Numinous_Ylem

So, what paths are still available for us to preserve and restore those civic freedoms?

"Many of you may have to suffer while I destroy our alliances and funnel your money to billionaires, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make."

And GC continues its decades-long tradition of steadily declining

The original Digg was an important site for me personally between 2005-2009, but only in that early era and mostly as a bridge between my Fark and Reddit eras. I honestly can't see it competing with Reddit's established user base or being as no-nonsense and free as Lemmy. I don't think it will gain traction and the AI aspect will turn a lot of people off from it.

Tyler Hassen and Bryton Shang are fascist toadies.

That's gotta suck, crashing your moon lander less than a week after another company nailed their landing.

I understand they need to have a broad appeal to different groups, moreso than republicans do, but they could easily achieve that same broad appeal by actually fighting for the working class and not doing things like steamrolling Bernie. The out of touch nature of current leadership is effectively neutering the party.

It would be a good thing long term for progressives to finally split from dems IMHO, though I wish we would have a ranked choice type system in place beforehand, but either way it needs to happen.

The DNC is pretty much always playing it too safe....