TheObviousSolution

It’s a practical monopoly due to how they’ve exploited their Android presence in the mobile market. The only viable alternative is Yelp. The biggest problem is getting people to jump on the same platform and to leave reviews, and Google does this with mobile location tracking, even prompting the user when they think they’ve been remotely near a location at times. Maybe it does need a fediversed alternative, it is quite the unaddressed monopoly.

confederation

… odd choice for a term … Nobody in the EU would define themselves by it …

Well, trying to use terms to justify the US confederacy post-Civil War aside, it would actually be better for a lot of states. The rest of the world can no longer trust and increasingly bipolar schizophrenic US, whereas that’s not the case for a certain number of states. You can’t overcome the deeply flawed and corrupt two party federal system, and it’s rapidly becoming even worse. If you can’t fix the problems from within, you will only be able to fix them from outside.

The US is going to screw itself so much, they are basically going to have to go full imperial just to conquer the resources they’ve screwed themselves out of. Huxley? Orwell? Na, Spaceballs.

He wants to get rid of FEMA to make it all about political favors so he can solidify his power.

I didn’t have a problem with using YouTube Premium, but Google is doing a lot of shitty practices. The latest is purging Google Maps reviews in collusion with local authorities for private interests. Maybe don’t be part of a shitty monopoly while trying to push this sort of bullshit onto us?

Her peers cordially shaked hands with them well enough… Nevermind the richest members of the oligarchy who funded and paid respects to their coronation personally.

Promote Mbin. The only bad thing it has going for it is that it cannot block entire instances, which is odd because one would think blocking domains would do this. It also has a number of pet peeves, but none I’ve found to be as bad.

Or just link to this: https://jointhefediverse.net/