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So the US agreed to protect Ukraine from Russia of they gave up their nukes, and now the US says it’s fine for Russia to invade Ukraine.

I wish I were his confident.

Isn’t it way too late for that?

I’m seething as an Australian. Yes, it has nothing to do with me, but somehow watching the shit show that is global politics is the train wreck from which I can not avert my eyes.

I don’t know how that could work.

At the server level we already have that - federating with a server includes that server in the web of trust.

At the user level, how would new users become trusted? That seems unachievable given how difficult it is to attract users just in general without something like that. I’ve been on the fediverse for years but I don’t know any other users that would “trust” me.

Nah, bots can farm reputation better than humans can.

The problem is that federation assumes good intent of the admins of other instances. If someone builds a network of instances intended to manipulate votes et cetera, I can’t see how the fediverse could resist that.

Instance A can’t trust that votes from instance B are legit. As soon as there’s no trust then federating even with an aparently trustworthy instance becomes too costly in terms of time and effort.

I dont think the fediverse will be able to withstand a sophisticated threat in its current form.

Once the number of MAUs makes it worth manipulating, it will be impossible to manage.

There will be a few large well managed instances with no federation, and a disparate assortment of tiny instances with very limited federation.

I’m not OP but:

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/container-ship-sinks-near-hormuz-after-being-hit-by-projectile-sources-say-2026-10-14/

I thought it was well established that bot traffic declined since the yanked data centre stuff.

Is that not the case?

American courts are pathetic. They’re complicit in being used by POTUS to punish unfavorable reporting.

That’s a text book false dichotomy. “Oh we couldn’t possibly do anything at all because we would need a violent revolution which would be awful”.

Also, I said “in some ways it’s worse”. We are not living under the boot of fascism, yet we have to bear the consequences despite having no opportunity to influence the outcome.

They would certainly have known what to expect.

Its funny how this place is awash with you guys now there’s an election coming up.

What have you been doing to fight genocide since the last one ?

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I just assumed they would get it because money.

I’ll have to step down from my moral high horse here for a moment and say that yes, I absolutely would like to watch the whole family be executed publicly.

I’d actually prefer a completely unnecessary and gratuitous delay after they’re walked out just so I can watch them consider their impending death.

Probably excessive and unachievable but the absolute ideal experience would be to see everything Trump named returned to it’s original names first.

Yeah well they already bought that island.

Seems that way.

I believe that traditionally bread is to be provided to plebians along with the spectacle.

My point is, in some ways it’s worse for us because we dont have any opportunity to promote change.