Carighan Maconar

It’s the whole paradox of tolerance, on a slightly different level.

A democratic society cannot allow non-democractic elements such as Trump to use the democratic process. By it’s very nature. People will then say “but it’s democracy, I should be able to choose whatever I want”, yes, except choosing against democracy. Which is by definition not a choice that can be available.

That’s my main takeaway. If you want to appear stronk leedr, this isn’t it. This just makes you seem desperate because your russian money givers are getting impatient.

Always keep in mind that the american democratic part is a center-right conservative party from virtually any non-US perspective. Contrary to the republicans, which are a christofascist-ultranationalist conservative party. But they’re both conservatives. They don’t like to work, they just want to make the rich richer.

Now, I should say, in particular the democrats do have plenty individual members who got the right ideas and do the right work. But they are struggling against an old party block that is used to never yanking the chain because they’re hte ones benefitting from the status quo, and who are also by now too old to mind fallout from stuff like Trump in office or climate change as they’ll die from old age in a few years anyways.

So/so.

You only have the option if it’s your instance that you’re having defederated. You cannot prevent anyone from:

• Spinning up a new instance then federating with you, then bridging the content from there to the defederated instance.
• Simply using a web-scraper and a bot to post your stuff on another instance.

The second part is basically what is happening here.

Importantly, I feel people misunderstand on a fundamental level what it means to post things openly on the internet. Your only way to prevent this is simply to not post to a site that people can access freely and without a process through which you are vetting them for whether you trust them. As in: Just like IRL when you decide whether to tell things to friends or acquaintences or well, not.

But, on the web, you not only cannot prevent someone taking your public data and copying it over to wherever they so desire, you don’t even know since they could be posting it in a place that you in turn have no access to so you cannot see it there.

I don’t get the problem. It’s just syncing public information back and forth. I mean, the information is fully public for anyone to access. If you mind who accesses it, you shouldn’t make it public.

I’d make “Waf right now” from it, but I dunno.