volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@copiedcopies The protocol that mastodon is based on does not support DMs, so no.

And it's really important that people realize that in the federated world that kind of privacy kind of doesn't exist. People need to realize they don't really have privacy here.

@realTuckFrumper from this report it sounds like Cheney doesn't have the high ground here, deflecting from the allegations against her, and so herself being the one taking part in a "cowardly assault on the truth."

If she's in the right she could have just answered the allegations head on.

@mark I mean not really though.

That's how federation works, the different instances get to choose who they want to deal with. That is both a positive and a negative to the structure of federation.

Allowing instances to choose for their users who to federate with is not my flavor, but it is what it is.

@realcaseyrollins frankly, I don't think it's her ideology, I think it's her personality. It just really doesn't connect with people, it comes across as aloof and out of touch.

I think she lost largely because she seemed like a non-serious person, a joke.

And the position called for someone who would be taken more seriously.

@elbucho

@breedlov Trump may try to do a lot of things, but let's be clear, there's a whole lot of things he can't do, so he'll be as big a failure in trying to do them as he was the last time he tried to do them.

Also let's be clear that not many people fully like the USPS. It's a constant source of derision in this country.

But regardless, Trump can't privatize the USPS no matter what he or anyone else thinks of it. It's not going to happen. He doesn't have the authority to do it.

@kctipton pretty much anyone with the ability to engage with the public and stand on a coherent platform while calling Trump out could have run away with the election.

Harris has a long track record of failing to do exactly those basic things, and after she was nominated, she failed to do exactly those basic things.

If you name almost any high profile, successful Democrat, they probably would have won if not one by a landslide. The Harris loss was just so predictable though.

@AnneTheWriter1 @berniethewordsmith

@QasimRashid Trump was not convicted of rape, which is the entire point of the settlement.

We should be highlighting that this is not the cowardice of legacy media, but rather legacy media being called out for misleading the public.

Yeah, independent voices are more critical than ever, and ABC's misleading reporting here emphasizes that.

@Cotopaxi that argument is not new, though. It's the exact same argument that's been made for hundreds of years, and even as the buggy whip manufacturers laid off employees, people are still buying things.

So it's not a very realistic argument.

Ai isn't going to replace all the human workers, but it will lower the costs of production so that the huge swaths of remaining human workers will be able to afford more.

Just as always.

@tokensane as I recall, the jury specifically found that the charges of rape were not convincing.

So it's a little more than just a narrow definition. It's an active choice by the ones judging him.

@david_megginson

My memory of Bluesky is the opposite, but I'm not at a computer to double check that right now.

As I recall, ActivityPub is the hub and spoke with instances acting as hubs to the spokes of user interfaces while BlueSky allows users to engage through multiple repeaters (whatever they call them) avoiding that point of failure.

@cwebber

@joecardillo The excerpt that you posted talked about more speech, freer speech. They can say what they want as long as other people can say what they want.

Sounds like a fan of free speech.

@FreakyFwoof That's literally not an active choice though

@raintrees That's not the official story.

@LaD_Hallo only if our elected senators approve it.

@byteseu

@david_megginson

The thought occurs that it's not so black and white because functionality changes depending on what you're observing and from where.

For example, you might argue that removal of a minor node would have no discernible impact on the overall system, but it would have a critical impact on the few users of that node.

I've long said that Fediverse isn't so much decentralized as re-centralized around instances. So I guess that's what people mean by federated instead of decentralized.

It seems like Bluesky addresses this better, being more decentralized in terms of not being reliant on instances.

@cwebber

@manton that sort of two minutes hate is part of what the status quo uses to keep the population on their side, though. It doesn't do any good, but it does let officials avoid accountability for their own failings.

Don't hate these executives. But for goodness sake let's stop reelecting the powerful political figures that maintain the system.

@byteseu Right, but the problem is that representatives like AOC voted to create this State of affairs through statute.

Yeah, the state of healthcare sucks. Let's hope we stop reelecting the representatives that cause it sooner than later!

@SheepOverboard@mastodon.au Well right, because such a lawsuit is about law and not health.

You don't go to the courts to complain about healthcare stuff. You go to the courts when the law has been broken, which is a completely different issue.

@LaD_Hallo It's an appointed position, not an election.

@byteseu

@john Well as per the protocol itself, you kind of don't.

The rest of the world has to ask, you don't really get to tell them unless they are already following you because of user interaction.