You’ll never have definitive proof because the vast majority of people in media doing fed work are assets and mostly unwitting assets. They’re not actual case officers, meaning they’ll always be plausible deniability. For stuff like Breadtube, all the feds have to do is create thousands of fake Patreon accounts and funnel money to the channels they want to platform. The only Breadtube channel that’s actually close to a witting asset instead of an oblivious useful idiot is that Southern anarchist larper (I forgot the dude’s name) who got busted trafficking Ukrainian (?) women. It’s pretty obvious he’s taking marching orders from some handler. But for almost everyone else, it’s just useful idiots getting platformed by the feds through (not so) clandestine means.

Richard Medhurst on being held up in solitary confinement and facing political persecution for his journalism and political beliefs:
https://xcancel.com/richimedhurst/status/1825663412904288585

The Ballot or the Bullet

Why is the driver seat on the right side of the car while the car is on the right side of the road?

I blame the tree view for the reason why Lemmy threads have performance issues relative to old school forum threads and why you can only see a max number of comments. There’s a max number of comments you can see per sorting, so by sorting new and old, you can see double the max number of comments, but there’s still a max number.

R*ddit was truly multiple steps backwards from phpBB forums.

Me destroying someone’s tl;dr novela of a post with “[bad take] upvoter.”

Broke: Making upvotes public so people are held accountable over what they upvote.

Woke: Taking away upvotes so people have to comment if they agree with a post.