Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia, with nine other people on board also dead
  • Jo MiranEnglish
    11•2 years ago

    Am I the only one that thinks he staged his own death?

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    10•2 years ago

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  • XeroEnglish
    55•2 years ago

    He should have gone all the way when he started the mutiny against Putin. He would be dead either way but at least he had the chance to take Hitler’s disciple with him to hell.

  • @theprecursor@lemmy.mlEnglish
    722•2 years ago

    Wow, I’ve been browsing Twitter, Reddit and Lemmy for the past few hours. I’m surprised to see such breaking news first in Lemmy instead of Twitter or Reddit.

    Awesome! Hope the Fidiverse keeps on growing to become bigger than Reddit and Twitter.

    • @ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6•2 years ago

      I think it’s only a matter of time. The enshitification of reddit is guaranteed, it’s really inevitable and it’s going to keep getting worse. Long live the Fediverse!

    • @someguy3@lemmy.caEnglish
      64•2 years ago

      Reddit hot sorts more by popular, so things take a long time to rise up.

      Lemmy hot seems to be (too much) biased to new. Can be a bad thing because it looks like things don’t get popular. They do but you don’t see it by hot, you see it by top 12 hour.

      • @frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
        10•2 years ago

        The one thing current Reddit seems to do right is give smaller subreddits a chance to show up on Hot. Lemmy tends to be a little too simple, and the frontpage gets dominated by the one or two big groups.

        • @Wxnzxn@lemmy.mlEnglish
          6•2 years ago

          Yeah, I’m pretty happy with the sorting algorithm in general for the way content gets presented, but some weighting to better include smaller communities would be great. Lemmy is still struggling with getting a critical mass in users to support niche interests, and a better post sorting could help a bit at least.

      • kamenLady.English
        5•2 years ago

        Yesterday i switched to active for a while, because hot was almost identical to new.

      • VeloxizationEnglish
        19•2 years ago

        I think the algorithm for Lemmy’s hot sorting is just based on interactions within time unit. The newer the post, the more valuable an upvote is.

      • @brockpriv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        67•2 years ago

        Early 2010s Reddit was so addicting, if there was something in the world it was on the front page in 15 minutes. I remember being excited to check on Reddit after waking up to see that was the event of the day.

        After 2016 the algo was screwed up and it became a cesspool of reposts and news were late to show up.

      • DarkThoughts
        6•2 years ago

        On Reddit you want to sort by “Rising” for this sort of breaking news stuff.

        • @flipthetube@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3•2 years ago

          Now I learn this, 2 months after tossing that platform in the bin.

          After years of wondering where the hell the breaking news went…

  • RoboRay
    1•2 years ago

    Flying out of Moscow and the plane goes down… what are the odds?

  • 18-24-61-B-17-17-4English
    23•2 years ago

    This for real? Figured it was coming but haven’t seen any mention of it elsewhere.

  • HexesofVexesEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    Clearly a case of Russian suicide. The kind only the state can arrange.

  • @Astroturfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    I am SHOCKED. This is such weird timing. Shortly after staging a revolt against their fearless leader that made him look weak. I’m sure that is completely unrelated.

  • @N00dle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    Well Putin seems to be killing everyone now. This along with the other former commander general. The world is truly losing great men, lol. They get what they deserve.

  • DestideEnglish
    20•2 years ago

    9 other people… show me other coup members!