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   Rozalia Sofia (redrozalia@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 22:27:23 JST Rozalia Sofia

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   @escarpment @VPS_Reports
   creepy public comments sounding like serial killers? republican party, check. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/7/2151410/-Yes-Republicans-are-discussing-genocide-against-LGBTQ-people <= (this is Vishal Singh again! Hi Vishal!)

   taking of american hostages? well, the country with proportionally the most people imprisoned is america: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/incarceration-rates-by-country and besides, in america, it is legal to force prisoners to work for nothing and to deny them the right to vote.

   jailing and torturing women for NOT wearing hijabs? to my knowledge this doesnt happen, but considering the fact that "muslim ban" and "muslim registry" have been serious suggestions by the republicans, i would argue the opposite is more possible.

   orwellian morality police? er... they do keep banning a shit ton of books. the smearing of trans and queer people as "groomers" has been going on for years. they overturned roe v. wade and are now attempting to ban abortion everywhere possible.

   sponsoring terrorist organizations? are you fucking kidding, have you read ANY recent american history? ruhollah khomeini, saddam hussein, manuel noriega, usama bin-laden, abu bakr al-baghdadi, all of these motherfuckers have been lent a hand by the u.s. at some point.

   so yes! you ARE in fact being disproportionally biased. all of these things are true of iran, yes, but they are at least as true if not more true of the u.s.a. and especially its extreme right-wing republican party.

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   xormetric (xormetric@pleroma.tentacle.expert)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 21:15:04 JST xormetric

   i often see people talking about protocols alone, as if they inherently provide greater good than platforms. but there are many kinds of protocols, and only one is actually desirable.

   you can have a protocol that interacts solely with one platform; an API is a protocol! and this protocol can easily be obscured by simply not documenting it. if only your app uses the API, it’s still an API, and it’s still a protocol that your app uses to communicate with your platform’s servers. suffice to say, you do not want this.

   so then, they just have to be documented and open to participants, right? that’s what the fediverse is with ActivityPub, at least… except that’s also what email is, and nobody uses any email server other than google’s, microsoft’s, or whatever other megacorp’s the most popular in their country. in fact, you really can’t; if you try and start your own mail server, your emails won’t just go into spam folders, they’ll be outright dropped by all of the megacorps. even when using an open protocol, you are not in control.

   in other words, the email/ActivityPub model of federation incentivizes centralization (for content moderation, to combat spam, etc.), to such an extent that it becomes possible for the centralized options to become the ONLY available options. federation does not scale, it goes back to platforms at that point.

   so what’s the solution? eliminate platforms entirely, eliminate the distinction between client and server: create peer-to-peer networks. P2P is what we mean when we say protocols are better. when there is no server, it becomes impossible for servers to become ever greater. only when there is no platform are you in control.