Hmm okay. I do think we have something similar here where there might be meetings that we call “citizen meetings” where anyone is invited to come and hear about a current political topic. It’s mostly informative and people can ask questions and stuff, not related to campaigning or elections mostly I would say. So yea I don’t think that is too weird honestly.

That just makes me think, how can those people not voting just sit idly by and watch? I don’t understand that either.

I’m not sure about the format but I know that towns in Denmark also occasionally calls for meetings. This doesn’t sound that weird to me

Well the map includes Canada, US, UK and India, and some african territories that I imagine may have been UK colonies at one point (I could be wrong), hence english-speaking world.

I think those are particular examples but if you look at most of the EU, I think there are more political choices than just 2. Here in Denmark there’s sometimes a discussion that there are too many political parties. We currently have like 12?

The weirdest thing, the thing that I have the hardest time understanding, is how many people vote for Trump. There was just a survey here in Denmark asking how many would vote for Trump. It was 8%. That number I still find a bit high but I can understand it a little bit. 8% of people voting for something very harmful seems almost inevitable I guess. Some people just aren’t educated or informed enough.

But the fact that close to 50% of americans choose to vote for Trump, and that in some states, it is even more than 50% - that I don’t think I will ever understand. That is madness.

No, not really. Only some parts of the english-speaking world use FPTP and it’s not that common to have only 2 choices unless you have that system.

Isn’t that quite normal even in other countries? I believe we do it quite commonly in Denmark.

Townhalls are weird.

Town halls? As in the building or does this mean something else? Aren’t town halls quite common and normal elsewhere?

Flags everywhere is weird.

We kinda do this in Denmark too tbh. I personally don’t find it that weird due to that.

I remember to have read that they have found something written in Java

You’re talking about Sublinks and it has yet to reach a usable state. It doesn’t seem like development is going particularly fast.

lemmy has multiple implementations already

No it doesn’t? There is only one Lemmy implementation. There are some similar alternatives like PieFed and Mbin but those are separate implementations and are not in any way related to Lemmy, aside from using the same ActivityPub extensions.

There is really no such thing as a “platform type” - it’s all ActvityPub under the hood.

I just block most political comms, I don’t see too much of it I would say.

… what would the metric unit be? 🤔

A big one is “How does an instance change their underlying implementation?”. Like how could a lemmy instance decide to migrate to become a Mastodon instance?

Currently that’s just not possible, but it seems important for the long term survival of an instance. It seems naive to think that an instance will stay the same implementation forever. But ActivityPub basically makes this impossible.

As long as the reason for the ban says that it was personally requested, then I don’t see why it would be a bad thing. Obviously being banned from another instance for legitimate reasons is a cause for concern and could lead to trouble in your own instance, but if it is clear that it was only because you requested it yourself, then it’s fine.

You should just switch to an instance that defederate those instances, or convince your current instance to do so.

User blocking merely blocks their communities. You’ll still see comments from the instance and you’ll still see posts in other communities from their users. You’ll also still have their votes influence your feed.

Defederation is the more proper tool to use. Individual user blocking is not effective.

You mean you personally blocked them? You need to actually be on an instance that defederates them for it to mean anything. User blocking hardly does anything, it just hides communities from that instance, that’s all it does.

You really should join an instance that defederates from those instances. That is the way to actually “vote” on the fediverse, not via simple user blocking that doesn’t actually achieve what you think it does, as the other reply points out.

I mean, lead them to instances that defederate hexbear for starters? Seems reasonable anyway.

Sounds hollow coming from an instance that doesn’t even defederate hexbear.