JubilantJaguar

Everyone does. If only they would drop the fussy spelling conceit and just write it like that.

If the profits were ill-begotten then they should be paid back. Usually that's what happens, and it's a constructive form of justice.

But sending people to jail for years is just retribution. It's not a deterrent. If it were, then countries that jail people a lot would have less crime, when in fact the opposite is true. If people advocating JAIL! JAIL! JAIL! were honest with themselves, they would admit that their real purpose is just to make the culprits suffer. Okay, although personally I like to think we can be better than that. In any case, it's not gonna solve anything.

Yes, it's very different from the USA. Campaign spending is tightly limited. In most EU countries, political parties get the majority of their funding from the state, paid on the basis of past election results.

With this can-do attitude, we're really gonna get things changing!

It's an intriguing idea and might well be in line with the founding principles of the internet.

As I understand it, the URI is supposed to define the type of data you will find at the address, allowing you to use a client dedicated to that type. So: use a Gopher client for gopher:// data, a newsgroup program for nntp:// data, and of course a web browser for http://.

So the issue here would be to define what "fediverse data" actually looks like. This is quickly becoming quite a technical challenge.

Personally I like the idea of standardizing communication paradigms with a protocol, but you do first have to decide what the paradigms are. A few obvious suggestions:

• IM, or one-to-one message (holy grail! but then not public, by definition)
• many-to-many text message (IRC)
• forum post with comments (this thing right here)
• one-to-many message (Xitter, Mastodon)

Since the ActivityPub protocol seems to be the de-facto glue to this fediverse thing, maybe that's where to look first.

Sure. But if you're whining about democracy, just be aware that the alternatives are all much, much worse.

Unsure if this is sarcasm or not. But in any case it's not a counter-argument.

Agreed, it's definitely a problem. And in fact it's even worse because it turns out that today's supposedly progressive and well-informed youngsters in fact get their news from TikTok and tend to vote for authoritarian populists even in western Europe.

Again: downvoting facts, sticking one's fingers in one's ears and going "lalalalala", does not make the facts go away. It is an inconvenient fact that far-right parties across Europe are doing particularly well among young voters.

Suburbs of single family homes are deserts where you don’t even know your neighbors’ names

I've lived in super dense urban housing my whole life (Europe) and hardly ever known my neighbors' names. Ask a New Yorker if they know their neighbor's name! But sure, your general point stands.

Something changed to that effect a while back, yes. OM continues to look and feel a bit better (possibly a subjective experience) but it is so feature-poor by comparison.

Or perhaps it's your software stack. I've used it constantly for well over a decade, every day, on multiple devices, and crashes have been vanishingly rare.