Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia, with nine other people on board also dead
  • @[email protected]English
    25•2 years ago

    I don’t even know how to react to this news: On one hand Wagner Prigozhin is a person who is ideologically much worse than Putin (basically full-blown fascist as opposed to imperialist), but on the other hand he could have helped with increasing unrest in Russia which could technically mean chaos on Russian side of the front and opportunity for Ukraine to make some gains, but of course that’s long time due, due to giving up on march on Moscow.

  • @[email protected]English
    43•2 years ago

    Good.

    He was a fucking dumbass piece of shit who deserves this for not following through on his coup.

    This is not surprising at all lmao.

  • @[email protected]English
    725•2 years ago

    Wow, I’ve been browsing Twitter, Reddit and Lemmy for the past few hours. I’m surprised to see such breaking news first in Lemmy instead of Twitter or Reddit.

    Awesome! Hope the Fidiverse keeps on growing to become bigger than Reddit and Twitter.

    • BarqsHasBiteEnglish
      64•2 years ago

      Reddit hot sorts more by popular, so things take a long time to rise up.

      Lemmy hot seems to be (too much) biased to new. Can be a bad thing because it looks like things don’t get popular. They do but you don’t see it by hot, you see it by top 12 hour.

      • kamenLady.English
        5•2 years ago

        Yesterday i switched to active for a while, because hot was almost identical to new.

      • DarkThoughts
        6•2 years ago

        On Reddit you want to sort by “Rising” for this sort of breaking news stuff.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•2 years ago

          Now I learn this, 2 months after tossing that platform in the bin.

          After years of wondering where the hell the breaking news went…

      • VeloxizationEnglish
        18•2 years ago

        I think the algorithm for Lemmy’s hot sorting is just based on interactions within time unit. The newer the post, the more valuable an upvote is.

      • @[email protected]English
        10•2 years ago

        The one thing current Reddit seems to do right is give smaller subreddits a chance to show up on Hot. Lemmy tends to be a little too simple, and the frontpage gets dominated by the one or two big groups.

        • @[email protected]English
          6•2 years ago

          Yeah, I’m pretty happy with the sorting algorithm in general for the way content gets presented, but some weighting to better include smaller communities would be great. Lemmy is still struggling with getting a critical mass in users to support niche interests, and a better post sorting could help a bit at least.

      • @[email protected]English
        66•2 years ago

        Early 2010s Reddit was so addicting, if there was something in the world it was on the front page in 15 minutes. I remember being excited to check on Reddit after waking up to see that was the event of the day.

        After 2016 the algo was screwed up and it became a cesspool of reposts and news were late to show up.

    • @[email protected]English
      71•2 years ago

      Good point. Really good sign for users if we can get breaking news stories here like this.

    • @[email protected]English
      8•2 years ago

      I think it’s only a matter of time. The enshitification of reddit is guaranteed, it’s really inevitable and it’s going to keep getting worse. Long live the Fediverse!

    • @[email protected]English
      27•2 years ago

      The whole Western political apperatus has been saying Putin doesn’t have the guts to release any of the compromat he holds on them and that he needs them more than they need him.

  • HexesofVexesEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    Clearly a case of Russian suicide. The kind only the state can arrange.

  • @[email protected]English
    25•2 years ago

    Yay! 🥳 So “denazifying” Ukraine while having SS/nazi tattoos says everything about Wagner, Russia, Putin and all of these fascist cowards. Rest in piss, nazi scum!