You have no idea about Switzerland or Northern Europe. In Denmark and Iceland, layoffs are swift.

> I really doubt most of it is astoturfing. You can find bot accounts, obviously. However, the Reddit hivemind has a very intense echo chamber.

There have been discord servers made public where the entire point was to game the reddit algorithm to favor one political candidate.

Getting rid of anonymous powermoderation.

Why do you think that's the issue? On old-school forums, the forum owners had total moderation power.

Yes, and in my opinion, this was what killed Slashdot.

Who knew that giving power to unpaid volunteers who don‘t necessarily have the users or the companies‘ best interest in mind might turn out to be a bad business practice.

> Reddit's algorithm of what to show you is based in part on what you've chosen to follow and in part on what is most likely to get you to stay on the site and engage with the conten

That's not the whole truth. Subreddit Moderation is the key point that's vulnerable to abuse. I block all political subreddits. My blocklist has 120 entries. 10 of those are of inherent political nature. The rest is just like /r/pics - enshittified rage bait about Trump.

Same. And for about 12 to 24 hours after the election loss it was... quiet. A few people coming to terms that the illusion had disappeared, but not in any way comparable to the interactions beforehand.

Then it returned with a vengeance.

The default subs are filled with left-wing conspiracy theories these days.

A consequence of years of reddit allowing its mods to shadow ban centrist voices.

It’s hard to see how reddit escapes this mess. They need more normal people and less political zealots, but the site is already so far down the echo chamber path that its overt political partisanship scares off potential new normal users from participating.

> It’s hard to see how reddit escapes this mess

I don't see why they would. Rage drives engagement, and they just got the number one rage inducing factor back into public office for the next 4 years. This form of engagement also works better on progressives I think.

Honestly, the internet is killing us all slowly. It was better not to argue with our neighbors on the Internet or even social media. Or fellow citizens or even foreign ones CONSTANTLY

Any good resources on this?

2020 oxford internet institute state cybertroop report https://demtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/202...

Honestly can't remember, it was years ago when I looked into it.

Here's a good starting point though (trying to remember): https://www.reddit.com/r/shills/comments/3uoxpl/internet_shi...

But yeah, the site changed heavily around 2015-2016, in tandem with content policing growing, subs getting closed, etc.

These days I just use HN tbh.

> I do use a lot the basic pattern of `loop { select! { ... } }` that manages its own state.

Care to show any example? I'm interested!

I haven't yet used channels anywhere in Rust, but my frustration with async mutexes is growing stronger. Do you care to show any examples?

async mutexes?

> Contrary to popular belief, it is ok and often preferred to use the ordinary Mutex from the standard library in asynchronous code.

> The feature that the async mutex offers over the blocking mutex is the ability to keep it locked across an .await point.

https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/sync/struct.Mutex.html

I like the idea behind Go, but I feel physical pain everytime I have some sort of `go mod` behaviour that is not immediately obvious. Import/Export is so easy, I still don't get how you can fuck it up.

Of course, there is more fusion research now.