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"HAVE YOU GUYS EVER CONSIDERED A FOSS ALTERNATIVE LIKE MATRIX?"
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2025
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On one hand, fuck social media. The recommender AIs that run it are only supposed to optimise engagement, thus optimising ad revenue. But they are far more powerful than that. They can influence public opinion as a whole. Totally out-of-band from the sovereignty of any nation. It is foolish to think that Google, Youtube, Facebook, Netflix, and Twitter aren't abusing this power. Every responsible nation that wants to defend its sovereignty against recommender AIs must ban social media immediately, along with every other source of such recommendations.
On the other hand, everything else that happened in Nepal. I'm just glad the actual decisions happened on Discord, the least terrible of the platforms. At least Discord doesn't have these sinister recommender AIs.
At this point, I can only say one thing fairly confidently:
We're certainly living in a timeline
Definitely one of the timelines of all time
May you live in times that are times.
just look at this. this is such a fascinating image. it's so surreal. how did we get here?
You are asking the wrong question.
Its not, "how did we get here" its "How do we get there"
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Lol "pirate flag". I've never watched One Piece but its from that isn't it? They raised an anime flag
In One Piece, the main characters are pirates, sure, but that doesn't make them 'anti-heroes'.
This is because the world government of One Piece is Authoritarian / Fascist / Feudalist.
As is any government of sufficient size.
This flag has been used all over Asia by youth to express unity in dissatisfaction with corruption and a system that is stacked against them. I think it started in Indonesia, but I am not sure.
Nepal is officially an Emperor Luffy's territory.
Look at what the Kirk assassin wrote on their cartridges.
Internet meme culture is just culture now.
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This is fascinating, I expected Karki to be a GenZ or Millenial guy, she is a 73 year old woman.
This is my nightmare, I can never keep track of any information on Discord. It's just chaos.
Nowadays -
"I'm having trouble with x."
"Okay. Open a ticket"
"Oh, thanks. Okay, so"
"—on the official discord."
To usenet! Let's start a new world order.
Smaller countries are easier to get new governments in. The bigger it is the harder it is to oust a leader, let alone get better leadership in after.
I think these south asians are on to something with their methods of protesting here, idk if I can say this on here but targeting the homes of lawmakers garnered by corrupt means, and government buildings, seems to be a good strategy.
Sri lanka, indonesia, and nepal all did this recently and I think I am missing some even.
They imposed term limits on comfortable politicians.
It's one of the best things you can do to combat corruption.
Idk the term limits will help or hurt here. Being limited our lawmakers would sell out all the harder to set themselves up in their last term. It makes sense for executive positions because they can cement themselves in power.
I believe the answer is to organize and find and groom our own candidates that can win. Ones that will acknowledge and address the actual sources of our problems, which would be massively popular with voters you better believe it.
We tried protesting politicians houses in the UK a couple years ago. And even though the PM and his family wasn't there, and all they did was hang up a banner, the narrative was about how they were intimidating him with violent threats against his family and was widely condemed.
Bangladesh, Pakistan. Even Thailand. India would be devastating but it seems on the horizon
So the US should balkanize before they get better leadership
Unironically yes. We should still have a regional compact or something but clearly things are not working. People have wildly different visions of how the country should be run and this stupid power struggle isn’t helping anyone.
So, like a union... Of American states... The problem is that we've already got that, but people don't participate in those local governments. They show up once every 4 years to vote for president, and get mad when that doesn't magically fix everything.
If the feds didn’t have the power to control everything in society this problem would solve itself. Also there shouldn’t be a president either.
No, no it wouldn't. The issues are systemic, not the result of the federal government's existence. Did Britain become less corrupt after leaving the EU? No, because Britain's problems are systemic to their own politics.
It might make the fight more local, but that's already the case. You can already campaign for change in your state, but people don't do that. The average American doesn't know their local representatives, and don't engage in local poltics. You have to change that attitude, and convince people in the concept of a civil society, in which they are actively participating members.
None of this relates to what I was saying. The UK already had its own sovereign government, otherwise it wouldn’t have been able to leave so easily.
I’m just saying the feds didn’t have so much power people wouldn’t pay so much attention to them and would pay more attention to their local stuff. Which would be good for democracy.
I’d like to see government focused on the neighborhood level whenever possible. Only move up to the next one if there is an unsolvable issue.
This is not the only change that’s needed so it won’t fix everything on its own but it would allow people to make much more effective decisions about their own lives instead of people in Kansas deciding things about local DC law enforcement like we do now. That’s bonkers.
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New live action one piece is looking pretty good
The organizing appears to have worked. On Friday, the military accepted the recommendation of the protest group and named Karki the interim prime minister.
If only this is how it could go down in the US. Sigh…
but ... it would be very un-American to fight corruption and listen to the demands of the people.
Unfortunately, when it happens here its going to be a long, awful, drawn out, bloody conflict.
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I totally forgot they used the Straw Hat flag XD
They have a lot to teach us. I for one, welcome our Nepali overlords!
I still have this tab open from 5 days ago: Wife of Ex-Nepali PM Burned Alive, Gen Z Revolt Engulfs Country: Live Updates
I go back to it every day to check whether it's still there because it feels so surreal that i think it's somehow just a dream and i'm going to wake up every moment now and the news story will have disappeared.
On the other side of the same coin, a Nepali minister abandoned his wheelchair-bound wife to flee the mob. The mob extracted her from the building, carried her to safety, and got her to a local hospital… Then they resumed burning down the building.
And that’s the kind of strict laser focus that a revolution should have. You’re not revolting to hurt people or burn things down; you’re revolting because of what the people at the top have done. Destruction is a message, not the goal.
Huh that sounds totally reasonable. Can't see any issues.
Except Discord. That's just stupid. At least use something E2EE.
The title is extremely misleading. No one is running a country via discord. The your rebelled successfully and after ousting the former pm they were asked by the military for a new pm rexommendation. They had discussions about that on discord and gave their recommendation afterwards. That's all there is to it, no one is holding cabinet meetings via discord. The interim pm probably doesn't even know what discord is.
Why would you use E2EE for a group with over 100000 members?
I also kinda doubt stuff like matrix could handle that many users. All-in-all, and I say this as not the biggest fan of discord, I think it was an okay choice.
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Does anyone who follows Nepali politics know if this is going to turn into a color revolution? Are western powers successfully using this as a pretense to get a right-wing government in?
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