We do not need a constellation. We do not need more space junk.

We need fibre everywhere.

If you follow a community (or a user, if you’re using something that allows following user accounts, which Lemmy does not) on a remote website, that website will send the website you’re using a copy of all future content they post, and your website will include it in your feeds (as well as in the sites’s ‘global’ feed). It doesn’t really matter what software those other sites are running, so long as they A) use ActivityPub, B) have federation turned on, and C) have not blacklisted the website you’re using.

It’s like following a Twitter user or a Reddit subreddit from Facebook. And it highlights that that’s a thing they all could have done, if they all wanted to work together to make it happen.

They didn’t. Fedvierse developers do.

So, there are different types of… the jargon term is “actors”, but you can think of them as, like, accounts. Each user has an ‘actor’ associated with it, and each ‘actor’ has an inbox. But there are also group actors, which are not individuals, but more like a system or bot account. Group actors just “boost” (reblog/re-shaere/etc.) content that is sent to them.

You can follow other actors, both on your own website, as well as on other sites. When you follow a remote account, your host site will request the remote site send all future content posted or “boosted” by that account to your host website, and then your host website will add it to your feed.

Different software allows different kinds of requests. Mastodon makes no distinction between user or group accounts, and let you follow all of them. Lemmy, though, uses group actors for its communities, and only allows users to follow groups. This means that Mastodon users can see Lemmy discussions, and contribute to them, but Lemmy users cannot follow Mastodon users or interact with their posts unless they’ve been boosted by a group actor.

Other software has other abilities. nodeBB lets group actors follow other group actors, which has the potential for mutual group synchronization. mbin has both a Reddit-like interface as well as a separate microblog feed, separating out group and user content. Hubzilla (and I think Friendica?) allows accounts to have multiple actors, letting you manage multiple ‘personas’ from a single login. And they all speak the same language, which means they can accept content from all the others.

I’ve had to get a criminal background check for most jobs I’ve ever had, a check that my employer gets to see before they decicde to hire me.

Only seems fair that people running for office have something similar.

It’s a familiar enough looking place, with some good discussions. But what’s super cool - at least to me - is that “Lemmy” isn’t just Lemmy. There are people here using websites running all sorts of engines. Mbin is a different reddit-like platform that cross-communicates with Lemmy. Friendica is a Facebook-like engine that can talk with Lemmy. NodeBB is a traditional forum. Mastodon, Misskey, and Akkoma are Twitter-like platforms that can show up here, too.

It’s a mesh network, with each node having different strengths and weaknesses, different UIs and UXes, and different rules and goals.

It’s both familiar, and also something totally different, both at the same time.

Welcome to the wilderness!

Well, Reddit endorses fascists, so I think it makes perfect sense already, really.

“Don’t hurt my friends”

That’s the point. Opposition bills in the US are often put forth to force members of the majority party to publicly vote against it, so that there is public record of their position on things.

It’s an easy system to game, too, since it’s trivially easy to include a poisoned pill in the bill that will push the members to reject it.

100%. The people who have turned away from the Republican party have only done so out of a distaste for Trump, and maybe Elon. They are almost certainly not opposed much of what is being done, just how they are going about it, and who is doing it.

Or, they’ve just had their faces eaten by leopards, and are upset that they’re suffering the consequences of their actions.

You don’t get to be a Republican in 2016 or 2024 without being ok with burning the whole system down, with dreams of it being to your own benefit. They just don’t trust the current would-be monarchs to be the ones to actually give them what they believe they’re due.

Anyone in the system is a servant of the billionaires, and that is most of us. The masters tools and all that. I don’t know about you, but I’m not living a life of subsistence farming in some forgotten plot of land with no meaningful interaction with the outside world.

But that doesn’t mean servants can’t or won’t look out for other servants.

They also had their god emperor refusing to wear masks, and political leaders openly denying the disease.

They had support for their grievences.

They won’t get that over the economy. Instead, they’re getting “this is necessary” and “you’ll just have to make some sacrifices for the economy”.

Hasn’t Trump already said this? This isn’t the press sec saying anything Orange Mussolini hasn’t already been explicit about. It’s one of their talking points.

Canada: Has a supply management system for dairy, is careful not to overproduce, exports next to nothing.

USA: Subsidises dairy overproduction, can’t sell close to what it makes, and desperately wants to dump its product on foreign markets.

Who is this supposed to hurt?

The thing is, should people have the right for their voice to be louder than others, and to participate with more force, just because they have more money?

Really tempted to say things that will get me put on various lists now.

I long for the day when the American empire is forgotten by the history books.

Oh, owned by Linus Media. Yay?

:-/

“Canadians didn’t travel back in time to prevent their past selves from going to Florida” is… an interesting boast, to say the least.

It’s mostly each province having different regulations, standards, definitions, or licensing bodies around things that are provincially governed.

Most of it is businesses not being willing to jump through thr hoops in all provinces, or those hoops making the end product overly expensive if sold in a national format.

The thing is, they don’t get the job done. And one of their jobs is to win over the hearts and minds of the electorate, and they can’t even make small inroads on that when people are frustrated and ready for change.

The party has presented no clear vision for voters to latch on to, and I say this as someone who volunteers for them.

In terms of the history of the game, the CPC changed their name to the PCPC when the Premier of Manitoba, who lead the provincial Progressive party, took over party leadership and insisted that ‘Progressive’ be added to the name. The guy thought he’d get his voters to vote conservative, but they just abandoned him in the process and voted Liberal.

It never represented policy position. It was just one guy trying to bring some brand recognition along with him, and failing. As with most conservative language usage, it was all about confusing the issue and conning voters into supporting them.

Moosehead’s a New Brunswick-based company, owned by the Olands, which are a significant name in the Canadian beer industry. It’s an old and well-established company, with significant means (at least compared to other independent brewers). They stand to do well from this.

Breweries on the islands do not have the distribution networks necessary to capitalize on this, and are much more likely to see themselves smothered by, well, Mooshead and the like, than they are to benefit.