Ah okay. Ne so richtig Ahnung habe ich nicht, aber ich wollte den Film vor 10 Jahren mal schauen und hab natürlich erst mal der vollständigsten Version gesucht. Ein bisschen was von der Recherche ist in einer dunklen Ecke meines Gehirns hängen geblieben.
Hier mehr dazu, zwei Szenen sind wohl nicht mehr zu retten. Ja, finde das Thema auch grundsätzlich super spannend. Weniger die Medien an sich, sondern die verrückten, teils nicht mehr nachvollziehbaren Wege, die diese hinter sich haben, z.B. die zwei verlorenen Dr. Who Episoden, die für HongKong bestimmt waren und in Nigeria aufgetaucht sind.
Metropolis war bei einem Filmsammler in Argentinien und leider auch in sehr schlechtem, teils nicht mehr restaurierbaren Zustand.
Habe letztens erfahren, dass die Originalaufnahmen der Mondlandung verschwunden sind. Also nicht der Bums, der im TV ausgestrahlt wurde, sondern die unmittelbaren Aufzeichnungen der NASA. Völlig verrückt, das war doch das positive Ereignis des 20. Jahrhunderts.
"You are right. We are tiny sacks of flesh and bones on a tiny rock floating through the infinitely bigger space we call universe. The impacts of our actions only matter to the few close to us. The absolute overwhelming majority of creatures on this planet doesn't know us, doesn't care about us, won't notice any effect when we vanish. Our lives, our selfes, our material possessions will be forgotten in a time frame that is in itself nothing compared to the age of the universe and what is going to come. You should give me a raise."
Die Wehmut um die Atomkraft in Deutschland ist fast so intensiv wie die Wehmut der Lemmings hinsichtlich reddit.
Relevantes Zitat:
"Positionen gegen die offene Gesellschaft und die liberale Demokratie sind unter AfD-Wählenden jedenfalls sehr weit verbreitet und vor allem stabil. Insofern halte ich den Begriff Protestwähler für komplett verharmlosend. Damit versucht sich die institutionalisierte Politik seit jeher zu beruhigen.
Die Vorstellung, die verloren gegangenen Wähler kämen zurück, wenn man kurz mal die Begriffe der Rechten übernimmt, ist irrig. Jene Mentalitäten, die die Menschen dazu bringen, AfD zu wählen, existierten schon lange vor ihrer Gründung, waren aber parteipolitisch ungebunden. Nun haben sie eine feste Anschlussstelle."
Junge Männer machen es mir generell schwierig, junge Männer zu akzeptieren. Das ist einfach mit Abstand die anstrengendste Bevölkerungsgruppe.
/nextfuckinglevel is so annoying when it gets to /all. Usually it's some trivial activity that is executed well or someone just doing their job. Nothing "next level" about it at all.
Also any of the large subs that get flooded with fucking TikTok videos. In the beginning everybody pointed out the shitty songs or fake laugh tracks etc, now it seems everyone just gave up and accepted it.
Die haben doch angeblich so viele Überstunden und sind so schlimm überarbeitet. Wie passt das zusammen?
Democracies rarely go to war with each other. Add mutual economical dependency to that and you have a strong base to avoid armed conflict. The EU is a good example for that.
Sounds coherent. Would you say there are any effective tools to counter that problem? I wonder what the central banks can do at the moment, because it seems they are kind of in a deadlock regarding the control of inflation.
Tomatus, tomatos.
I miss the times where every post was about how shitty reddit is. Now it's only original content. It's really going downhill fast.
Now the governmental situation plays into their hands. It's the first government that consists of three parties that in parts have diametrically opposed ideologies and policies. It was clear from the beginning that there would be a lot of friction happening. They openly argue about urgent topics, most recently about a proposed heating-reform, now passing over to a debate about the EU migration reform. While you can dislike aspects of the form of these debates, in my opinion they are, in essence, a sign of a healthy democratic culture. But the problem is that the former mentioned morons are unsettled by these debates and see them as a sign of a weak government. So what they do, instead of trying to understand what is happening or trying to take part in shaping these debates, is that they succumb to their feeling of fear and look for someone who paints themselves as a strong leader and give them a feeling of stability, paving the path for the group mentioned in 2.
Things like inflation and the Ukraine war of course don't contribute to the confidence of the population with their governments, but the morons fail to grasp that these things aren't in full control of a single government, so they spout shit like "the greens made gas expensive" or "the greens keep the Ukraine war going with weapon deliveries". It's always the greens, because they seem to be the only party that is far enough away from the AfD ideologically to not have significant amounts of voters moving over, so they are perfect for negative projection.
*This is also the reason why neither the "collective movement" approach nor the "big tent" approach work for the left: There are too many factions who believe their doctrine is the only relevant truth and they are neither able to make compromises or subordinate their faction under another one. This can be seen as a good thing democracy-wise, but it's a shit precondition if you need to prevent fascism.
It's bad, but you could see it coming for a couple of years. It's only a matter of time until they manage to win a state. I guess it's going to be Saxony and/or Thuringia.
In my opinion there are two rules of thumb regarding voting population and politics in Germany and probably western countries in general:
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A third of every population consists of morons who are easily deceived by right wing populists who manage to present themselves as the rebellious underdog. UK, France, USA, Sweden etc., you can see that everywhere. These people, for some reason I still fail to fully understand, are unable to make a connection between their legitimate feeling of betrayal through our current system (aka capitalism) and factual solutions. Instead they follow those who do not offer solutions and instead propose to make everything worse, but, like I said, manage to present themselves as the ones who "fight the system". All right wing populists have something in common: They do not publicly say too much about what policies they are effectively going to implement, resulting in them being a huge canvas for every kind of projected wishes their voters have. That's why Trump worked for conspiracy nuts, libertarians, religious extremists, right wing extremists, moderate conservatives, economically liberals and unpolitical dumbasses alike. Everyone of these factions could project what they wanted for society into what Trump would do, because aside from singular statements, Trump was actually pretty vague in what he wanted. The whole stupid "drain the swamp" theme is a perfect representation of what I mean. The AfDs motto in the last general election was "Germany, but normal". The proposal of Brexit basically functioned like that, too. It was going to solve all the problems for whatever reason and enough people believed it.
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About 10% of the German population (huge overlap with the proportion mentioned in 1.), and it might be the same for other western countries but i don't know, are more or less openly fascist. These are the ones who profit from a "collective movement" that manages to assemble different parts of the political spectrum. This is different from a "big tent" approach where a compromise between related groups is thought to give them all a political representation.* This is not a new invention. The NSDAP functioned just like that. They managed to gather a huge chunk of the political spectrum around them, from nobility over capitalists over nationalists to liberals deep into the the political left. There were even former social-democrat and communist groups that merged into the NSDAP. I had a pretty illuminating chart about that, but i can't find it online. The AfD works just like this. They have a fascist wing (literally called "Flügel" = "wing"), evangelicals, nobility, conspiracy nuts, economically liberals, former SPD and Linke-politicians and voters. They are united in their refusal of migrants, but that is pretty much all they can agree on. The new district leader of Sonneberg is a member of the "Flügel" and I'm sure all of the future ones will be, too. The "Flügel" is pretty effective in bullying everyone else out of important positions or even the party.
A couple of years ago i saw a world map with predictions about water scarcity and was kind of relieved Germany was classified as "low risk" (or something like that).
Currently farmers are complaining about too little precipitation and predict lower grain yields for this year. It's fucking scary.
I'm guessing "official" in the status column means that the mods over at reddit opened that community in the fediverse?
I want to add my two mycology communities and i guess i'm gonna have to declare them as unofficial, right?
Edit: Just noticed that I have no idea how to contribute on github anyways.
Hm, vielleicht habe ich mich nicht genau genug ausgedrückt. Ich meine nicht Phrasen wie "meiner Meinung nach", sondern ein angehängtes "meine Meinung". Da besteht ein feiner Unterschied, den ich aber auch ehrlich gesagt schwierig zu beschreiben finde.
Jetzt kannst du deine äußern ohne mich als dumm oder als Lügner zu brandmarken
Keine Ahnung, woher das jetzt kommt um ehrlich zu sein.
Das mit den up- und downvotes finde ich zwar sinnvoll, aber erfahrungsgemäß wirst du nie in die Leute reinkriegen, dass die Buttons so gemeint sind. Sie werden immer als Zeichen der Zustimmung oder Ablehnung genutzt werden.
I'll never forget the taste of milk taken right from a chickens teat.
It started as an answer to a comment, but then I figured it might be worth a post on it's own.
So here you go:
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The blackout was not noticeable in terms of engagement. There were plenty of threads that still got tens of thousands of upvotes, so the frontpage didn't look more empty than before. There were just some missing subs and an occasional reference to the blackout on the subs that were closed. The impact was much, much smaller than people here and over at lemmy suggest. Of course your personal frontpage is a lot more empty if you subscribed to the subs that are part of the blackout. It's absolutely not the case for /all though. Additionally, the blackout trackers are confusing. They show how many subs went black in relation to a total amount. Many people, me included, at first thought the total was the actual total amount of active subs, while in reality it was only the subs that pledged to close down. Reddit has up to 140,000 active subs, so in fact not even 5% closed. The attempt to show that reddit is generally uninteresting without a certain part of mods and users failed.
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The API/3PA changes affect like 5-10% of users, so for most this isn't even a problem. I was really surprised when I found out about that number yesterday, because i thought it would be more like 20-30% for whatever reason. Every time there is a discussion about 3PAs that fact is omitted, so that the problem seems larger than it is. Why should the overwhelming majority that doesn't use 3PAs care about that topic?
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The company doesn't consist of total morons. The user base of reddit is known to have a certain amount of people who are able to organize a protest network (think back to the net neutrality protest). They knew this was going to happen and it was already priced in. They stay on their path because reddit will be more profitable than before. They are losing troublemakers (aka people who want to have a say in their company policies aka us) with this move and will probably gain a multitude of new users with whatever they are aiming for. Everyone is asking why they have 2000 employees. Well, a bunch of them are surely hired in the marketing department. I assume they studied that shit and know exactly what they are doing. They certainly have business psychologists, marketing experts, data scientists.
To reword what I'm trying to say here: Instagram et al aren't that huge because they do what the users want, but because the companies know how to shape a service to cater to the majority of people. Reddit will do the same. In capitalism, going public is the logical step for a company to scale with their amount of clients. Catering to shareholders is inseparable from that, so rationalization is inevitable. The users who recognize that seem to be a minority. This minority is moving to the fediverse now, which, to put it in a more optimistic light, is kind of a win-win situation.
- I'm starting to care less about all that. I reflected about my reddit usage and figured that I mostly subscribed to smaller communities anyways. I rarely commented in subs that regularly got more than 1000 upvotes for their contributions. Having hundreds of comments under a post gets annoying fast, because you'll be having a hard time being part of a conversation and there is no way to find out if the thing you wanted to say wasn't already said anyways.
Posting was already starting to get annoying in medium-sized subs. I asked a question about fungus gnats in my plant pots, specifically pointing out that I want to use chemicals and not nematodes. Guess what? About 30 people recommended nematodes anyways. I don't want this low quality spam, so I'd rather have a smaller community where people read before posting and not comment for the sake of commenting. I'm also okay with the Fediverse having multiple communities about identical topics. The mycology subs on reddit where flooded with ID requests of the same mushrooms multiple times a day, so people cared rarely to help identifying, because of course there is no incentive to write the same thing multiple times a day. Having that phenomenon spread out between multiple communities will take the load of a single community and their mods to handle these low effort posts. Yes, having really small communities is shit because nothing happens and it gets a self-enforcing effect until everyone leaves. Having huge communities sucks because of the reasons I named. Medium-size are the best. A few thousand subscribers, a few threads a day, a few dozen comments per thread. That's my personal optimum for the communities I want to interact with.
- I don't think the Fediverse will grow rapidly and I don't think it needs to. We saw the rapid growth of mastodon after apartheid clyde took over twitter. The rapid shrinking of the active userbase a few weeks after was seen as a proof of its failure. But why is hardly anyone talking about the fact that the userbase three-folded compared to before? Sounds like a huge success to me, something any for-profit company would dream of. The same will happen to "reddit alternative"-services. We saw an influx of users in the last days (I was part of that), we will see another influx around July 1st and when old.reddit is shut down. Surely some decline here and there, but most probably constant growth when looking at a larger timescale the more the idea spreads and the more content is generated.
The shittification of for-profit platforms will continue indefinitely, users will always be driven away from them. Services come and go, there will be new trends, older concepts will be seen as outdated. It has always been like this, it will happen to services on the fediverse, too. But the fediverse as a general structure has huge potential, because it's a perfect base to adapt to these changes. The widespread confusion about how it works will sort itself out by more and more people understanding it and explaining it to their peers. It had to be done with internet/email 20 to 30 years ago, it still has to be done with things like 2FA. I'm a tech-savvy person and still find a lot of functions on the Instagram app unnecessarily confusing, but its one of the most used apps worldwide. Confusion will not stop people from joining a cool thing.
So, I guess I got you until the half of my post and you thought I would only be ranting about the situation. But its the opposite: as a matter of fact I'm firmly on the optimistic site of things :)