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@escarpment@mastodon.online
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Anonymous person. I'm here to read and learn. I like to help people. If someone has a question, consents to receiving advice, and I know the answer, I gladly provide that answer.

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Joined November 06, 2022
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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Jan 30, 2026
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@cemedia@mastodon.social Is this account controlled by the Iranian government for Iranian propaganda?

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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Jan 03, 2026
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I expect this to be an evergreen observation that will apply to pretty much any controversial news story: the people who model the world as good vs evil, democracy vs tyranny, law vs lawlessness (in other words, moral realists) will never cease to be surprised and disturbed by how events actually play out. Those who model the world as conflicts between preference optimizing agents will consistently have their expectations confirmed.

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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Dec 17, 2025
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@cemedia@mastodon.social I had long suspected this "satirical" site was merely an antisemitic mouthpiece. But this sort of article puts it in even more fringe company, such as Alex Jones' conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook shooting. When you have such strong preferences against Jewish people and Israel, those preferences create the sort of cognitive dissonance that would lead to such a looney insinuation - all attacks on Jews must be psy-ops or false flags.

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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Dec 16, 2022
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Anonymous person. I'm here to read and learn. I like to help people. If someone has a question, consents to receiving advice, and I know the answer, I gladly provide that answer.

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Replying to @dalias@hachyderm.io
@dalias@hachyderm.io @jensimmons@front-end.social That's a risk. Maybe a work email / personal email sort of thing? Politicians often have their office social media presence and their personal or campaign social media presence.
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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Nov 12, 2022
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Anonymous person. I'm here to read and learn. I like to help people. If someone has a question, consents to receiving advice, and I know the answer, I gladly provide that answer.

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Replying to @Hairyloon@mastodon.social
@Hairyloon@mastodon.social @indri@masto.ai @ifixcoinops@mastodon.social @Gargron@mastodon.social Yeah, this risks being the "good king" problem. As long as the admin is "good" and conscientious, as many of them are, this works really well. But when establishing systems, you have to worry about every admin and their successor from here to eternity. That's why kings and dictators are dangerous.
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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Nov 11, 2022
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@escarpment@mastodon.online

Anonymous person. I'm here to read and learn. I like to help people. If someone has a question, consents to receiving advice, and I know the answer, I gladly provide that answer.

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Replying to @indri@masto.ai
@indri@masto.ai @ifixcoinops@mastodon.social @Hairyloon@mastodon.social @Gargron@mastodon.social Probably! My high level hypothesis is that some online disputes originate from an ad-hoc process of "rule making" where people decide on unwritten rules and then punish people for violating them, without allowing space for the full making process (what about this case? What about this potential dispute? What about this contradiction or this exception? Who decides? How do we choose who decides?)
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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Nov 11, 2022
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Anonymous person. I'm here to read and learn. I like to help people. If someone has a question, consents to receiving advice, and I know the answer, I gladly provide that answer.

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Replying to @lemonflavoured@mastodon.social
@lemonflavoured@mastodon.social I can't say I've always wondered, but that is an interesting question! https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-iv/clauses/42 "In cases such as Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Oregon (1912), the Supreme Court has refused to invalidate various forms of direct democracy permitted by state law, such as popular initiative and referendum, on the ground that they violate the Guarantee Clause"
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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Nov 11, 2022
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@escarpment@mastodon.online

Anonymous person. I'm here to read and learn. I like to help people. If someone has a question, consents to receiving advice, and I know the answer, I gladly provide that answer.

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Replying to @Varpie@mastodon.online
@Varpie@mastodon.online @BenAveling@mastodon.ie @Gargron@mastodon.social I guess what I'm envisioning is that there exist many flavors of the "Mastodon Constitution", similar to software licenses like MIT or GPL. And each server chooses a well known one, or rolls their own. But potentially they all share certain things in common.
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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Nov 11, 2022
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@escarpment@mastodon.online

Anonymous person. I'm here to read and learn. I like to help people. If someone has a question, consents to receiving advice, and I know the answer, I gladly provide that answer.

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Replying to @Varpie@mastodon.online
@Varpie@mastodon.online @BenAveling@mastodon.ie @Gargron@mastodon.social Perhaps. I agree- there would be servers that do not accept the constitution. There could be servers that accept a different set of rules that is unpalatable to the majority of instances which adopt the constitution and therefore they defederate from those instances. I guess the question is: could some centralization actually be good? (A conference; a virtual conference; a meet up for admins; a global support team that helps admins fight fires).
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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Nov 11, 2022
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@escarpment@mastodon.online

Anonymous person. I'm here to read and learn. I like to help people. If someone has a question, consents to receiving advice, and I know the answer, I gladly provide that answer.

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Replying to @ifixcoinops@mastodon.social
@ifixcoinops@mastodon.social @Hairyloon@mastodon.social @Gargron@mastodon.social Doesn't have to be. That's another good topic for discussion when drafting a constitution. The USA is most familiar to me and happens to consist of several independent but united states, each with their own laws, but which also answer to a federal jurisdiction. I'm sure there's some as-yet better structure. We all know the USA is far from a perfect union!
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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Nov 11, 2022
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@escarpment@mastodon.online

Anonymous person. I'm here to read and learn. I like to help people. If someone has a question, consents to receiving advice, and I know the answer, I gladly provide that answer.

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Replying to @ifixcoinops@mastodon.social
@ifixcoinops@mastodon.social @Hairyloon@mastodon.social @Gargron@mastodon.social I don't think the nationality of the server prevents applying the principles of federalism present in the US constitution to the fediverse. Whatever nation of origin the server lives in shouldn't preclude establishing a system of governance that draws inspiration from existing federal systems.
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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Nov 11, 2022
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Replying to @my@social.simonwgill.com
@my@social.simonwgill.com That's a good question to debate when constructing the founding documents. In the USA, we have a process by which other states decide when a state is a state. Section 3 New States and Federal Property of United States Clause 1 New States New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union
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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Nov 11, 2022
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Anonymous person. I'm here to read and learn. I like to help people. If someone has a question, consents to receiving advice, and I know the answer, I gladly provide that answer.

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Replying to @escarpment@mastodon.online
@BenAveling@mastodon.ie @Gargron@mastodon.social But yes, perhaps even in the absence of federal govt, you simply have to adhere to the other server's rules when interacting with people on that server... gets tricky for when you're just posting out into the void. Seems unfair for the rules of every single one of your followers' servers to apply to all of your posts. I don't have answers- I just think this is the correct framing and right way to approach these issues.
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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Nov 11, 2022
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Anonymous person. I'm here to read and learn. I like to help people. If someone has a question, consents to receiving advice, and I know the answer, I gladly provide that answer.

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Replying to @BenAveling@mastodon.ie
@BenAveling@mastodon.ie @Gargron@mastodon.social That's an option. There could be a federal government, though. Servers could send representatives to a conference on some cadence to set and update rules that apply to those servers.
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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Nov 11, 2022
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@escarpment@mastodon.online

Anonymous person. I'm here to read and learn. I like to help people. If someone has a question, consents to receiving advice, and I know the answer, I gladly provide that answer.

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Replying to @escarpment@mastodon.online
@BenAveling@mastodon.ie @Gargron@mastodon.social The Bill of Rights and Article IV establish a baseline for what laws the states may pass. "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,"- no US State can become a monarchy or a dictatorship.
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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Nov 11, 2022
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Replying to @BenAveling@mastodon.ie
@BenAveling@mastodon.ie @Gargron@mastodon.social This is a similar question to the one facing the framers of the US constitution. Article IV has a bit of their answer (the full faith and credit clause). The federal govt of the US often has jurisdiction when disputes cross state lines- should there be a "federal govt" for the fediverse? Or is the answer "be careful out beyond the safety of your server: other servers have slightly different rules that we can't protect you from."
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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Nov 11, 2022
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Anonymous person. I'm here to read and learn. I like to help people. If someone has a question, consents to receiving advice, and I know the answer, I gladly provide that answer.

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Replying to @Hairyloon@mastodon.social
@Hairyloon@mastodon.social @Gargron@mastodon.social Technically migrating servers is pretty seamless. Much easier than moving from California to Ohio! And yeah, that could be the question facing both participants on a mastodon server and citizens of a state in the US. Is it worth upping and leaving because the laws and governance of this state/server are so antithetical to my own views?
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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Nov 11, 2022
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Anonymous person. I'm here to read and learn. I like to help people. If someone has a question, consents to receiving advice, and I know the answer, I gladly provide that answer.

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Replying to @escarpment@mastodon.online
@Hairyloon@mastodon.social @Gargron@mastodon.social I guess article IV of the US Constitution is where they attempt to address this issue. The full faith and credit clause.
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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Nov 11, 2022
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Anonymous person. I'm here to read and learn. I like to help people. If someone has a question, consents to receiving advice, and I know the answer, I gladly provide that answer.

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Replying to @escarpment@mastodon.online
@Hairyloon@mastodon.social @Gargron@mastodon.social Probably when communicating with people from outside your server, only the laws which apply to both servers apply...? Or only the more generic "federal" laws adopted by the fediverse Congress which meets once a year and has elected representatives from each server.
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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Nov 11, 2022
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@escarpment@mastodon.online

Anonymous person. I'm here to read and learn. I like to help people. If someone has a question, consents to receiving advice, and I know the answer, I gladly provide that answer.

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Replying to @Hairyloon@mastodon.social
@Hairyloon@mastodon.social @Gargron@mastodon.social "In all cases ... in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction." I dunno... I find it somewhat interesting that this is exactly the same issue with two states that have different laws. The constitution forbids states from having certain laws. Other laws are enforced only within the state (posting at people on your server). Beyond state lines, it gets into federal jurisdiction.
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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Nov 11, 2022
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Anonymous person. I'm here to read and learn. I like to help people. If someone has a question, consents to receiving advice, and I know the answer, I gladly provide that answer.

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Replying to @escarpment@mastodon.online
@Gargron@mastodon.social Then when people enter a dispute about content warning or no content warning, they can check their respective server rules and use that to settle it. E.g. if the rule were "content warnings are encouraged but not required. It is not recommended to chastise someone for their choice of content warning or not. It is encouraged to inform your followers about content warnings and when to use them..." Not necessarily suggesting that rule, just a rule in that vein.
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Escarpment @escarpment@mastodon.online · Nov 11, 2022
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Anonymous person. I'm here to read and learn. I like to help people. If someone has a question, consents to receiving advice, and I know the answer, I gladly provide that answer.

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Replying to @Gargron@mastodon.social
@Gargron@mastodon.social I think it's a great discussion (though I seem to get blocked by someone every time I wade into it). I'm still very interested to see a section on that in an open source "constitution" of sorts for the fediverse. Servers could adopt the constitution in whole or in part.
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