In regards to your edit, federation means sometimes updates are less synchronous than immediate. Some server somewhere got hung up on the way to serve you that data; maybe your own instance, the OP’s, or some third instance or multiple out there in the interwebs. I don’t have the technical knowledge to explain beyond that though.

Licensure. Simple just sold out, this is the fork.

This started as an edit to my comment but became more a comment of it’s own:

Edit: I think you may be edited your comment? The bit you added sounds like a reasonable assessment, that anyone more extreme in their beliefs is more prone to manipulation, likely due to the fact their desire for change may override “common sense” as we might call it.

If it was horseshoe theory they meant to discuss there would have been no need for them to say “This is classic far left”. They would have said “This is classic extremism”.

I’m not sure how valid horseshoe theory is in the first place.

Seriously? Unlike all the warm supportive right wing dehumanization. That person is sick. They’d be sick on either side of the aisle. Making this a left/right thing is small of you. I don’t know you so I didn’t expect better, but in a general sense I hoped people were better than what you’ve demonstrated here.

Yeah but I want him to say it and put on the funny hat.

It’s against my political philosophy to say this about a monarchy but it makes me kind of sad it’s gone. The world feels smaller without these sorts of things.