A mix of Amrerican exceptionalism, lacking education, cultivated affinity to cult personalities (or just propaganda for simpler term) and a political system that makes participation (outside the elite) very difficult.

Culturally very far from Europeans. Millions and millions of Trump voters are not just an accident but rather a product of American culture.

Innovation industry!

And you need to give money to them, yes. But that was not the question.

Buying advertising on Facebook seems to be the defacto way to influence masses.

Facebook has incredibly invasive data collection, aggressive algorithms and therefore very fine grained targeting options and it has a bit over 3 billion active monthly users (many of them 100% captive because they won’t have Internet without Facebook)

I clearly remember there being a choice in last November, so I don’t think random Americans should get a free pass out of this

Looking at the voter map, I’m not sure I can feel a lot of sympathy, to be honest. It would seem to me that the people made their own bed and now have to lie in it. And much like all other ultra conservative wins in other countries in last decade - the rhetoric of “strong man” seems to be popular, especially in rural, poor areas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Hungarian_parliamentary_election#/media/File:2022_Hungarian_parliamentary_election_-_Tentative_results.png

But it’s ok, they’re manly man tough, like in the good old days, when men were iron and ships were wood! Leave them to it, they’ll tough it out. They’ve earned it.

Yeah. On Twitter as well

Sure. Just saying this is federated and you don’t really control where this post ends up.

Uh, there are plenty of Nazis and tankies on fedi. Chances are you’re using software written by hardcore tankies (Lemmy devs). Not everyone is “in the know”. They just follow their brands and influencers. And most don’t really care, they don’t engage too much, just retweet and like the latest football results or whatever the outrage algo puts in their feed. Most people don’t think deep thoughts about their social media platform.

Tell her to stop. Then cease all contact. No need to be respectful. It’s not a situation that needs fine granularity.

You are the adult in this and it’s always going to be your responsibility to do the right thing. So act like a responsible adult.

this is potentially the last social identity you have to create.

…as long as you stay centralized on the central BlueSky instance. Once you move out to a (potential, future) federated server, that identity (and it’s super duper verification) doesn’t follow you.

Also, you can’t easily/fast search in voice data and you end up implementing all kinds of weird and costly workarounds like AI transcription in order to make voice meetings searchable. Voice is great for telling stories around camp fire, but it’s awful way to convey and store information in a online forum.

Short answer: No
Long answer: Nooooooooooooooo

Lemmy’s core values of decentralization, privacy, and user autonomy

I’m sorry, but is privacy really one of Lemmy’s core values? Because fediverse has no real privacy features (that I know of), in fact, federation and ActivityPub makes privacy features pretty hard to implement. Could you please elaborate and link to the source of this?

Dude. Don’t keep the bong so close to your keyboard.

Smoking. Smoked a pack a day for 14 years. Been smoke free for over 20 years now.

I’m pretty sure the market share for Firefox would grow. Maybe even 5-10% which would potentially put it at total of …. 15%

They would be huge, but to think Firefox would ever be the popular browser is probably a bit too optimistic. That ship sailed long time ago.

Chrome/Google is pretty messed up junk these days and no one cares.

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From decentralised perspective the verification data is stored in the verifiers PDS rather than having the verified-certificate in the subjects PDS which means this particular check is always for the official BlueSky server only and won’t be federated anywhere else. Other potential servers are free to implement their own (potentially different!) local verification scheme with it, but it’s never going to be network wide and it never federates anywhere except the server where it’s implemented.

This is why I commented earlier about their decision to move to ”traditional” social networking space and away from decentralised networking

I think at this point it’s pretty clear that BlueSky is in the traditional social media business instead of being in the decentralized social media business.

Maybe that’s a good decision for BlueSky, they certainly seem to have the growth at the moment, but I think we probably have to forget the dreams of it ever pushing the decentralization angle again.