And maybe consider a robotomy.

100%. That’s why Snowden asked every visitor from the press to put their phones in the microwave before they started their interviews. Of course he didn’t turn it on, it was to function as a Faraday cage.

While certain large instances 👀 might resemble Reddit in terms of “quality” of discussions, not all of them do. Not at all.

The future was here, once upon a time.

I got banned for a month when I wrote that I disapprove of conspiracy theories. Some keyword list must have triggered it.

I’d argue that especially on Reddit, you’re always up against brigades, claques and other coordinated actors pushing corporate or state narratives on the naive parts of the populace. In hindsight, it’s really awfully obvious.

Sweden bent over and wants to join the EU

Ah, to live in 1994 again.