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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • Politics isn’t a one dimensional spectrum. We use terms like left, right, and center. But that ignores other directions like up and down, forward and back.

    Forward doesn’t mean center. Open primaries for example. Both Republicans and Democrats fight against them. Are open primaries Left or Right? Or something else?

    The truth is neither of our parties are responsive to the people. Democrats proved it in the last nomination, basically ignoring anyone that wasn’t Biden/Harris. Republicans are proving it now, in their refusal to do town halls. Supporting a party that’s literally being built to respond bottom up, rather than top down; And isn’t beholden to the traditional media driven, overly simplistic “Left” “Right” duopoly, can only be a good thing.

    This video may help.



  • That sounds good.
    I’m not saying that they shouldn’t be able to interoperate at all. Just that this kind of thing isn’t, and never will be ideal. I’m pushing back on the idea, that one account for all the Fediverse is the best and greatest, that everyone should be striving for that goal.

    It’s a principal of reality. Trying to make something that can do everything, will mean it’s not great at anything. Specialization is what allows society to grow to what it is. The Fediverse is no different.







  • I follow topics and have discussions on Lemmy, keep up with individuals and announcements on Mastodon, and look at cool photos on Pixelfed.
    None of my accounts are following anything on other systems.

    The reason I’m in this community is for discussions like this. We disagree on the nature of using he fundamental architecture of the Fediverse.
    I think using Mastodon to engage in Lemmy discussions is extremely awkward without the threading to keep it all organized. Equally, Lemmy is designed specifically around following communities. Following individuals on Mastodon breaks the pattern of the feed. And good luck following either Mastodon accounts or Lemmy groups in Pixelfed.

    However, having multiple decentralized servers within each system, is plenty of reason for the Fediverse to be better than a centralized platform. They don’t Need to interoperate with each other.






  • Yes.
    Op isn’t expecting an all or nothing. I’m suggesting they should expect nothing. All isn’t even worth talking about.

    And yes.
    I’ve never deleted anything online. Never had a reason to. If I ever imagined a reason I’d want to delete something, I wouldn’t post it to begin with. Because I know I can’t delete it. See how that works. So what if I was wrong, or embarrassing, that’s part of being human, own you’re mistakes and move on. Don’t hide them. They are who you were. They are how you got where you are. They’re responsible for who you’ve become. Take pride in the failings of your past.