Because you need network effect. Which means you need big money for marketing, content moderation and development costs. That includes algorithms, which maybe you don’t want, but most people do.

It’s not that I want a for profit company, I just don’t think Mastodon will every achieve critical mass without one.

It’s not the users, it’s the developers / investors. I’ve tried so many times to get into Mastodon, but it sucks compared to Bluesky. It lacks content and polish, so it’s no wonder everyday people choose Bluesky over it.

The real conundrum is why isn’t there a for profit company with big money behind it, investing in ActivityPub. I guess you could point to Threads? But insert your “not like that” meme of choice.

Fwiw, apparently Bluesky did initially look at activity pub, but found the protocol lacking, which is why they invented ATProto. I don’t know the details though.

No thanks, our conservatives are further to the left than your Democrats, and California has the population of the rest of Canada combined. You can make your own country

Russian windows are uninsurable

They’ll regret not staying longer after catching up with current events.

Toyota and Honda at least are already here

1. Lol, they didn’t even remove the watermark.
2. Why throw Tom Hanks under the bus?

That’s just the prediction on if the election were held today. I don’t think the trend is showing any signs of stopping here. A couple weeks ago this same prediction gave the Cons an 80% chance at a majority. And even that was seen as a massive decline for them.

To what end? All that will do is increase volatility, discourage investment and tank the stock market.

I think it also would have made him look weak. It would be seen as capitulating to Poilievre. It wouldn’t have won anyone over.

But Carney didn’t have that optics problem.

Uh, I’d prefer if our militaries remained on friendly terms myself. Even if our politicians don’t.

Yeah, similar to Slack or Discord

Not taking money from Google means Firefox dies. Straight up. There’s absolutely no amount of “focusing on the basics” or cutting executive salaries that would make up the deficit, not even close.

We all wish that wasn’t the case, me especially. But that’s the reality.

Big tent parties are still fractured, it’s just that all the arguing happens behind the scenes out of the public eye. With PR you could actually vote on the issues that were most important, and then watch the debates play out in public.

Besides, you aren’t dreaming big enough. Imagine if politicians actually cooperated rather than tearing each other down.

If you aren’t using both Reddit and Lemmy, then you clearly aren’t the target audience

Yeah, it does. But I think the intent of “Magastan” is to draw a comparison to “those countries”. But this is stooping down to Trump’s level imo

Don’t sully the “-stan” countries like that, they don’t deserve that association.

Nature’s Path are Canadian. Though the website says “Canadian owned and operated in the US” whatever that means. Seems like they have 1/3 plants in Canada.

It doesn’t even talk about bringing in more construction workers.

Huh? “Grow the construction sector workforce” is literally the third point. Either you’re being disingenuous or you didn’t read the same page that I did.

Not really, he was already insanely popular before this. Just won a third majority a week ago, which is unheard of in Ontario politics. It’s more that he knows how to connect with people and the electorate is very gullible / willing to turn a blind eye.

With all this recent goodwill he’ll probably end up being our prime minister at some point shudder