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[–] ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 40 points 3 days ago (1 children)

When I hear about this it just confirms exactly how struggling American families and their children are never going to have the American dream. All of that wealth is going to these guys.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Turns out that voters doing absolutely nothing to stop a self serving grifter rapist insurrectionist with a stated intention to do, and past record of doing just that, kinda does that.

But try telling the sitouts that.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 26 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I don't understand. It takes a fraction of a second to publish a post. Are they adding a delay to his posts, and then charging a fee to get them instantly? This article has like 2 dozen paragraphs and yet never explains.

[–] running_ragged@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Publishing the post sure.

But propagating notification alerts to followers isn’t reliably that fast.

Having a paid queue to be alerted first makes sense technically.

Huge ethical issues though. This is clearly just corruption. Pay me money and you’ll get insider trading information that won’t actually be called that.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Are they adding a delay to his posts, and then charging a fee to get them instantly?

Maybe. Or maybe they're just charging a vig for nothing.

Given how poor the site is built and managed, either is possible.

[–] 5opn0o30@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They can see the letters as he types.

[–] Sasquatch@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

That'd be fun to watch

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

That can only be what it is

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago

Kurt Vonnegut couldn't write something this overtly and stupidly corrupt

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 days ago

This admin certainly has been innovating. It's like a corruption onion.

[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

MORE CORRUPTION.

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Grifters gonna grift