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And what do the people of Northern Ireland want?

So you think someone supporting the hypothetical attack of people in Northern Ireland and promoting it would be a good thing?

The people of Northern Ireland are descendents of descendents of descendents. They have their own devolved government, and I expect that within some election cycles, a pro-Republican majority will hold the Stormont and be able to seriously move to a referendum. In our lifetime.

Calling for violence in light of that reality is repulsive.

I think someone sharing an IRA-type commentator implying support for the violent takeover of Northern Ireland would receive a similar level of contempt.

Without looking, that thread looks tongue-in-cheek. You just posted Danny Haiphong who once went to Belgium and complained about all the blue and yellow he saw, thinking it was to do with being pro-Ukraine, except it was just that cities aesthetic.

No, revanchists would receive the outcome no matter who they are.

The Taiwanese don't want to be governed by the CCP.

You openly laughed about the prospect of China invading Taiwan.

A situation that would cause millions to be killed potentially.

So you find the prospect of a country launching a military assault against a far weaker opponent to be funny, do you?

And wider reddit mods because part of the appeal of this to many mods is to grow and organise a community. Power-tripping aside - if they can't do that anymore (ie can't curate content via banning people) then it negates the value of the platform to them.

I strongly oppose any US intervention in Venezuela, but the notion their civil society is equivalent to Norway other than superficial observation that both are oil-rich is absurd.

So why now? There is literally no reason for this mutually beneficial arrangement to end now after all these years…unless Reddit admin has something planned that they know will piss off even the powermods, and are trying to ensure that no single person or small group of people has the ability to lead an effective sitewide rebellion.

I am quite convinced that in the near-future reddit will make large(r) subreddits at least governed by AI tools, removing mods entirely.

What’s interesting to me here regarding this, is Reddits current preparation timescale for the changes here. This isn’t going to be enforced until March 31st, 2026. This tells me that Reddit would have been unprepared for a complete mass-walkout of community moderators during the 2023 Reddit API strikes. A large chunk of Reddit during that period was genuinely inaccessible. But after a few token gestures and a few examples made of some especially rebellious mod-teams, most of the striking moderators returned.

A huge opportunity was missed by people running major communities to functionally degrade Reddit in at least the medium-term as a website. You can’t just hastily promote random people to replace moderators Reddit is either forced to remove or who leave voluntarily. The average person is likely too lazy, too arbitrary and too corrupt to effectively oversee communities of notable sizes.

People whine about terminally online moderators being power-hungry and garbage, but I can assure you hastily promoted randoms given the keys are far worse in most cases.

I'd note that the same phenomenon exists on Reddit. You'd be surprised how many subreddits on a site much larger are maintained purely by the power of a few posters who feed the community with posts.

I'd also argue that television and movies on piefed.social, per activity, are much more active than what you suggest there.

Absolutely fine. I can interact much better with the fediverse on here except search. I find Lemmy does search functions better currently.

Yeah I removed a number of made-up shows whilst doing this.

I asked it in reference to one it invented "This show doesn't exist, does it?"

And the AI literally replied "You're right! It was a hypothetical!"

????????

Fuck sake. Removed.

I admit. I use Gemini to help me isolate the specific shows coming up for a month. Manually looking up the streamers and networks to isolate for actual new series and returning series is very tedious without the use of AI.

I then have to screen what it replies to me with because the AI will outright make shows up sometimes. Quite literally it will just invent shows out of thin air. I actually put in the prompt specifically "Do not make any shows up. If you can't find anything releasing on Peacock (example) this month, then do not list anything".