Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin presumed dead after Russia plane crash
www.bbc.co.uk
The Russian private military company boss was on the passenger list of the jet which came down near Moscow.
  • theprecursor@lemmy.mlEnglish
    101·
    1 year 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.

    • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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.

      • Veloxization@yiffit.netEnglish
        2·
        1 year 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.

      • brockpriv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year 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.

      • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 year 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.

        • Wxnzxn@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          1 year 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.

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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!

    • InvertedParallax@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Tragically the plane crashed into a surface to air missile.

      Edit: yeah, this is actually what happened, no subtlety here, damn.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Like, fucking literally.

        “Crash” my ass, BBC, you say it got shot down in the article, how is that not a more accurate and sensational headline?

        “Prigozhin got blown the fuck up, like everyone knew he would the moment he pussed out, the Nazi coward.”

    • ristoril_zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I feel like when the attempted coup fizzled out there was a Russia expert who predicted he’s be dead within 90 days. Sounds like that guy was right.

  • Crass Spektakel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    1 year ago

    Selenskyj was right: Prigozhin will be dead after two months. And he isn’t the only hardliner. I think within the last month six out of ten of the hardest hardliners fell out of the window. Or out of the sky.

    Seems like Putin is currently liquidating the hardliners so there will be no negative feed back when he ends his “special operation” in a couple of weeks. Message at home will be: Wow, we did great, nobody objects and the world is in awe! And who disagrees will find an open window to jump through…