cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/536301
The Russia’s State Social University (RSSU) has launched a “social rating” platform that claims to build a person’s “social portrait” with possible applications in future government policies.
Named “We,” the platform promises to determine a user’s comparative “social status” based on a survey that includes questions about income, family status, benefits, creditworthiness, criminal record, lifestyle and state awards, among others.
“The social rating figures don’t affect [a person’s] life, the availability of services or the career trajectory in any way,” RSSU said on the platform’s website. “But who knows what these figures will mean for you in the future?”
Observers on social media compared the platform’s name “We” to the highly influential 1921 dystopian novel of the same name by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin. [The novel “We” describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state. It inspired British author George Orwell to write his own novel, “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, which was published in 1949.]
Make an instance that federates both with mainstream Lemmy and Lemmygrad if you want both sides - and trust me, you don’t.
So am I to take it from your inference that the Russian Lemmy site is called Lemmygrad?
Do your own research if you really want to verify that claim but bring a hazmat suit.
You know what an inference is and seem curious about the world…that will not play well in Lemmygrad. Good luck and Godspeed, tho.
it’s just called that, it’s not meaningfully Russian. But also people exaggerate, it’s not as bad as all that- my instance lemm.ee federates with both and I haven’t run into too many issues.