Dark Arc

The fediverse as designed is actually pretty inefficient. If it ever were to go to Reddit scale it would melt down.

That’s because there’s effectively no batching for federation currently … every single vote from an instance is forwarded back to the instance hosting the community and must be processed individually. So if you get 500k votes on something even if it’s from 200 servers, the servers hosting the community have to be able to withstand the flood of votes and store the associated data… And that’s just votes.

Worse yet, those votes then get replayed to every single one of those 200 servers one by one. So every server needs 500k vote entries and all the associated traffic … even if half of the servers are just 1 guy looking at cat videos once a month.

Federating actually is way more expensive than just adding another user as designed.

Gotta say, Americans do seem significantly dumber than the average world citizen.

Presumably what an American once said about Germans. It can happen anywhere with the right stream of propaganda.

Depends on the particular telling I think. DC has IIRC gone both ways with that.

It’s really weird to think I put out feed to attract the colorful cousins of alligators to my back yard.

Yeah, I’m thinking that’s the case … maybe it’s a tweak to their Android text boxes. That seems like something that’s got to be keyboard independent.

Man I remember cutting myself on some of those toy and electronics boxes growing up … All for a ban here

FOSS isn’t inherently left wing. It is often charitable work but that’s far from unique to the left wing. That can also just stem from “I wanted this program to exist and it didn’t, but I don’t want to put even more effort in to monetize it.” Plenty of FOSS projects start as someone wanting to learn something early on in their career as well (which is both a pro and a con because … if you’re learning you might be making some bigger mistakes).

Anarchism … I just don’t really agree with that at all. Lots of larger FOSS projects do very much have governing bodies that decide what to do and how it shall be done. In many cases FOSS authors are a one person governing body making all the big decisions.

Organized charitable work is far from anarchy even though anarchism dreams of everything being organized charitable work.

I think it also depends on what communities you interact with.

I got fed up with it in the Lemmy.world news community and unsubscribed. I’ve been much happier following that change.

There are still some leftist and both sides hot takes I run into … but it’s a much more acceptable pacing now.

He can ask congress to add another judge, but congress has to actually approve the appointments.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/

This is the best database I know of but it’s also old now… And more oriented on lies

Not to mention this was the first 2 years, the years an administration is typically least effective.

If Biden gets years 4-6 with a democrat majority in the house and senate it will be a big deal.

If you turn completely around are you going to same direction you were when you started?

I think it’s valid that it’s “completely turned my life around” and “I pulled a 180 and changed my life.”

I’m mildly annoyed the recent thread is on the left not the right, but this is super interesting so thanks for sharing! 🤖

Helping people via the government is political.

Political isn’t some word for “government action that’s controversial” or “government action that you don’t like.” It’s just the discussion of government actions.

It’s inherently political to discuss universal basic income and acting as if it isn’t, is intellectually dishonest.

You are literally extracting the political token of why universal basic income is helpful, and then claiming that it’s “not political”…?

That one genuinely made me laugh out loud; thanks, haha.

Ukraine elects a TV personality … they get Zelensky.

We do it and get Regan and Trump … what the heck man.

This is the wrong answer lol

There is nobody that’s worth a billion dollars, that’s wealth hoarding. There is no reason our government should endorse that level of wealth hoarding. It hurts infrastructure, it hurts innovation, it hurts national security, it hurts the press, and it hurts our democracies.

It’s the same rational for why we shouldn’t have monopolies and why we have laws against them. Concentration of wealth/power is a very bad thing.

I genuinely do not believe you can be a good person and make a billion dollars. You have either scammed your customers, scammed your employees, or both. There should be a limit on individual wealth.

The definition of capitalism:

an economic system based on private ownership of capital

I think where I disagree is that capitalism is an untamable beast or that private ownership is bad. Private ownership at the small scale breeds competition and interoperability. At the large scale it becomes a monoculture just like a truly socialist government would be (in both cases the average person’s individual buying power and individual vote aren’t going to move the needle much).

Putting limits on capitalism so that small and medium businesses dominate and the middle class has enough money to reasonably take chances on creating new businesses without gambling their life savings is what I want to see.