I eventually figured it out. I was searching in world@lemmy.ml—not world@lemmy.world. And the first time, I was looking in world@lemmy.world under ‘Top Week’, but didn’t quite scroll down far enough lol. It was just out of range of the first page. If I had hit ‘More Results’ or whatever, it would have been the very first one. Whoopsiedoodle lol

Anyway, it would be better if the ml vs. world mistake were more difficult to make, but yeah, human error.

Oh, good, then it’s just lemmy’s search function that is broken. Honestly, I am relieved. How did you find these?

This happened 5 days ago. I was shocked to find nothing about it in this community.

I am really questioning the ability of this community to find and post the most relevant international news. We need to do better.

EDIT: This was the result of a technical failure—not a community failure. Still, something is wrong.

On one hand, fuck social media. The recommender AIs that run it are only supposed to optimise engagement, thus optimising ad revenue. But they are far more powerful than that. They can influence public opinion as a whole. Totally out-of-band from the sovereignty of any nation. It is foolish to think that Google, Youtube, Facebook, Netflix, and Twitter aren’t abusing this power. Every responsible nation that wants to defend its sovereignty against recommender AIs must ban social media immediately, along with every other source of such recommendations.

On the other hand, everything else that happened in Nepal. I’m just glad the actual decisions happened on Discord, the least terrible of the platforms. At least Discord doesn’t have these sinister recommender AIs.