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  • On stochastic terrorism, Wikipedia:

    The meanings of the words composing the term stochastic terrorism help to clarify its definition. “Stochastic” is an adjective which describes something that is random, or involves chance or probability (is probabilistic).[3][4] While definitions of terrorism vary, this one contains the common and important elements: "the unlawful use of violence or threats to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or government, with the goal of furthering political, social, or ideological objectives.[5] Stochastic terrorism, then, would be random or probabilistic terrorism.

    This terrorist scenario is stochastic because with the public demonization of a target, a terrorist act against the target is not certain but is made more likely. It is also stochastic because the identity of the terrorist and the timing and means of the attack cannot be predicted.




  • I can tell you my personal experience with this.

    •there’s a lot of content on the surface, but most of it comes from automated accounts and reposts. Posting anything on any subreddit is increasingly hard. Mods and users do what they can

    •the anti spam automated system is off the roof, you can easily trigger that with a new account, and both mods and users can fall victim of that.

    •the recommendation system is liquid filth. You touch a post once, now you’re getting flooded with content from that subreddit. You can turn off the recommendation system deep in the settings, certainly not in a user friendly context.

    •notification galore: even if you turn off those recommended posts, those can be notified by the app (or via email) at any given time. So I accidentally interacted with some awful subreddit, now I’m getting said subreddit notified at 4 am. Not even kidding here. Not even tiktok dared to send me as much notifications as the reddit app/website.

    •lots of hate speech. If you leave the good subs, you can find openly racist posts (muted shitpotlicssay after n-word posting, both in the title and in the comments) and extremism in general.

    Unfortunately it’s still a useful resource for technical subs, which are still good, but reddit as a whole is fvched beyond belief.


  • It became useless partly due to the overmarketing and the reliance on ads, of annoyingly useless websites using SEO to stay ahead of legitimate resources (happened so many times now it’s terrible), but also for the aformentioned reason: everyone published on their social media (walled gardens) so they don’t appear on search engines. Particularly evident with dicord and facebook groups taking over forum. Well, they won’t ever appear on a search engine. Reddit is an exception, but nowdays it’s completely app-centric, the web ui is terrible (the app is even worse if you dare using it).