Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin presumed dead after Russia plane crash
www.bbc.co.uk
The Russian private military company boss was on the passenger list of the jet which came down near Moscow.
  • @theprecursor@lemmy.mlEnglish
    52•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.

    • BarqsHasBiteEnglish
      4•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.

      • @brockpriv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5•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.

      • @frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
        1•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
          1•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.

      • DarkThoughts
        1•2 years ago

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

    • @ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0•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!

  • @ph00p@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9•2 years ago

    If anyone thinks this is going to change a thing about Wagner group, they’re taking stupid pills.

    These things are designed like any other group, someone will take his place.

  • Cylusthevirus
    7•2 years ago

    One of the cardinal rules of power struggles is “If you’re gonna shoot for the king, don’t miss.”

    • sab
      1•2 years ago

      Furthermore,

      Mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous; and if one holds his state based on these arms, he will stand neither firm nor safe; for they are disunited, ambitious and without discipline, unfaithful, valiant before friends, cowardly before enemies

      -- Machiavelli in the Prince

      Not to call out Putin’s Russia for being amateur hour, but the Prince is probably the first thing to read for an aspiring dictator.

  • @Kekzkrieger@feddit.deEnglish
    7•2 years ago

    While i dont like people being killed and everyone should get a fair trial, the world certainly isn’t a worse place with this guy dead and i aint gonna shed a tear for him

  • @wabafee@lemm.eeEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    Checklist to become an accident in Russia.

    • Windows: checked✅
    • Heights: checked✅
    • Back: checked✅
    • Crony: checked✅
    • Potential adversary: checked✅
  • @Matriks404@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    I don’t even know how to react to this news: On one hand Wagner Prigozhin is a person who is ideologically much worse than Putin (basically full-blown fascist as opposed to imperialist), but on the other hand he could have helped with increasing unrest in Russia which could technically mean chaos on Russian side of the front and opportunity for Ukraine to make some gains, but of course that’s long time due, due to giving up on march on Moscow.

  • Silverseren
    3•2 years ago

    Took longer than I expected. Hopefully the same thing happens to Putin next.

  • @bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    Damn I was hoping he would be able to cause more chaos inside Russia before Putin had him killed.