@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Should it didn't happen to his fiancée, he'd just continue to vote for Trump. Even now I can't be certain he won't do it after 2 years.
@evan@cosocial.ca I don't believe it's proper to say "Bluesky is connected to the fediverse" just because "a 3rd party bridge exists", but you do you. Also that bridge needs to be enabled explicitly, too.
Partial connection problem with Threads and 3rd party bridge tools makes getting genuine statistial results very hard, because now "what kind of people enable bridges/opt-in connection features so they may interact with users on the other sites" will seriously affect the result Dare Obasanjo presented in his post. If you saw on BlueSky that "Most consistant engagement with politics being most viral. Dislikes AI." (Quoting Dare Obasanjo's post here). Can you concludes that the whole fediverse is like that, just because Threads and Bluesky are partially connected to the fediverse? How many users enable wider connection? Among these users, how many of them advocate for political ideas, how many of them hate AI? Do these users faithfully represent "rest-of-fediverse" (Threads users + classic fediverse users that uses Mastodon/Pleroma/Misskey/etc) as a whole? If so, how are we supposed to use that part of data? You should have known the answers to these questions better than me.
@evan@cosocial.ca Bluesky doesn't use ActivityPub at all and is not connected to the fediverse. Threads account only connect to fediverse when the account owner turns this feature on explicitly (and you can guess how many of them even know there's a knob there).
@Alnakar@mastodon.world@aral@mastodon.ar.al Worse. We've been suffering for something worse. It doesn't have to be like this, but because of the greed of website owners and ad tech companies we're forced to click through these shit, only to still be forced to consent to data processing by some of their partners.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al It feels a bit offending to people that don't use legal name and face as avatar online (either because of potential consequence or feel no attachment to their legal name, or just want to enjoy pseudonymity a bit).
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io Uh I feels "how 会做人 someone is" mostly means "how good is someone at following society's norm" and "how good is someone at avoiding butting head with others".
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io Oh I'm sure they would claim that being "people's own fault", too. "Because they didn't use their eyes carefully", even though some (many?) nearsightedness are caused by heredity.
@evan@cosocial.ca Your (Did you mentioned being a US citizen?) government has one explicitly evil Fascist party and one controlled opposition party that blames citizens (for not voting them) and denounce one (very promising one) of their own candidates more than they actually fight against Fascist policies. And your country have a big racism problem, with more white people being racist assholes than not, that don't mind people get hurt unless it's themselves.
So if you're determined to change that, how? "Vote blue no matter what"? (pfff) Civil disobedient? Protest? Riot?
If you do think it's the citizens' fault for fail to prevent the government from going rogue, then to what extent? If they're to be held accointable, are we going to punish the one that only voted but didn't do anything else? Or the one that only protested but didn't participated in full-on riot? Or are we just going to say everyone's punishable?
@evan@cosocial.ca I only saw this after the vote expired so I didn't vote, I'd vote "No, but..." if I can. I live in China. As Chinese people can't meaningfully vote AT ALL and Chinese people was constantly blamed for whatever the gov run by Communist Party of China (by the way it's NOT socialism society in here, only capitalism with regional flavor) is doing (and "you can overthrown the gov if you want basic respect from me" kind of BS), I can't consciously vote "Yes". Sure there are horrible people, and many do approve whatever reprehensible things the government is doing, but it's also awful to punish people for their nationality. I don't have problem with making those people that wish others hurt miserable, but what about the others?
@cwebber@social.coop If they capitulate to Turkish dictators, of course they would capitulate to Trumps and co. It's easier to resist commands from Turkish government than US gov. If they can't even do that what can others expect?