Except that with the USSR falling the transition of power for Russia was a bit more peaceful
At the time that wasn’t a given. Gorbachev was under a lot of pressure from hardline communists within the party to crack down on the uprising and no-one really knew where the loyalties of the military lay. As it turned out Yeltsin won the day and the transition went peacefully but it could very easily have turned out differently.
Just to add to this, a Prigozhin government would likely be far worse for Ukraine. While Putin had few qualms brutalizing civilians and committing war crimes Prigozhin has none. He’s a ruthless, murderous thug. The best outcome would be that he is defeated by the Russian military but that they have to withdraw troops from Ukraine, allowing the Ukrainians to seize the initiative with their offensive. The worst outcomes don’t bear thinking about.
18C . We live in a condo building that is well insulated so setting it any lower wouldn’t help. I agree, it’s preferable to sleep when it’s cooler. 24C in winter is insane - if you’re cold just put on a jersey or a fleece.
I think the future of these decentralized networks is to make it trivial to set up and run your own instance, in much the same way as Napster allowed anyone to host a file streaming server. The problem with the current system is that new users must choose an instance in which to create an account, so they will tend to choose one of the larger ones. A better idea might be to have a few large instances only for user accounts with the rest of the functionality distributed automatically across all users who sign up to host.
These are just the thoughts of someone with a very basic knowledge of distributed networks and I don’t know if it’s even doable.
Shadow banning… one of the most Orwellian moderation tools ever.
User caps might be a good way to decentralize and ensure that we don’t end up with just a few mega-instances. If there were a page showing available instances with percent of max users then people could use that when selecting.
Since communities (aka subreddits) are hosted on different servers (instances) I thought I would need a separate account on each instance to be able to post them (kept getting “not logged in” message).
Once I actually read the instructions everything was good. One account (choose the instance you want) and then use search … but you must enter the remote instance url exactly as written… no wildcats or anything.
TIL a new verb
I spent a few hours searching for communities that matched my reddit subs. So far there’s not too much there but I’ll certainly try to do my part to change that.
I spent a few hours searching for communities that matched my reddit subs. So far there’s not too much there but I’ll certainly try to do my part to change that.
I closed my Facebook account in 2016 and haven’t looked back. Hoping I feel the same about Reddit
My parents were British and they used to have two washing bowls. Pile the dirty dishes into one and fill with warm water and dish soap. Clean water in the second bowl for rinsing. After a while the second bowl builds up residual soap so it needs to be emptied and refilled. I figure I use the same amount of water rinsing under a running faucet. But the soak thing is a great tip - leaving dishes in water to soak makes cleaning them so much easier.