I think modern democracies have not yet been pushed to their limits and it's gonna happen. It's gonna take a strong foundation to come out the other end.
@jerry The side effect of "cutting 2T in spending" if they could even figure it out and not collapse the entire economy is that it would at least destroy a ton of contracting businesses that leach off the government at exorbitant rates
It will be a classic repeat of:
"I voted for him, and he's the one who's doing this," she said of Mr. Trump. "I thought he was going to do good things. He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting." - 2019
> Soon the Magas might turn on 45, and you all can sit back and watch.
There is precedent for this. The last time Republicans tried to use huge tariffs it backfired badly. Both the House and Senate flipped to Democrat.
"As the economists predicted, the high tariff proved to be a disaster. Even before its enactment, U.S. trading partners began retaliating by raising their tariff rates, which froze international trade. The tariff fight solidified Hoover’s ties with Republican regulars, but it shredded his standing among his party’s progressives. Most of the progressive Republican senators who had campaigned for Hoover in 1928 wound up endorsing Franklin D. Roosevelt for president in the next election. Nor did the tariff sit well with the voters. In 1932 they turned the majority in both houses over to the Democrats, by large margins. The voters also made clear their disdain for the Smoot-Hawley tariff by booting both Reed Smoot and Willis Hawley out of office that year."
@dynode@collectifission@kolchak if they enabled Federation for all accounts it would crush the rest of the fediverse in traffic very quickly, especially for federated Deletes which get delivered to every server you know about because you can't be sure who has a copy of the post
And then you'd have bots auto following Threads accounts and boosting them onto various servers and very quickly Threads would consume all our capacity unless so you'd have to block them.
Just think about it with celebrities -- they'll have 100k replies to some stupid selfie they posted and then your server tries to fetch the entire thread? That's not gonna go well, you'll have to pull the profiles of each user just to render the thread AND their dumb emoji reply activities
*Or* they can just let users opt-in to federation so the growth of their federation traffic is more controlled
ActivityPub was not well designed for scale or accepting a server with a billion users to just suddenly enter the network.
@vikingkong@gabriel@shuro guys, i'm begging you, try Delta Chat. Just once. It's simple to test. I have my own private Chatmail server too. It's great. You'll get a random anonymous account and your messages auto expire. Your account completely deletes after 90 days of inactivity.
and like magic you can see what "federated Signal" would look like and not require any new protocols to be implemented, and very hard to block this messenger without having to break all email functionality for your citizens