The vast, vast majority of people linking their own off-site content on reddit (in my experience as a mod) was definitely people just spamming. And if you let them do it the subreddits go to hell.
ATLANTA – Republicans have quietly been coming to grips with the likelihood that Donald Trump will keep winning the Republican nomination until he dies if he doesn’t retake the White House next year — and either outcome could cost the GOP down-ballot....
One of the biggest criticisms of Mastodon's technical capabilities involves how limited its search system is. With a new update, everything has changed.
Revealed: Charles Haywood, creator of the Society for American Civic Renewal, has said he might serve as ‘warlord’ at the head of an ‘armed patronage network’
I use NetNewsWire on my iPad and Feeder on my Android phone to read RSS feeds from multiple sites (including Lemmy and Kbin). I also use it to monitor niche sub-reddits so I can give Reddit as little traffic as possible....
In the past week and a half, I've noticed Reddit behaviors starting to try and poison all of the places that people are taking refuge in to get away from the toxicity, myself included. They've started to DDoS Lemmy for a while, which is a Reddit thing to do and what they're notorious of doing whenever they feel they don't like...
Hi! 👋 Here's our #introduction. We're BBC Research & Development; we explore and test new technology to discover how the BBC can best make use of it in the future. For 100 years our engineers have been at the forefront of developments in broadcasting. We're now researching how everyone could get TV & radio via the internet...
Carlos De Oliveira allegedly helped Walt Nauta move boxes around Mar-a-Lago and allegedly had conversations with others about security camera footage there....
Huffmann is definitely coying his idol Elon with the verified account thingy… which he can then use to pressure advertisers into paying more, see engadget.com/x-tells-advertisers-to-spend-1000-pe…
Hard pass on that. Also 100% censorship resistance sounds good at face value until you realize that can easily be construed to mean that nazis are free to run wild there.
I mostly follow people in the art/illustration community so I'm not really seeing what you're complaining about, but to be fair your complaint could be levied against basically every big online community out there right now including the fediverse.
Apparently there's a PR adding the new API that the Artemis dev is already running on a test server, but it's not official to the codebase that major Kbins are running yet.
So seems like we're very close and that should really change things in terms of Kbin apps. Also Artemis is about to launch their public beta as well and from what I understand it's looking pretty nice. Will be great to have an app that supports both Lemmy and Kbin.
The 1776 Gastonia housing development promises to blend patriotism and freedom, honoring the ideals that built this country. Developer Brock Fankhauser calls it a movement. Specifically, 1776 Gastonia is a planned community for people — or rather, "patriots" — 55 and up.
Between this and the huge profit motive the media has in riding this chaos train into the sunset for as long as possible, things definitely aren't gonna change.
Yeah I think this is the Occam’s razor explanation that makes more sense. And why might Reddit be doing such a similar thing so soon after twitter? Spez has said he’s in touch with Elon and admires his business decisions. Simple as that.
Campaign groups have written to officials in nine states urging the former president be barred from running for office for allegedly inciting an insurrection.
I feel like a big part of the appeal of reddit was that it was kind of a sea of anonymous people and mostly sidestepped the cult of personality that thrives on other forms of social media.
This is a big fucking gamble on their part I think.
Teah but it's not like the predominant mode of the website and it's not the same kind of like cult of personality you get with youtube creators. Poem for your sprog is like a novel little thing you randomly run into on the site and are like, ah cute. But if that kinda gimmicky shit was all the site revolved around it would for sure not be the same place anymore and I think it would lose a lot of people.
It wasn't really worth it to pay a subscription for the pixel pal unfortunately and the free version isn't as full featured as it was on Apollo so no dice for me.
Team Trump Mulling Deploying Military to Streets on Day 1 if Elected: Report ( www.thedailybeast.com )
The former president’s allies are developing a plan that would immediately deploy the military to the streets against potential demonstrators.
Trump attorney Sidney Powell pleads guilty in Georgia election subversion case | CNN Politics ( www.cnn.com )
Former Donald Trump attorney Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty in the Georgia election subversion case, one day before her trial was set to start....
Jim Jordan Suffers 2nd House Speaker Vote Defeat ( www.msn.com )
Jordan lost the second round of votes Wednesday when 22 Republicans voted against him -- two more votes against him than Tuesday’s first-round vote.
[News] Senator Calls For Return of Old Mississippi Flag: ‘Our People Died Under That Flag’ ( www.mississippifreepress.org )
Mississippi Sen. Kathy Chism, R-New Albany, said the Legislature should not have retired the Confederate-themed state flag.
[News] McCarthy in fiery exchange with reporter blames Dems for bringing ‘chaos’ with ouster ( thehill.com )
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) had a fiery exchange with reporters Friday about the House’s ongoing dilemma, blaming Democratic members for bringing “chaos to Congress.”...
Trump drops lawsuit against New York fraud judge ( www.rawstory.com )
Donald Trump has dropped a last-resort lawsuit against the judge overseeing his New York fraud trial. The former president's attorneys withdrew their lawsuit against Justice Arthur Engoron, which had been seen as a long-shot attempt to stop his real estate empire from being dismantled after he f...
[News] Attorney General Garland says in interview he'd resign if Biden asked him to take action on Trump ( apnews.com )
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland said in an interview that aired Sunday that he would resign if asked by President Joe Biden to take action against Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. But he doesn’t think he’ll be put in that position....
"It's the content, stupid." - Quick Notes to Supercharge K.Bin ( kbin.social )
Like you, I'm a passionate user of K.Bin but lately, I'm noticing that things are getting kinda stale around here. The most recent thread in this, the top-level magazine on K.Bin, is 4 days old. Many other top 25 magazines are also suffering from a similar lack of fresh content. I run /m/scifi and it's been continuing to grow...
[Opinion Analysis] Some Republicans Worry that a Trump Nomination Could Bring Steep Down-Ballot Losses for the GOP - Tom LoBianco ( themessenger.com )
ATLANTA – Republicans have quietly been coming to grips with the likelihood that Donald Trump will keep winning the Republican nomination until he dies if he doesn’t retake the White House next year — and either outcome could cost the GOP down-ballot....
Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge ( arstechnica.com )
Mastodon's Next Major Release Enables Full-Text Search ( wedistribute.org )
One of the biggest criticisms of Mastodon's technical capabilities involves how limited its search system is. With a new update, everything has changed.
US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network ( www.theguardian.com )
Revealed: Charles Haywood, creator of the Society for American Civic Renewal, has said he might serve as ‘warlord’ at the head of an ‘armed patronage network’
Reddit appears to have neutered RSS feeds
I use NetNewsWire on my iPad and Feeder on my Android phone to read RSS feeds from multiple sites (including Lemmy and Kbin). I also use it to monitor niche sub-reddits so I can give Reddit as little traffic as possible....
Be wary of spiteful Reddit users ( kbin.social )
In the past week and a half, I've noticed Reddit behaviors starting to try and poison all of the places that people are taking refuge in to get away from the toxicity, myself included. They've started to DDoS Lemmy for a while, which is a Reddit thing to do and what they're notorious of doing whenever they feel they don't like...
[News] RFK Jr's super PAC is mostly funded by a GOP megadonor who spent millions on Trump and bankrolled an effort to build a border wall in Texas ( www.businessinsider.com )
Text in case of paywall:...
BBC Launches A Mastodon Instance ( social.bbc )
Hi! 👋 Here's our #introduction. We're BBC Research & Development; we explore and test new technology to discover how the BBC can best make use of it in the future. For 100 years our engineers have been at the forefront of developments in broadcasting. We're now researching how everyone could get TV & radio via the internet...
News: Trump charged with seeking to delete security footage in documents case ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Carlos De Oliveira allegedly helped Walt Nauta move boxes around Mar-a-Lago and allegedly had conversations with others about security camera footage there....
Reddit Tests is Own Verification Markers with ‘Official’ Profile Tags ( www.socialmediatoday.com )
Huffmann is definitely coying his idol Elon with the verified account thingy… which he can then use to pressure advertisers into paying more, see engadget.com/x-tells-advertisers-to-spend-1000-pe…
Time to ditch Twitter/X, what are you guys switching to? ( kbin.social )
He says X is for freedom of speech, and it is an everything app...
Boost for Lemmy is coming! Same author as Boost for reddit, I double checked just to be sure, it's the same author! ( media.kbin.social )
Threads is rolling out its Following feed ( www.theverge.com )
Now you can scroll through posts from only people you follow.
News: Mask Off: DeSantis Staffer Reportedly Shares Video of DeSantis and Giant Nazi Symbol ( newrepublic.com )
“Calling DeSantis a fascist isn’t hyperbole, it’s defining what he is.”
[Analysis] 'People are hungry for more choices': Inside the Green Party's push for 2024 ( abcnews.go.com )
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Censor-ception! Reddit user's post in r/place about admin censorship, is taken down, so they made a 2nd post about the 1st post being taken down, which was also taken down...
This is the user’s 3rd post. Let’s see how long before that is also taken down! 🤣...
New housing development in Gastonia requires ‘patriots’ to fly American flag ( www.wfae.org )
The 1776 Gastonia housing development promises to blend patriotism and freedom, honoring the ideals that built this country. Developer Brock Fankhauser calls it a movement. Specifically, 1776 Gastonia is a planned community for people — or rather, "patriots" — 55 and up.
Can We Please Make Presidential Elections Shorter and Less Stupid? ( www.thedailybeast.com )
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Coincidence that Reddit and Twitter are taking the same approaches to monetization? ( lemmy.ml )
U.S. states urged to block Donald Trump from 2024 run ( www.newsweek.com )
Campaign groups have written to officials in nine states urging the former president be barred from running for office for allegedly inciting an insurrection.
Reddit's Contributor Program could earn you real money for your Reddit karma ( www.androidauthority.com )
Reddit could be working on a Contributor program, letting top contributors earn real-world money from the gold and karma they receive.
Reddit kills awards and coins ( old.reddit.com )
It Still Hurts 😢 ( lemmy.world )