And I would like to see a federation-wide policy that all bots must be clearly identified as bots (an attribute on their account). And features in the site code to block all bots as a user preference.
Back then, 800,000 subscribers to community/subreddit, those were big numbers. It was part of what made Reddit what it is today, starting out with communities that Facebook wouldn't allow. The owners of Reddit even gave that guy an award: Reddit gave him an award – a gold-plated bobblehead doll “for making significant contributions to the site.”
What seemed to shut it down more than anything was loss of anonymous usernames (the guy who created the subreddits got fired from his job). Today in 2023, it would probably be more like governments (hard to say, as the CNN story doesn't say they found evidence of illegal images)?
I honestly don't know how to answer you. You are mixing now "liberal" in posting topic with "right wing" in comment. "I know" that I said "liberal vs. conservative", you start going "left wing vs. right wing" and you get an entirely different set of nebulous faiths people have about the meaning of those words and their importance in viewing/interpreting the world that way.
As a human thinking system, all I see is people constantly hammering it as a be-all-end-all measuring stick. That is left, this is right, that is conservative, this is liberal without any true reasoning behind it as to why measure things this way.
Which great teachers said you should divide all interpretation of the world into this? I'm from the USA, and the Constitution sure doesn't mention "left vs. right" or "liberal vs. conservative", and the Founding Fathers of my nation did in fact educate a division via the Great Seal, front and rear, new world order vs. old world order. The Enlightenment (science) vs. classical mythology (superstition).
It's like some runaway meme of cognitive dissonance to have this divisive faith systems. Left vs. Right seems to me to be exactly superstition!
I am also fully self-aware how popular that this is and that I'm pissing into a wind of extreme acceptance of this division. The map you show to me is an illustration of why it is a overused way of thinking. /rant
I think the true cognitive dissonance is the extremely strong faith in 2023 by so many in humanity who believe you can divide every single topic into "liberal vs. conservative". You just can't escape this bipolar thinking pattern, it's everywhere. A faith bigger than any classical religion.
... people say they have visual photographic memories, and I know musicians who can sit at a piano and play a song they only heard one time. But I don't have any idea of the percentage of people who have these talents.
With !neurodivergence@beehaw.org you can clearly find patterns of minds who have problems with language processing. I personally do better with reading than I do auditory language.
RedReader really focuses on being able to read text. You can set font sizes on every aspect of postings and comments to exactly what you desire for the size of screen tablet/smartphone you have.
Also keep in mind they have a lot of tools to try and prevent vote manipulation. Even when there are zero email addresses, for over a decade the Reddit code tries to detect if someone logs out and logs in to grant multiple upvotes to the same posting.
Even when it isn't my own posting, I've sometimes upvoted the same posting from two accounts - and see that the count did not go up the same. That's why I assume there is some kind of underlying awareness within the (server) app that the accounts are related.
On a site like Lemmy and Reddit, vote manipulation is key to getting postings to the top of the page. I imagine Lemmy will eventually encounter rogue federated instances that try to game the system. I remember 10 years ago when Reddit had to start building a lot of anti-spam features into the code. But I really dislike how they black-hole comments based on keywords and I was always opening issues in their /r/Bugs subreddit to complain about their instant removal of comments that had certain keywords (in 2020, posting a link to the BBC about anti-vaccination would trigger it on major subreddits that had their spam filter set high).
And I would like to see a federation-wide policy that all bots must be clearly identified as bots (an attribute on their account). And features in the site code to block all bots as a user preference.