It won’t backfire. Propaganda works. That’s why Tiktok was so important in the first place.

As a supporter of the move to Lemmy.world, I do also believe you should unlock original 196 and hand it over to whoever wants to mod it. Multiple communities on the Fediverse is not a bad thing, and while locking it was a sensible strategic decision to get the community to move, the level of backlash has made it untenable as a solution, and even a temporary lock is possibly more harm than good at this point.

Long-term disagreements between the mods of 196 and the admin of Blahaj led to the mods of 196, with the admin’s permission, moving to .world instead and locking the previous community with a redirect. The mods of 196 did not consult the community before the move, and many of them feel miffed at this.

What really is the issue here?

Some people don’t like that they weren’t consulted.

Some people are supportive of Ada.

For all the dust kicked up, there’s not much more to it than that.

I mean, I’ve got definite FOMO, but I generally don’t feel the need to continuously search for new content. If the comms in my feed are quiet, that’s nearly a good thing.

I’ve always wanted to be a frag grenade

The advantages most of us see in the Fediverse (lack of corporate control, low algorithm interference) are seen by most normal users as either of little importance, or actively detrimental. The Fediverse requires you engage with it to cultivate a feed that gives you what you’re interested in. But the people fleeing to Rednote want a strong algorithm that feeds them what they want, and they don’t mind influence games being played by the algorithm in exchange for this convenience.

If you ask three Turks whether Turkiye is part of the Middle East or Europe, two of them will fight each other over their answers, and one of them will fight you for asking.

The same people peddling that argument, sadly, will assert, unironically, “Thalmann did nothing wrong”.

There’s no getting through to them. They’re as blinkered and evidence-averse as the conservatives they claim to oppose.

“If you help us against the Ottomans we’ll totally help you in return, please trust us” - Perfidious Albion in WW1

You mean where unicorns live?

Centurion, proscribe this faithless dog!

Israel? Do you mean the province of Syria Palaestina?

It’s not so much about power - it’s generally agreed that Washington was very aware of the potential judgement of future generations, and made significant efforts, in that vein, to give a performance that they would regard positively. In other words, he wanted to be remembered as a hero - and as far as motivations for being less shitty than one’s peers go, there are definitely worse ones to be had.

Cyprus pulling the uno reverse card on Turkiye

I’m mostly bone, so you’ll probably want to make me into a broth.

They pretended it was out of pride, but the truth is the Spanish were too afraid to harm her after that.

Legendary dog, shame what side they forced the poor pupper on.

While waiting for Ponce de León to arrive from the capital, the troops amused themselves by harassing the captives. Guilarte de Salazar gave an old Indian woman a folded piece of paper and informed her that it was a letter that was to be carried to the governor- if she refused, she would be fed to the dogs.[7]

The frightened woman accepted in the hopes of surviving, but after she turned and began down the road Salazar released Becerrillo and commanded him to take her. As she was charged by the dog, the old woman dropped to her knees and prayed “Please, my Lord Dog. I am on my way to take this letter to Christians. I beg you, my Lord Dog, please do not hurt me.”[7]

According to witnesses, Becerrillo stopped short and regarded the woman intently. He sniffed at the woman and the paper in her hands, before turning away, lifting a leg, and marking her with urine. He stood by as the woman returned unharmed to the Spanish troops. Upon his arrival, Ponce de León was informed of what had occurred. He commanded the troops, “Free her and send her safely back to her people. Then let us leave this place for now. I will not permit the compassion and forgiveness of a dog to outshine that of a true Christian.”[8]

Dog was a better human being than his masters.

Exist. They had to be stopped.