Notices by Preston Is Not My Real Name (prestontumber@mastodon.social)

@jwz @eschaton Since Trump turned his back on vaccines, no, I don't - even the things he did right he fucked up.

@pluralistic @JorgeStolfi @rvkennedy @immibis @funcrunch @kcoyle I feel like this is also one of the stronger arguments in *favor* of the concept of fiat currency vs 'traditional' currencies. I don't like the idea of someone digging up a bunch more dollars and suddenly the currency goes crazy. At least when Central Banks do it there is a *purpose* to it, not the vagaries of chance.

@JorgeStolfi @rvkennedy @immibis @pluralistic @funcrunch @kcoyle The law may not require it for commercial transactions, but I doubt very much the law allows me to pay my obligations to the United States in anything other than USD

@JorgeStolfi @rvkennedy @immibis @pluralistic @funcrunch @kcoyle Fascinating! I'd have to say as a voter, I'd be against any such legislation in the jurisdictions I vote in. Still, the unit of account used by those entities is ultimately USD, correct? Even if the actual exchange was theoretically in BTC?

@feditips

Thanks! It's a pity that Mastodon doesn't have features for an allowlist approach, I feel like if someone wanted a small but still public instance that would be a great technical tool to help mitigate some of those risks.

@feditips Oh, I misspoke. What I meant was that I saw this article: https://denise.dreamwidth.org/91757.html

@feditips @gotosocial

Thanks for the information! And the new terminology sounds good, I was wondering why I hadn't seen the older ones around much. I think the new ones make more sense.

There was a post cautioning folks against hosting federated social media on Dreamwidth, have you seen it? It kinda spooked me.

@feditips I was reading your excellent website (thank you for this great resource, btw, it's been very helpful) on the topic of defederation, and I found myself with a question that didn't seem to be answered. Is it possible for a server admin to take a whitelist-approach instead of a blacklist one? That is, to make defederation the default, but be able to selectively federate with some servers.