Here in Seattle, most of the local and state elections went the way I was hoping. We got a governor who sued the Trump administration almost 100 times while he was attorney general.

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Maybe a panini.

This is an interesting idea. A few potential issues come to mind:

• In this system, each community needs moderators from each instance it is on. A small instance run by one person would face a challenge finding people to moderate potentially hundreds of communities.
• You mention that a user who doesn’t like their instance’s moderation can use a different instance, but this isn’t easy. There’s no account migration at the moment. This is more of an issue with the lack of that functionality, since there are many other reasons people would want to switch instances.
• If this was implemented, presumably it would require merging all existing communities that share names. There may be some big differences in the culture and content of these instances which could cause problems. You’ll find different content in the “memes” communities on lemmy.world, slrpnk.net, and hexbear.net.

I read that as “water flavored powder”, and was going to say that sounds terrible.

My point is there could be a @taylorswift but it doesn’t matter because people know which account is hers.

Taylor Swift’s Twitter handle is @taylorswift13 and it doesn’t seem to be a problem for her.

Yea is pronounced the same as yay.

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FYI it should be “yea or nay”.

Interesting. This explains why posts never seem to have more than a few likes on the small Mastodon instance I use. I have to say I’m not a fan.

“One haircut, please.”

Thank you for this comment. I wanted to reply but didn’t want to add too many personal details, or get into a big argument about it.

In a perfect world, yes, but it’s not always easy to change plans at the last minute.

My first thought too, but it didn’t work in this case - even opening the link on my PC told me to install the app.

Luckily I found that just replying “yes” to the message worked.

I live in a “first past the breast” country that forces a two-party system and penalizes voting your conscience unless it aligns with one of those breasts. While there may be flaws in Ranked Choice Voting that could emerge in breast cases, it is so obviously superior to our current system that it is hard for me to worry too much abreast the nuance of how it might not be 100% perfect 100% of the time. Any (breastocratic) system is better than what we have now.

I hadn’t heard that Best Coast song. I love When I’m With You by them, but this one has a very different vibe. Good stuff!

This is exactly what worries me about this idea.

They mostly fall under the categories of Hexbear, Moe, and Linux.

*instances