It's known in the industry as the throw-hardware-at-it optimization. It's often effective and what's needed to buy time for software optimization to come in.

80/20, Lemmy/Reddit.

Trending to 100/0.

It's a planned feature if I'm not mistaken.

That won't change anything. The financial incentives from investors driving this will demand similar policies even if they get redressed in different marketing.

Great, so it's reproducible and Lemmy-the-app related, not instance-specific. Should be fixable across the board once it's identified and resolved.

Tons upon tons of spam accounts on spam instances:

And some, I assume, are real users.

Yes. Countries where the observable reality aligns closer with the official message. The more divergence, the higher the importance of the official message to be heard and uncontradicted, in order to maintain the shared reality within the country. The closer the message to what people see and feel around them, the less important the message is.

For example, in a country where people make ends meet with great difficulty it would take persistent message that the economy is doing well to convince them in that. People can see that it's difficult to make ends meet. If the official message stops contradicting that reality, the reality will become more apparent. In contrast in a country where people have high disposable income and the official message on the economy is that things are doing well, the two align. If the official message stops, the reality keeps being the same, people keep noticing that they're doing well. And so the official message wouldn't significantly affect the shared reality among the people of that country. Therefore it isn't as important. Reality speaks for itself if you will.

Does this behaviour appear on other big instances? E.g. lemmy.ml?

Testing.

E: Seems to work.

Putting higher share of profits into workers' bank accounts strengthens aggregate demand. In other words more money for truck loans.

They would love the NLRB to be unconstitutional wouldn't they...

United we stand in shitting on the Nazis.

Yes.

Diaspora, here, we, come!

Same. It's on the Fediverse stats page though. Second largest app after Mastodon.

This guy risk-rewards.

Agreed. I'll keep shitting on the Nazis.

But seriously, your post makes some strong assumptions with nothing to back them up. For example that depriving advertisers from impressions from a shit ton of users (due to the missing content) and therefore depriving Reddit from that revenue would hurt less than leaving those impressions but attach more garbage content to the ads. If anything, more enshittified platforms like Facebook and garbage media like Fox have proven that advertisers can live with quite a bit of shit around their ads. And so the assertion that this is some 4D chess move on the side of the Nazis doesn't hold water for me.

The time-limited strike argument is also flimsy. Nothing stops the mod community to do this again next week for longer or even indefinitely. The time limit doesn't guarantee Reddit that this won't happen again and for longer. And so I don't see how that's less scary than indefinite strike.