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'Marxist banking parasites.'

That's a new one, time to update the bingo cards.

As an American:

Is China threatening to invade Greenland?

Did China just completely abandon and betray the most succesful military alliance in the modern era... in the middle of an active war involving that alliance?

Exactly.

He's not insane until rich dude's yacht money and 401ks start tanking.

Before that diagnosable criteria, he doesn't meet the DSM V threshold for magalomanical genocidal fascist.

'Results inconclusive'

EDIT 'magalomaniacal' was a typo, but it fits, so it stays. Hopefully it'll be in thr DSM 6.

I mean, I was using digg before reddit existed but I did not get any such email.

... I used digg because I was too broke to afford SomethingAwful's $10 charge.

I was also... 14? lol

Maybe something like a time delay, or thresholds of some kind could be added into this equation?

Say, theoretically, everyone switches over to a verified whitelist model, instead of an automatic approval of any new instances.

Now, I don't think you're gonna get some kind of... UN of large instances to collectively do some kind of formal process that is shared between all members, and then somehow their collective decisions are binding for all members of this... instance UN.

But, individual instances could adopt and manage their own less permissive whitelist model, with their own vetting processes.

So an example could be:

Don't auto federate to every new instance.

Instead, wait for the instance to be... 2, 4, 6 weeks old, wait for it to have so many unique users, so many daily posts or comments in whatever timeframe... then when that threshold is passed, it gets auto whitelisted.

If a new instance owner wants to accelerate federation with your instance, new instance owner can send out some kind message describing their instance, overriding this process.

I am not 100% sure how the actual technical backend here works, how easy or difficult this would be to implement, how much workload this would put on instance admins.

If anything like this is possible, I really think you'd want to keep the 'sovereignty' of how the process would work still within the sole control of each instance, and not just... make a super-instance governing body that makes binding decisions for all accepted members.

That would be a mess, and would... just make the 'panel of big important instances' into basically the UN security council.

But at a per instance level, it doesn't seem unreasonable that individual instances could consider their own sets of federation criteria other than just 'automatically accept everything and only blacklist after massive drama or a botnet instance arises'.