Former landed gentry.

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Cake day: September 12th, 2023

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  • I mean, what are they gonna do? Pull the VERY loyal people from kbin.social or Lemmy.world into Threads? Or the people from Mastodon?

    No. What they will do is follow the activity pub protocol, then make their own tweaks that all the other instances are supposed to follow (despite being closed off tweaks), or we are no longer interacting with them. Eventually our open source standard is overshadowed by their new partially proprietary standard, they have 95% of the users and more functionality so they have no reason to leave, and we are the ones who are doing it wrong. Then we are extinguished and they begin the process of enshitification/extracting every cent possible.

    i.e. embrace, extend, extinguish.




  • We are definitely in uncharted territory, but I feel like even they would have to pause before necessarily overturning this. Doesn’t mean they won’t, but I don’t think it’s an easy decision.

    If the Supreme Court overturns this - because it is undoubtedly going to go to them - are blue states then going to try to weaponize federal courts to attack how republican held states are holding their elections? Or vice versa?

    On the one hand, if the supreme court somehow rules in favor of Colorado, you can bet other states are going to immediately follow suit. And if they rule against them, that’s a serious potential shockwave over what states can and can’t do when overseeing elections. Especially at a time when the GOP is asserting a state’s right to oversee elections e.g. “election integrity.”

    It’s certainly a situation lol