@Oneeightnine The only horrific thing he has to do is look like he'll lose the election.
For what it's worth, I too have no confidence that Sunak will win the election, thank goodness.
Those submitting letters to the committee now probably never liked Sunak in the first place, some may have even submitted them on day one when they were just angry at him ousting BoJo.
Of course they do, Labour will be the ones passing the laws in a couple of years and they've shown under their current leadership they are no threat to established interests and will do nothing to change the order of things and since the party has lost so many members it needs the money.
@BenGFHC
They only have one button. Their choice is to press it or not press it. So they press it when inflation is high. You could get a robot to do it. They know it won't work, might even make it worse, but they have no other buttons to press.
This wave will surely redouble when the apps actually get turned off next week.
Fedi has always had scalloped growth. Big Social tightens the thumb-screws, a wave of people leave, half of them go back because it turns out they can put up with the thumb-screws after all. Those that remain settle in and start servers. The waterline is then higher when the next wave comes.
Probably the "company" that they thought you were shilling for is Kbin or Lemmy? Which aren't companies of course, but an understandable mistake.
Presumably the people on Reddit will become more and more in favour of the admins, as everyone who isn't leaves.
Soon all that is left will be the Spez Fan Club.
@Rain3h Dunno waht the Jarboa app is.
But log in to the feddit.uk server, search for @gunners in the search, and if nothing is broken with federation it should show up.
The cevat is that sometimes at the moment servers are turning on DDOS protection, and that breaks the federation. Hopefully they eventually can turn that off and restore federation to it's full working state. lemmy world seems to be connecting to fedia.io at the moment at least.
@honeyed_coffee For the reasons the OP mentioned. Familiar faces, being recognized in a community instead of being just today's main character.
In a single large forum most participants are silent, as they must be or it'd be a cacophony. Many are silent out of worry that they need to say something good enough to impress a hundred thousand people, not just something interesting to their local 100 friends.
On Fediverse things escape their local instances and their local forum-groups by boosts mostly.
Yeah, I keep saying this to people when they worry about fragmentation. Like it's important to have all the Baseball fans in the same Baseball forum under one big banner.
No, that's not better, that's worse. What you want is a thousand interconnected forums with 100 people each, not a forum with 100,000 people.
@Gaywallet Replying in your mega-thread. KBin here is tagging you when I do that and I didn't delete it.
Haven't used Lemmy much, perhaps that behaviour is different?
@CeruleanRuin their website says right there on the nag popup. This website is deliberately user hostile, to drive you all onto the app where you can be efficiently transported towards the rotating knives.
I mostly just didn't look at Reddit much to avoid the trap.
@TheButtonJustSpins It's like letting oligarchs monopolize the means of communication is a bad idea or something!? Who knew.
In the first term of a Labour government they will maybe be a bit less hostile towards the EU but they won't be re-joining or anything. They'll have no mandate to do so since they worry putting it in a manefesto would alienate their red-wall voters.
As it currently looks Labour won't do much of anything at all. Continue tory spending plans, refuse to raise any taxes, not rebuild any schools, not make any changes which may affect the social order or reform capitalism in any way.
Expect 4 years of calm with almost nothing happening. Which in itself will be quite a relief.