I guess the main difference is that once you tag a.gup.pe, your post gets relayed to all followers of the group - independent of whether they are already federated with you. So kind of like hashtags, but it allows content to travel further.

And he runs a podcast called “Call me crazy”?

I guess he just gets really sad when people won’t listen to him and call him weird instead. :'(

I think it’s also worth highlighting how PieFed interactions with other fediverse services. Both a.gup.pe groups and PeerTube channels integrate super well, and you can follow them like any other community.

In practice, this means that content from technology content creators posted on PeerTube will appear directly within the technology topic; videos posted to flipboard.video are pushed directly to the fediverse topic. Discussions and upvotes are, of course, federated directly to PeerTube.

As I love the potential of PeerTube but find it lacking in discoverability, this is something I really love.

The Republicans might have politicized the Court, or the Court may have politicized itself when it decided to throw its last glimmer of judicial legitimacy out the window. Hard to say.

In either case, all Biden is doing here is trying to fix a problem that was not of his making.

I think this is why the Republicans seem weirdly upset by this line of attack. Call them fascists, they don’t bat an eye. It’s too complicated for their base to comprehend anyway, even if the would have had a problem with it. But call them out for being weird, and suddenly their base might stop for a moment and actually think: “Yeah, writing about fucking a sofa in your memoirs is a bit odd, isn’t it?”

If that’s the literal translation it’s also a bit ironic that he was hit by a truck.

Evan Prodromou is a visionary. I recommend this interview with him on the potential of ActivityPub and the end of walled gardens.

Very happy he is all right.

And !fuckcars@lemmy.world.

I was curious about the dog story - apparently he insists it was a goat, and there doesn’t seem to be conclusive evidence that it wasn’t.

I found this in an article where he would not, however, deny sexual assault.

Yikes.

Gotta say, viral misinformation is a bit bland at the moment.

It’s obvious the GOP didn’t prepare very well for this scenario.

It’s a failure of the media that they even bother reporting on what some Republican piece of trash has to say about the matter, as if they ever have anything but shit coming out of their mouths.

Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., said in a statement that his office was forced to call Capitol Police for assistance because the protesters were “violently beating on the office doors […]”

Certain democrats could benefit from shutting the fuck up as well. There’s a god damn fucking genocide happening and these people are happily rolling out the carpet for murderers while complaining about noise in the hallway.

Fuck them all, and fuck this.

For good measure, here’s what violent disruption by 400 American Jews looks like in the Capitol:

Good thing American media makes sure not to show these horrible signs calling for violence to end.

When you think about it, from an outside perspective I mean, as in not taking into account prior knowledge about the current state of America, it is somewhat incredible that the guy who had his brain eaten by a worm is not the most incoherent presidential candidate this year.

A Threads account seems somewhat more likely as there’s already @potus@threads.net and @barackobama@threads.net, but it would be fantastic if the Harris campaign would set up a proper ActivityPub channel.

Stuff like this will probably become more likely once Threads start federating both ways, so that the user base of Threads is available for organizations promoting themselves on Mastodon. But I feel like $30 000 should at least make them consider copy/pasting content to Mastodon.

Nah. This lady clearly didn’t sleep her way to the top.

Direct link. Currently at 27k.

The idea is that if one is donating to the Harris campaign anyway, doing it under a shared Mastodon banner might push the Harris campaign towards posting on open platforms. So it serves a double purpose of fighting Trump and Musk at the same time.

In a lot of countries, heads of state are derived from parliament, so people vote for parties and platforms rather than people. The fixation on individuals is a bit of a weird quirk of the US system.

In France they also elect their president directly, but it is not exactly a short election cycle, with two rounds of elections: If no candidate receives 50% of the vote in the first round, the two candidates leading the race advance to a second stage and people have to vote all over again. And then the new president generally dissolves the parliament, unleashing two new elections with a similar procedure on the more local level.

I am so happy to be voting in proportional representation systems.

There are of course women on both sides, but generally speaking the prospect of being forced to carry a child they do not want is off-putting for most women.

I think lobbyists don’t pose all that much of a challenge. Americans are just used to corruption being ingrained in the political regime, but that’s due to the moral failings of so many of your elected officials.

It is, however, a lot of power in one chair - in the end of the day you need to trust your advisers and cabinet. If you lack experience in the job even more so. And if they are not competent and aligned with your interests, they might fall for lobbyism more easily.

Vote. Try to get others to do the same.

Maybe Democrats don’t stand a chance this round, but put up a fight. And if Trump loses you might get a chance to vote again in four years - a higher turnout to Democrats in this round might make it seem less hopeless at the next crossroads. :)

Ah, I wasn’t aware! If it’s there I guess people will randomly comment on it for sure.

I wonder if it displays it for users of other platforms (like Mastodon) as well. Could cause some fun interactions.

If I remember correctly Reddit did something with a cake next to the user name or something. Kind of designed to derail the conversation. I’m not sure I want Lemmy interfaces to follow suit.