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Yevgeny Prigozhin: Wagner chief presumed dead after Russia plane crash.
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Wow, I’ve been browsing Twitter, Reddit and Lemmy for the past few hours. I’m surprised to see such breaking news first in Lemmy instead of Twitter or Reddit.
Awesome! Hope the Fidiverse keeps on growing to become bigger than Reddit and Twitter.
Look at me
Lemmy is the frontpage of the internet now
Damn right it is!
The Future is Federated.
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Good point. Really good sign for users if we can get breaking news stories here like this.
literally the only reason i keep going to reddit to sort by rising every now and then.
Reddit hot sorts more by popular, so things take a long time to rise up.
Lemmy hot seems to be (too much) biased to new. Can be a bad thing because it looks like things don’t get popular. They do but you don’t see it by hot, you see it by top 12 hour.
Early 2010s Reddit was so addicting, if there was something in the world it was on the front page in 15 minutes. I remember being excited to check on Reddit after waking up to see that was the event of the day.
After 2016 the algo was screwed up and it became a cesspool of reposts and news were late to show up.
No problem, let’s have Hot 1 and Hot 2!
Hot 1 is Hot
Hot 2 is Top 6 hours
At least how I use it.
We’re missing “most comments in the last <time>”</time>
On Reddit you want to sort by “Rising” for this sort of breaking news stuff.
Now I learn this, 2 months after tossing that platform in the bin.
After years of wondering where the hell the breaking news went…
I think the algorithm for Lemmy’s hot sorting is just based on interactions within time unit. The newer the post, the more valuable an upvote is.
Lemmy “hot” seems to function a lot like reddit’s “rising”
Yesterday i switched to active for a while, because hot was almost identical to new.
The one thing current Reddit seems to do right is give smaller subreddits a chance to show up on Hot. Lemmy tends to be a little too simple, and the frontpage gets dominated by the one or two big groups.
Yeah, I’m pretty happy with the sorting algorithm in general for the way content gets presented, but some weighting to better include smaller communities would be great. Lemmy is still struggling with getting a critical mass in users to support niche interests, and a better post sorting could help a bit at least.
I think it’s only a matter of time. The enshitification of reddit is guaranteed, it’s really inevitable and it’s going to keep getting worse. Long live the Fediverse!
I saw it first on YouTube and got really mad about that
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Russia shot it down intentionally and announced it. Its in like the first sentence or two of the article.
No it isn’t, read again. That’s a claim by “Wagner-linked Telegram channel”. It can hardly be trusted. No official statement from Putin, investigation is ongoing.
There has been video of Russian AA shooting the plane down though.
Would you mind sharing the video? I didn’t see any. Afaik the most probable cause is a bomb on the deck.
They are on Twitter and I don’t know how to link them.
But the story is still very early with most saying he isn’t even dead.
Who could have seen this coming? Shocked, I tell ya!
I’m surprised Putin still has ghouls that will carry out these
blatant political killing sprees, I mean, accidentswhen communism die
This for real? Figured it was coming but haven’t seen any mention of it elsewhere.
Just hitting bbc.
Putin will personally head the investigation.
sounds like an air strike to me, or maybe just an accident
He accidentally hit a missile. Shit happens.
These Russians are fucking clumsy.
The airplane itself mysteriously fell out of a window.
It mysteriously acquired an additional window.
One of the cardinal rules of power struggles is “If you’re gonna shoot for the king, don’t miss.”
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He just stopped. It was the most bizarre coup attempt, really.
I mean he had to know, right? With guys like Putin if you go hot, you either kill him or he has you killed. There is no in-between. His entire image relies on that. Maybe they had Prigozhin’s family or something?
It might be that he was counting on the support of one or more Generals. That fizzled at the last minute, and then he didn’t know what to do.
Furthermore,
Mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous; and if one holds his state based on these arms, he will stand neither firm nor safe; for they are disunited, ambitious and without discipline, unfaithful, valiant before friends, cowardly before enemies
-- Machiavelli in the Prince
Not to call out Putin’s Russia for being amateur hour, but the Prince is probably the first thing to read for an aspiring dictator.
Wait, I’m listening to The Prince in audiobook form. Does that mean I’m an aspiring dictator?
Well, if you are, there might be a job opening in Russia for you soon!
When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.
Man didn’t even miss, he just got scared halfway through
It was just a prank, bro!
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From what I gather, he backed down because all his top men’s families were being threatened. Prigozhin’s family was kept safe, of course, but I don’t think they expected Russia to threaten the families of those further down the ladder.
This all just makes him seem naive and unprepared for the position he was in.
I have a theory.
I think the Slavic Russian Nazi a total dictator let run a private army might have been a little dumb.
Any predictions for how Russia will spin this?
My guess, they’ll spread a conspiracy theory about him still being alive. They’ll claim this is a coverup so that he can appear dead and go into hiding.
I guess that will go with drone from Ukraine or blame the west, maybe a F-16 mysteriously appeared over Russia.
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I’m honestly surprised that he lasted this long
I feel like when the attempted coup fizzled out there was a Russia expert who predicted he’s be dead within 90 days. Sounds like that guy was right.
Honestly didn’t need to be a expert on Russia to predict that
No kidding, literally everyone figured he’d be dead soon. Not sure how he didn’t realize that.
Yeah I just read an article two days ago where he had sent out some videos via telegram showing he was still alive. Kinda surprising, then boom.
“Person vaguely aware of how Russia works predicts Prigozhin will be dead in 90 days”. That headline doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
Weirdly enough, it’s exactly two months between the mutiny and his death. Interestingly enough, the invasion started on 24th as well. Weird.
And then fell out of the airplane window.
“What could have possibly caused this crash killing a totally insignificant and unimportant person?!” -RT
are they even going to report it? I want to see but I don’t want to burn my eyes with RT’s website
Who put that surface-to-air missile there?
