I wish we'd implement that in Sweden as well. As it is now, fines aren't even a consideration for the wealthy. Fat chance that happening with the current government though.
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Does seem like we're both getting the same kind of goverment. Looking forward to seeing how the populists fare being in power.
The'll make matters worse for sure and we can only hope for a turn of the tides regarding the current right wing wave. But if the global trends continue I'm rather pessimistic. The media landscape, especially in english-speaking countries are pretty heavily right wing. Not to mention twitter and facebook.
Hopefully Lemmy and other non-corporate owned media can make difference. But as these kind of platforms starts to gain traction so does the incentive to start AI-driven astroturfing here as well. But I guess we'll see.
Reddit continues to be fairly left leaning and I would assume the greater interconnected Lemmy/Fediverse will continue on that path. Never been to Facebook so I don't know what it looks like there.
The difference between Reddit and Twitter is that people actually post on Reddit. Twitter is what it is because people only visit Twitter, making it a very fertile ground for for example disinformation campaigns. Reddit, Mastodon and Lemmy should be fairly impervious to this because people actually participate.
I do hope you're right about that.