Kichae

Yeah, I’m wounded by the commission omission of Cape Breton. But I think it’s just that there’s nothing dubious about our islands.

Edit: Sausage fingers and rogue autocorrect.

This is Elon Musk erasure.

Not explicitly, maybe, but implicitly, absolutely, and in multiple ways:

• Supporting the system that creates one over the other
• Having ‘bootstrap’ attitudes about the poor
• Worrying about property value over utilization
• Complaining about the homeless rather than the lack of action on housing
• Voting against people who run on public housing

In so, so many ways, people say they prefer the latter over the former. Usually just with the caveat that the homeless people also be invisible.

the idea that my account is hosted at an individual Lemmy server and that other servers trust that one to validate my account

I can’t stress highly enough how much this isn’t how it works.

You basically never directly interact with other servers. Instead, when someone on your host site first subscribes to a community hosted on a other site, your instance pulls in some recent posts from that remote site and then requests that all future content from that group be forwarded along to it. Then, people on your local site interact with that mirrored content, and your local site sends local additions back to the original host for syncing.

Your account only exists locally. You’re always reading locally, and you’re always acting locally. Everything else is servers mirroring and forwarding content.