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It used to be that there was a website where you could basically just check your eligibility, but the system got somehow even more complicated so checking "express" eligibility is the best I can do: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry/check-score.html

Generally speaking, the highest-scoring applicants get in first. If that fails, maybe there's some niche provincial program or something, but you'll need to hire an immigration lawyer to have a chance of figuring it out.

If you do get let in, I recommend driving up in an RV. The housing market in Canada is still really fucked, and that's a decent fallback option. Winter-safe ones exist, but I also see people building little insulated enclosures, and in any case cold season is nearly over right now.

Annoying they don't link their source.

Ah yes, the wonders of OSS documentation.

Relatively few, at the moment. If you're a skilled worker in demand - which could be anything from a welder to a doctor to (questionably, but factually) an executive - you can try to immigrate economically.

If you figure you can find work under the table, just crossing the border and not crossing back would be doable. The refugee path is currently closed by treaty, unfortunately. Hopefully that will change.

Leaving aside all the work they did making an alternative more to their liking, that kind of implies it's like a light switch, and it's not.

Yep, probably. People are just going to have to get used to it to certain degree, and to a certain degree there's going to be .world-type instances that act as a user-friendly default.

There's other issues at play, of course, which is more why I asked.

Oh? Complicated, fragile, something else?

Yep. What do you think the chances are you could write something that does the job of the router and app view, but in a totally off-standard, more point-to-point way?

In the meanwhile, it's just a matter of bridging, I guess.

It's a good blog post, thanks. I made a quick summery elsewhere in the thread.

It's really unfortunate that we've ended up with two populated protocols for federation, both of which have a major flaw. In our case, it's no established support for moving accounts. In theirs, its a component that's so bulky the federatability is questionable (and no federated DMs).

Thank you!

TL;DR, the relay bit works as a completely connected network topology, and has the associated quadratic growth issues, which renders it, like you said, hard to host.

Also nasty: Direct messages are just not federated.

Other things are or were at the time of writing janky, but nothing else is quite that egregious. The author is working on a separate project, and recommends this idea as a solution for portable identity on ActivityPub; here's what "object capability" means in the context.

Bets all in? Okay:

Really? In what way?

Digital identities being cryptographic and independent of any one instance is huge all on it's own. The rest of it I understand less clearly, but it looks pretty modular.