maplebar @ maplebar @lemmy.world

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Need I remind you how the last civil war went?

The west and the north east will be ready to fight, and we have plenty of military bases, equipment, infrastructure, logistics, money and people to fight with. The neo-confederate rednecks will be cut off from trade in every direction, as we quickly take both coasts and form alliances with allied countries (not just Canada and Mexico, but also Europe, Japan, and South Korea, who will need to continue trading with coastal American states).

All the 400 lb good ol' boy mall ninja rednecks in the world are not going to be able to face the reality of what will come to them if they fuck with the west coast. People in Buttfuck, Oklahoma will be eating dust off the ground in the dark by the time we are done with them. And this time there will be no forgiveness or reconstruction.

it wont

...unfortunately the car is stuck in reverse...

None of this is good, and it's going to cause a lot of big problems across just about everything but, theoretically at least, none of it is unsalvageable.

Remember that elections are run by the states, not the federal government.

So unless you live in one of the most hardcore Trump-sucking red states, you likely will be able to vote in 2026 and 2028, your vote will probably be fairly counted, and you will be able to determine not just the makeup of Congress 2 years from now, but also the types of people that we send to represent our interests and fight back against Trump.

Of course, Trump is wasting no time grabbing power, but it still remains to be seen whether or not Congress and the Supreme Court will surrender their power enough for him to get away with it. As much as the massive cucked-out bitches in Congress and SCOTUS pretend they love Trump, they actually hate his guts and are just as hungry for their own power as he is for his.

Finally there is the possibility of a genuine constitutional crisis in which Trump rejects the concept of shared power by coequal branches of government, in which case the entire constitution is rendered null and void and the USA completely ceases to exist as a federal entity and the union breaks down.

This would probably lead to a civil war, in which case the side that wins is the one that has the best logistics and strategy. I'm confident that the blue states, especially in an alliance with Canada and Mexico, would have no problem beating the land-locked redneck morons in flyover country. All that would be required is to bring the fight to the Southern coastal areas. They'd be totally surrounded and blocked in from trade on every side.

Shit I coulda told ya that, man.

Having the AG there is the only paper-thin facade stopping it from obviously looking like absolute dictatorial authority. By having another name on the page it gives them the ability to say "it's not just Trump who decides the law, the AG weighs in too". Ignoring the fact that the AG is up his ass and serves Trump's every whim.

This is the straw that broke the back of American law and justice. Unless the SCOTUS slaps this EO down with the strongest of force as soon as possible, the American experiment is over.

Hey man, rule #1, no stupid questions.

It's right in the name.

"This is not just a crime, it's a reflection of [a] system that enables [the] rich to treat [the] poor as disposable," another said.

Nothing else needs to be said.

Good that they changed the name.

A block of fresh yeast.

He's a changeling.

He's coming to terms with it, if in a slightly judgemental boomer "this can still be fixed" sort of way.

Look at the date, lmao.

You sound like the type of guy who drives a cybertruck and practices Elons "odd hand gesture" in your bedroom at night.

They fear open source software because it is one of the only thing that threatens their technofascist hegemony.

This only further proves that we are investing in platforms that are chipping away at them.

Herein lies a problem I’ve had for a while, actually. It’s hard to tell people about Lemmy, because “Lemmy” isn’t really a website, or an app, or even a platform, really. It’s a protocol that anybody can use. For instance, we’re not really posting comments here on Lemmy, as much as we are posting comments via Lemmy.

Yeah... I agree.

One problem is that the names of software projects like "Mastodon" and "Lemmy" get mixed in with the names of servers like "mastodon.social", "mastodon.art", "lemmy.world", "lemmy.ml", etc.

That creates a lot of unnecessary confusion for potential new users, because they end up conflating the software with the server, thus missing the big idea of the fediverse completely: that a bunch of servers, even those running different software, can talk with each other to form one big social network.

But it's kind of a moot point because there probably isn't much that can be done about that now.

I just hope that in the future people will avoid using software names in their server branding, because it only confuses people.

You're probably right about Lemmy/threadiverse communities. I really don't put much thought into what server someone is posting from.

But when it comes to Mastodon I kind of wish that I was on a server with a tighter local community so that I could make more use of features like the local-only feed and local posts. Obviously I can switch to a smaller server or make my own, so it's not really a problem, but with Mastodon there are features that theoretically benefit from having stronger local communities.

Still, the meat of this suggestion is really just to use invites as yet another way to bring people into servers, in addition to having a big list of fully open servers, as well as application-based closed servers.

The beauty of FOSS though is if someone wants it bad enough, they can implement it themselves.

For sure. I've contributed to FOSS projects before. There are a few big hurdles between idea and implementation though.

Personally I don't know enough about web development or the software stack involved in various fediverse projects to be of much help with implementation right now. So the only thing I can really do at this point in time is put the idea out there, whatever little that's worth.

So not closed off as in non-federated, just invite only?

Yeah. We're talking about using invites to onboard people onto servers.

So a barrier like the ones that have applications, but based on something other than fiktering who joins the community? Not only is that counter to the entire point of federation, but invite only approaches only works for closed systems. Nobody is going to wait for an invite when they can just join any server.

Would you rather be invited to an event or fill out an application?

There's way less friction involved in sharing an invite code.

I also don't think that closed servers are "counter to the entire point of federation". Federation is about servers talking to other servers, it has nothing to do with how individual servers grow.

And if people don't care to wait for an invite to join a specific server, and they'd rather take the initiative to join a different server right away, that's fine too. They're still in the fediverse either way.

The topic of sharing invite codes is geared towards the type of people who aren't going to take that initiative in the first place. We get rid of the need for them to understand how the fediverse works by just giving them a ticket into some specific server. They can take it or leave it.