Why would a service that doesn't federate yet be included with the fediverse. If/when they do, sure. Until then, calling them part of the fediverse is really just being pedantic.
If you want me to prove a negative, I can't do that.
Youtube isn't profitable. Youtube has never been profitable. Frankly that's incredibly unlikely to change. Amazon isn't going to try to break into a space that is unprofitable, would require a monumental effort to actually draw creators (since just offering big creators money clearly didn't work, see mixer or anyone else), and requires astronomical amounts of data storage even for AWS. They're especially not going to do that when they just spent the last however many years watching multiple people do a much smaller task, take on twitch (again, mixer and the like), with zero success.
Would I love to see a not completely awful proper alternative to Youtube? Yes. It's that going to come from Amazon? No. And no, peertube isn't the answer either, and won't be unless there's an easy path to monetization for existing creators and data storage magically becomes free
Oh there is absolutely more we could be doing, especially regarding tracking dark money spending. I was primarily pointing out that "we should just get rid of lobbying" is an almost entirely nonsensical statement.
Because directly receiving money is already illegal. Anything currently legal is so because it's protected by the same things protecting local organizations putting up flyers/billboards/radio ads/etc. Even stricter monetary limits don't really work, as you end up catching things such national humane society ads, because if they contain any messaging regarding support for legislation/wanting new legislation it's considered lobbying.
It's really just an intro to the subject, but Knowing Better has a great video on it. Great leaping off point. The very short and very inadequate TL;DW is essentially that "get the money out of politics" doesn't actually mean anything.
Because at least in theory, lobbying is at the core of a functioning republic. If you and couple neighbors get together to try to convince your county aldermen to fix some potholes, that's lobbying. Any time a person tries to influence their representative, it's lobbying. It's incredibly difficult to have actual codified laws that allow the things you want without also opening up tons of loopholes for corruption.
One of those broken clocks being right twice a day things for Florida on this one. We were always lucky enough to not need to worry about food or the very basics, but my state's tax free day during back to school always helped a lot. Most stores would do extra sales during it as well, so school shopping ended up being a fair bit cheaper.
Just days without state sales tax. Some states have them, some don't. A lot of the time local municipalities keep their 1.5% sales tax on those days, so they see a pretty decent boost in revenue during them.
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If you're voting for Republicans, you're clearly OK with all of this, regardless of what you call yourself.