It’s impossible really to say. This was their official code citation:

Over the past few months, we have carefully recomputed historical votes on posts and comments to remove outdated, unnecessary rules.

I mean on the face of it, maybe they were telling the truth?

But they are a for profit corporation, and that year forward was when the enshittification really began. I guess I just have little reason to believe that they didn’t just alter the algorithm to make it look like there was more engagement than there was.

I figured most people here knew about it, but also just as many probably forgot about it, at least deep in the memory banks. ;)

Yeah that would be the hard part. I don’t know how to do that either. Reddit used to have auto-mod tools but nothing like that exists here to easily automate it.

I may just archive the flag idea until a newer version of Lemmy software adds those capabilities.

What absolutely astonishes me is that the entirety of the country has complete amnesia of the years 2017-2021, as if we’re not about to relive that shitty period x10.

The next 4 years in the US are going to bring instability to the forefront.

US debt to GDP ratio is already an insane 120% . At some point along this path of ever increasing debt, people are going to see that USD is no longer safe and choose other currencies, or possibly crypto. Bank runs tend to happen all of a sudden when no one expects it. The same situation could theoretically happen in the US.

The reserve dominance shouldn’t be relied upon when we could simply raise a small amount of revenue with taxes on the wealthy to balance the books.

Tariffs are a necessary tool, and can be positive in the long run to create revenue and lower trade deficits. They are a regressive tax, but there is some positive to making some imported goods more expensive in the US. It does discourage companies from importing everything. In moderation targeted tariffs can be good.

The debt is projected to be $50 trillion by 2034, so revenue does need to be increased somehow. Otherwise on the current track the US will be unable to service it’s debt.

Ideally they should just tax billionaires, but politically this is a lot easier for them.

The problem with tariffs is moreso on what they’re going to do with the revenue. The surplus will almost assuredly be used to give tax cuts to the rich, and the debt will likely be $50 trillion by 2028, not 2034.

I believe that was the British until the 19th century. I could find of no such thing for US commissions, although I am not all that versed on the history.

I mostly just picked the poster because it looked neat ;)

There are some punctuation errors in your title. It should read:

Plex is “overhauling” its apps with a redesign and under-the-hood “upgrades”

Those who use Plex to access personal media will find that their libraries are in a dedicated [hidden] tab, while the Watchlist will take up prime real estate in the top navigation section. Plex says it also streamlined the user menu for quick access to things like your profile, friends and watch history.

So they’re hiding the entire point of Plex deep in the menu and promoting things that make them money. Enshittification.

Also as a side note if anyone would like to help moderate this community please message me. I’ll try to respond in a day or two.

reddit was open source as well.

was

That’s not a constructive approach. Doing nothing just means Republicans completely disasemble what remains of democracy in the US.

Please spread, cross post, share, whatever; wherever you can. People should have input into the democratic policy platform, but they’re so brazen as to say the “center is where we need to be”.

These people, these few hundred people, are a big problem with the democratic party.

We need to take the narrative back from centrists. It can be done by telling the DNC what to do, not the other way around.

yes very true, but please don’t do that, lol. do it here —> !politicalhumor@lemmy.world

!politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world

Community for political discussion: !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world , mods please feel free to post this anywhere if you’d like to avoid the political posts :)

One must delete facebook and lawyer up before one can ascend to the realm of #4. Profit.

I completely agree.

I liked askhistorians, as I felt like the moderation added to the quality a lot, but /r/science never seemed to achieve that level of quality. Though when they did start with the heavy moderation/clear rules with tags (I think flair was a later addition) it was a marked improvement off what it was before.

I’m open to suggestions, and I’ll just leave the draft rules up for awhile to get feedback.

Project 2025?

I pinned this. I don’t know if that’s the right thing to do or not, but I feel like being impartial is a trait honored only by the left and not the right, and look at where that’s gotten us as a country.

Perhaps it’s time to say to hell with impartiality, and call out poor policy for what it is. Wherever and whenever.

Damn it does. I mean giving everyone options to choose career and tech schools in lieu of public schools could actually improve education, but everything else there seems terrible.