Is it necromancy if the subject is still alive?
FaceDeer
joined 2 years ago
By which country's standards?
If you've reached the point where you're hoping the NSA will rein in the abuses of the civilian government, it doesn't really matter who wins. America is lost.
It's sad. I remember road trip vacations to the US when I was a child. Pretty sure we didn't have passports. We'd reach the border, spend a few minutes answering questions, they'd check drivers' licenses and license plates. That was it. I remember one time we reached the border and dad remembered we'd picked up some oranges along with our travel supplies, and there was a thing about not bringing citrus fruit across. He told the border guard, the guard asked us to hand over the oranges, and that was it. They never searched our stuff.
IMO one of the major reasons Americans are like they are is the lack of experience travelling to other countries. I hope that doesn't start to become a problem for Canadians, given that America is by far the most convenient and inexpensive country to visit for most of us.
I don't consider it something to be "fixed." I like that the Fediverse is fully decentralized, with no authority over who gets "in" and who doesn't. Once you've got some kind of authority that can decide who's allowed on which instances, with some kind of global registry of individual users that can exclude you if the wrong people don't like you, we're basically back to being Reddit with some fancy extra steps.
Sure, it risks allowing assholes to continue getting new accounts. But we already have a Reddit, I'd rather try something new even if that comes with downsides.
The problem is that Trump doesn't understand what "tariffs" are, and thinks that a trade imbalance is somehow a tariff. Trying to comply would be like Mattingly trying to trim his sideburns.
Reddit is able to do global IP bans. The Fediverse is not able to do that because there's no "global".
"Asshole" is a broad term. It includes racists, abrasive personalities, anger-management problems, and so forth. Ie, people who have a tendency to get banned from other places. It's not just trolls.
Being banned from Reddit is a unitary action. They can't get back into Reddit, they're just gone. Whereas in the Fediverse you can just go to a different instance and sign up afresh each time you get banned. This is part of the Fediverse's design. And so I am concerned that the Fediverse will accumulate the worst users.
One thing that has been concerning me lately is that the Fediverse is being treated as a refuge for people who get banned on Reddit or other social media. Sure, sometimes those bans are based on arbitrary power tripping nonsense. But people actually do get banned for being assholes, and so I've got some worry that this is distilling the population of the Fediverse in an unfortunate direction.
Rule 3: Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs
That's why he's asking why he's not allowed to ask.
Content.