Regardless, he wouldn't be in America without immigration. That's the point.

Neither would I. What’s your point?

But weren't they... spies?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Michael_Spavor_an...

> According to a report by The Globe and Mail in November 2023, Spavor sought a multimillion-dollar settlement against the federal government for involving him in espionage activities without his knowledge. Spavor alleged that he provided Michael Kovrig with intelligence on North Korea, which Kovrig then secretly gave to the Canadian government and its Five Eyes allies without Spavor's permission, leading to their arrest and detention

The article clearly indicates the gray area. Your comment oversimplifies that dramatically.

Israel starts new war every month, you can understand that it is risky to put your data in a data center that could be the target as well.

Claude/ChatGPT still end up making things up when they can't find anything, notebook is much better to 99% reply based on quotes. But yes a backup is to use Claude and grep, but not quite the same.

I have met him and also saw him standing next to Donald Trump and at political rallies. It wasn't imagined by left wing billionaire.

I have also read his Twitter account where he is spreading his right wing politics, every single day.

Ah yes.. the threat to invade us... should be taken lightly. Right. We should fall in line, let them bully us, do nothing, keep sending our money there.

I'm sure that your dear leader would also take lightly any threat of invasion against the United States.

You're taking it lightly right now. If you believe it isn't something to be taken lightly, why do your actions contradict your beliefs so badly?

We are talking of entrepreneurship and new companies, what small business are required to do for returns/refunds in the US is definitely not ahead of Europe for consumer protection.

It's not word choice, you are just making the wrong argument.

> That’s totally unclear.

Lol, welcome to US foreign policy. Or US trade policy. Totally unclear, and it's a feature.

Yes, lack of stability and clarity is entirely why people are steering away from the US. Yes things can change again next week, it's not a good thing.

But it's not always massive, it's a good practice to see what the diff is and ensure there is no weird dependency (aka supply chain attack) showing up in there.

In my opinion you have no chance of identifying supply chain attack like this. It's not like you will see "evil-package": "*" in there. Supply chain attacks happen by appending obfuscated code deep into dependency no one knew you had in the first place.

Threads is just another node that connects to ActivityPub, there is no "road" to enshittification.

Mastodon is independant, each instance manages itself, some are bad, some are good, you can even host your own, that's the power of decentralization.

With this logic, Threads is the biggest 'Mastodon instance' with 500M active users monthly.

Why aren't the general public using the original first 'instance' which is Mastodon if it is just another node?

> Mastodon is independant, each instance manages itself, some are bad, some are good, you can even host your own, that's the power of decentralization.

I think this is where it falls apart.

Nobody wants to waste their time host your own, moving from a rouge instance, trying to search for users to follow and the worst one:

Choosing which instance to sign up to.

It is no wonder that even Bluesky is more active than Mastodon.

If I was going to tell someone what social media to sign up to other than X, it has to be either Threads or Bluesky.

Practically, if you choose a big enough server, it's rarely a problem. mastodon.social is the most popular one, maintained by Mastodon the non-profit itself.

Biggest turn off and a killer feature depending on who you ask is a lack of Algorithm. That's why people who move away from Twitter feel disoriented, but people who were never on Twitter in the first place are alright.