pelespirit

Do you want me to go through the settings for you? It's super easy. There are dots or a "hamburger" below my name and off to the right on the website design. It will say "block user" there.

Kisses, and you should block me if my comments upset you so much. It's super easy on lemmy.

So you have the same problem as us. I think in the olden days, our corrupt politicians and elites colluded with the world's corrupt politicians and elites, and had a good laugh how they set it up in their favor.

Okay, I'm not jealous of the 4 year part unless it has some hidden benefit. Maybe moving that slow keeps it stable?

Thanks for explaining that. It sounds like a better system in that you can force an election at any time. I'm jealous of that right now.

I know the PR and propaganda machines have been going after Canada. I really hope you guys don't get forced or go willingly down the same road as us. I'll be looking for that Poilievre person to not be in the running.

Oh, got ya. It hasn't happened yet. Good luck to you fighting our stupid economic wars that we, the US, are certain to lose.

I was noticing an uptick in the quality of the posts in the last month. It's to our benefit here.

I think the difference here is there is not some weird, ephemeral person deciding. For example, at the bad place, it could have been a shitty admin, a good admin or actually spez deciding the rules for everyone.

Here we have instances that make up their own rules on who to federate with (who you see), and whether or not you're banned (who sees you). Also, the admins of your instance can redo moderation order anyway they see fit. It really will be an instance controlled vibe.

The real thing to be worried about is that if certain instances get too big. They have the most users and can control who sees what across the fediverse. For example, if a super large instance doesn't want any posts on any volatile or controversial topic to be seen (immigration, Nazi salutes, transgender, etc.), they could just have it not show up on their instance and the biggest part of the fediverse would never see it and have no way of knowing they didn't see it.

I think they're going the Twitter-> X route. Make it so unusable for the people who would give any pushback, that all that's left are the people who are going to cause real harm and the others that are too addicted and/or stupid to leave.

That's a great clarification. There is some overlap, but you're right, they may or may not see some stars or constellations. The Southern Cross for instance, can only be seen from certain southern state in the US.

A good way to think about this is time zones. The sun is in a different spot depending on what time zone you're in, so will everything else be in the sky. Also, it depends on seasons because the earth tilts on its axis.

Planets, the "stars" that don't twinkle, are sometimes between us and the sun (Mercury and Venus). Those planets have crazy patterns and are the evening and morning stars. The planets that aren't between us and the sun act consistently (the rest).

Our moon travels around us and isn't attached to the sun, but is in the earth's orbit. That's why a lunar calendar and a sun calendar are so different.