Respectfully, your comment continues to say nothing about who is behind it and where the money comes from… WHAT group of people don’t you find to be problematic, and based on what? Who are the people that you don’t have a problem with?
You just linked a subreddit… on Lemmy?
Anyone think these scattered recent attempts at protest might be astroturfed by the right and the listed website might be a trap to create a mailing list of targets for the right to monitor?
Need clarity on organizers and money behind these protests and if any established groups like DSA, Indivisible, ETC. are attached.
Edit: A bit more potentially from USA Today. So next question is if anyone knows Kay Evert directly and can speak to their legitimacy in the space? Trust, but verify - We don’t need to fight within our own movement, but we also don’t need to follow anyone blindly.
Labor strike on weekdays
Consumer purchasing strike on weekends
Also, labor strike on a Saturday was being floated… Travel to state capitol on a weekday at noon? Agree with some others speculating that these are either baby steps of a desperate movement forming with growing pains (fine) or deliberate astroturfing bullshit meant to sap energy, sow confusion and make people disengage. With the calculated and frantic pace of the other heritage foundation/2025 moves to date, wouldn’t surprise me if this was the right.
Anyone have any back story on the organizers and money backing any of these recent protest efforts?
Sure, the app that nailed this might separate itself as the popular option for zeitgeist to grab onto, but then it distributes users to many servers (as the app itself is an aggregator that’s agnostic to server. But yes, rush of that single app becoming “Lemmy” in many people’s minds.
But you likely need to treat migration and understanding nuance of the tech as two different user journeys. Rather than solving problem though, likely better to stop and ask why we even want more users (if we even do?).
I have a post early on Lemmy, around the migration, about how it felt like any morality and responsibility to objective fact over there left with our initially migrating group. The change is subtle, but it’s crazy how far you have to scroll into the comments now to find the buried correct answer that refutes the misinformation in the title or linked article.
Also, the “which movie is this for you?” Type posts have just saturated over there. As well as shit, obscure linked sources (e g. “Indiatrump.biz” “realzgovtruth.info” kind of shit), as sources of front page upvoted posts, seem so much more prevalent over there now.
Could have auto versus manual server choice. Can always maintain option for granular selection for those who want, but “normies” could walk into a quiz when migrating?
Top three things you used Reddit for? (List of maybe 10+ things, servers can maintain their feature list to empower this)
Do you like A) talking to everybody about days topics B) talking to a smaller group of like minded people
Do you like A) a MORE moderated space B) a LESS moderated space, realizing you may see more spam and controversy
And then calculates a server that meets needs, if multiple, then random number generator to assign a server from the filtered options. On user side, all they see is a quiz followed by a typical registration screen. This would help with distribution of users across niche servers, but feel lighter for user. They also would assume a more curated experience, regardless of where they end up. Servers could have to opt in to be fed users from search of they were afraid of impact on cost to maintain server.
The above likely aren’t the right questions, but this framework could be effective
The nazis weren’t as competent and intelligent as you suggest, that work was outsourced to IBM - Yes, that IBM.
You know that Watson product that IBM sells and advertises so often? R one that plays chess and was on jeopardy (Fun!) Turns out that Watson was the name of the dude that signed off on them accelerating the Holocaust for the nazis. Some believe the nazis couldn’t have been nearly as efficient at unrepentant large scale murder without IBM joining the fray, yet they skate on by…
Yeah, you can still get something from the odd crank, but used to be much more practically useful for day to day needs.
If you feel any kind of meaningful trustworthiness from a Facebook profile, you’ve probably got some other things to worry about…
God… remember how fucking simple craigslist was when it hit it’s peak? The fact that Grandpa could take a shaky flip phone picture and post a thing you needed right around the corner, no fat or other frivolous horseshit…
Craigslist is still simple last I checked, but the user base left and now dominated by spam from retail and drop shippers masquerading as local people selling goods from their garage.
Nothing gold can stay
Shorten to “Frendi”, probably would be enough to get app discussed and shared more.
Why not sell these at cost? Majority of your orders are likely able to fit in an envelope with a stamp?