Truly a universal experience. Even the teams don’t take themselves as seriously as the fans do

Fun stuff unless played in a colosseum

Conditions are ripe for radicalising football fans, I’d say. I think anyone can see the sport being killed this time, and this is a frontier that I think is both old and new at the same time. There is a lot of theory about media and consumption, but sports gets viewed as apolitical when it’s just not.

Even the rules have become technicalised. Football managers are probably going to incentivise players to play lifelessly even more than before. Nevertheless, I live in a country where there is a lot of love for foreign teams and that provides leeway for some political support. Considering this, I’m supporting Iran, hoping that I can reverse some of that internal bias towards popular teams.

The ex-redditor in me wants to say, “Downvotes should not be used for disagreement, derp”. It’s one of the (UX?) flaws with this format.

Also as a leftist instance, we want to avoid infighting through downvotes.

Sorry for latching on to your comment. Seemed the best place to say this

While on Reddit, I vaguely remember there being discourse on how upvotes should be for adding to the discourse only. Also that there was some archaic form of AI baked into the algorithm so that users who upvoted en masse would not have their votes counted.

While I wouldn’t want AI in any form for moderation, I think this discussion is necessary and perhaps we ought to have more information on how it is meant to encourage discussion through upvotes, whether or not we use downvotes.

I believe it can be used as a tool for good. But, bear with me here - GenAI for the public good requires a good enough understanding of the forces of production. The way all AI, including Open Source AI functions benefits companies with a large stake already - due to compute requirements, data availability and a host of other resource constraints. We also simultaneously risk losing capabilities and knowledge across traditional tool uses to a mirage of capabilities embedded in our very own individually purchased softwares - capabilities built on language models behind subscription tiers.

I know it might sound like a stretch, but there are possibilities/situations where the third solution you opted for becomes oppressive. As there is no way for the person to move out of that house in a capitalist society, they end up working there as bonded labour. I’m sure there are ways out of it through some sort of communitarian model which guarantees equality

YouTube has always been arbitrary about its copyright strikes, but platform capitalism has a unique way of lending itself to enshittification on every front. Now it is a result of Big Tech backing Big AI. First we were onboarded and now we are being forced to lend our personalities to AI and its “agents”.

My app, “Voyager” keeps going down momentarily too, but so do a bunch of other social media websites. Don’t know if it’s the fascist government or my ISP playing tricks