I don’t know what “being registered to vote” means exactly in the US, but intuitively it sounds like an unnecessary level of complication and an undemocratic practice.
Not that my country (Italy) can be taken as an example, but even being it the paradigm of red tape and overcomplicating things, people automatically get a voting card wherever they’re living and they vote.
It feels like there’s room for improvement tbh.
Literally every company I worked in assigned name.surname@company.com, I don’t know why people would complicate their life by doing literally anything else.
Come on, one thread is all about “if we do nothing now in two years Threads will have swallowed the Internet”, and here it’s like “if we do something now we’re all drama queens”.
Personally I think it’s all very simple. Meta has an agenda, which is monetizing data through all means available.
This is not up to debate. It’s a corporation, it has no morals and no other goal other than generating profit by selling users data to advertisers.
I’m saying this as a statement of facts.
The purpose of the fediverse so far is in complete contrast with that, so I think it’s perfectly reasonable to assume that Meta’s ultimate goal will be to alter the fediverse to suit their own goal.
Therefore, telling them to go fuck themselves while we still can seems like a very reasonable thing to do.
Everyone is free and welcome to make thir own servers, and so is Meta.
However, admins are also free to defederate from the servers they deem dangerous or inappropriate for any reason, and fuck, Meta has shown thousands of times that they’re not to be trusted.
Ok call me arrogant but I’ve had enough of what you call common rabble.
I’ve read my share of common places, hidden racism, zero value content, “I’ve done my research and 5g gives you covid”, and all that.
Not that a more educated community is always immune to that, but if the 10 minutes worth of googling are enough of a hurdle to keep the soccer mums away I’m ok with that.
It’s the narrow thought process of one who has always lived in the she spot, I would imagine.