It's not a matter of how ones profile would be accessed, but how it would be created in the first place snd how it would be managed.
Necessarily, those who implement the creation of accounts have control over how they're created, who is allowed to create them and how they will be handled after creation.
Any scheme to establish one "central" (your own term) account for the entire fediverse will necessarily be managed by one "central" service, which means one "central" authority over account creation and management
At this point, all it would take would be to successfully establish the precedent that legal citizens can have their citizenship revoked (which just requires a case getting to the Supreme Court, where the corrupt majority has already demonstrated that they're going to just rubber-stamp whatever Trump wants), then to issue an executive order declaring that [whatever quality] is [whatever has been deemed to be acceptable grounds to have ones citizenship revoked]. It would undoubtedly be challenged, but again, it would wind up in front of the Supreme Court sooner or later, and they'd rubber-stamp it
And here's a bit of a hint for the slow people out there - they don't need that many agents or that big of a budget if they're only dealing with immigrants.
Meaning is subjective and not intrinsic, so there can be no such thing as "the" meaning of anything.
The artist can have an intended meaning, but the audience not only can but will find their own meaning in it. It might be the case that the audience gets the same meaning from it that the creator intended, but it might just as easily be the case that they get some entirely different meaning from it.
None of them are right or wrong - that's not even a coherent concept in that context. They just are whatever they are.
That's why even as housing costs get further out of reach for more people, the politicians, at the behest of their wealthy cronies and patrons, are criminalizing homelessness. The goal is to essentially recreate 18th century workhouses.
And you'll count yourself lucky if you get sent to a workhouse instead of a foreign torture prison.
So the only question really is whether they're arranging things so that as China becomes the clear world leader in the coming era, the US will be relegated to being a bankrupt has-been, clinging to outdated technology nobody else wants any more because their explicit goal is to destroy the US or just because they're some stunning combination of corrupt and stupid.
I lean toward the latter, but can't entirely discount the former.
Well, first off it can't bhappen "to Lemmy" because Lemmy isn't va site - it's a piece of software.
It not only can and will but already has happened to individual instances. And they end up getting defederated by other instances and then either fix the problem or fade away.
And individual users can just move to other instances (or if they're smart, just stop using or even delete their account on the problem instance and keep using their other accounts on other instances).
And through it all, the rest of the fediverse just keeps chugging along.
Which illustrates the key difference between Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed/etc. and traditional social media - the fediverse is flexible. Individual instances can and will and do come and go, and it doesn't affect the fediverse as a whole.
Amusingly enough, brazen astroturfing (especially in political subs) was one of the main reasons I was looking for an alternative to Reddit and found Lemmy. Two years ago.
It's possible - arguably even likely - that the Dem establishment still won't get the message and will instead continue to try to con us into supporting corrupt neolib hacks and will continue to undermine actual leftists.
In fact, I sort of half expect the New York party to abandon Mamdani and instead back a write-in campaign for Cuomo.
I wish I was kidding.
Even if they show never-before-seen integrity and determination and actualy shift back toward supporting actual leftists (or get replaced by a new generation of leaders who will), I still think it's likely going to be too late. The longer Trump and his ilk remain in office, the more likely it becomes that opposing them will just get you on the next flight to some overseas concentration camp, or dead, or both.
And the Trump administration will just keep appealing until cases get to the grotesquely corrupt and compromised conservative scumbags on the Supreme Court, who will completely ignore law, precedent, the Constitution and even simple logic as necessary in order to give him whatever he wants.
Projection is a handy defensive move, since it gets the accusation out there first, so if/when the same accusation is justifiably made against them, it sounds like childish "No — you are."
But I'm pretty sure that Vance, just like his boss, doesn't do it consciously and deliberately. Instead, like his boss, he projects because he's so intellectuslly and morally crippled that he can't even envision acting in any way other than he does.
For instance, he immediately assumes that Padilla's actions were political theater because the idea of making a stand driven by sincerity and integrity is so completely alien to him that it doesn't even cross his mind as a possibility. He immediately assumes it was theater because if it was him, that's exactly and all it could or would be.
Setting aside the veritable TITAN-loads of shady shit Palsntir is up to, it's also worth noting that Reddit's policy changes have made it clear that providing a platform for the spread of disinformation is a central part of its current business model, so I'd assume that not only is Palantir using it for that purpose, but that they are far from alone.
It's not a matter of how ones profile would be accessed, but how it would be created in the first place snd how it would be managed.
Necessarily, those who implement the creation of accounts have control over how they're created, who is allowed to create them and how they will be handled after creation.
Any scheme to establish one "central" (your own term) account for the entire fediverse will necessarily be managed by one "central" service, which means one "central" authority over account creation and management