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  • Not how I view the world, but how I view USA and “citizens of the free world”.

    In 2016 my girlfriend and I visited New York - for me, first time visiting USA. I had a co-worker who lived in USA for most of her childhood, so I asked her if she had some advice for me to get along with people I met on my way.

    “Never underestimate the stupidity of Americans”.

    I thought that to be rude as I had “talked” with many Americans on Reddit and sure, there were idiots, but that didn’t define a person from USA for me.

    We arrived in New York and took a cab to the hotel. The driver asked us “So, is Donald Trump making headlines in Europe?” (This was during the 2016 election).

    I laughed and told him “Yeah, can you believe people will vote on such a moron”…

    Oh no I didn’t… He was furious, as Donald Trump was the Saviour of USA and he was singlehandedly going to “clean up the swamp” or whatever his catchphrase was… and then he said one of the stupidest things I have ever heard.

    “90% of Muslims are terrorists and if you don’t kill them, they will kill you”…

    I know not all Americans are this dumb, but I learned my lesson… Never underestimate the stupidity of Americans.














  • If a new user on my instance was able to subscribe to a comunity on another instance, and all the posts/comments/likes of that community was being fetched so it was browsable on my instance - I would see no issue.

    But as of now, if a user wants to browse content from several communities on different instances - and discover new interesting comunities on different instances - while being a user on a instance filled with "like minded users, they would need a user on all instances which hosts communities of interest to 1) discover these communities 2) view the posts from these communities.

    What you are describing are single entities of communities, which defeats the purpose of federation completely, in my opinion.