That is certainly one perspective.

We’re all affected by how our respective governments were born, and grew up, or didn’t, or haven’t had the chance to.

Now, I get it. No one wants to feel like they actually voted for the conservative outcomes

This is projection. Can you conceive of someone with slightly different political values than yourself?

A half-measure at best, and you know it, because as with everything they do, we only have bipartisan support if the wealthy get the lion’s share of the money. That’s how it was with Obamacare and COVID relief. It’s what they do.

This is how you debate? “I’m right because politician bad”? Cite a source or two.

That totally matters in a country where marriage policies exist mostly at the state level

lol, with the small exceptions of my own tax bill and federal benefits.

and the Supreme Court has already admitted they’re gunning for gay marriage next.

Right…in which case federal recognition becomes critically important.

Confident doomsaying is always easy and popular on politics threads, and I just don’t buy it here. Before the 2022 midterms, commentators were just as confident that the economy (and inflation!) would hand the GOP a huge victory in Congress. Didn’t happen.

Biden’s done exactly what he said he would, which is to focus on and fight for laws and measures that have a chance of passing the US Congress. Hard to argue with his strategy.

On the economy:

• Consumer prices are up ~15%, not 30 and especially not 50… The twelve month change as of January 2023 was 6.4%.
• The US has 3 million more jobs than before the pandemic, and 1.7 job openings per unemployed job seeker.

Legislative record:

• A trillion dollar infrastructure deal with bipartisan support
• A federal gun control bill with bipartisan support
• A bill that finally recognizes same-sex and interracial marriage at the federal level. Passed the Senate with 12 Republican “yes” votes.

Right but to your other point, the admins who don’t fork will send you spam.

Also, even if I don’t upgrade to v0.18, I have to live in a fediverse that have other instances that WILL, and they might pose a problem with increased spam.

A fork avoids this problem how?

I disagree, once your open source project “sprouts wings” you enter an unspoken power battle. If enough of the community disagrees with something the chance of a successful fork grows. Once a project is forked away, you no longer have any control at all.

Who’s writing the code for the fork? If you see them, can you ask them to just submit the PR that the devs said they’ll approve?

Despite what you’re implying, the devs have no duty to fix admin-reported problems using admin-dictated solutions.

They have already said they would accept a PR adding support for captchas. Someone will undoubtedly do this before long.

Until then, why the urgency? What is it that’s preventing you from keeping your instance on 0.17?

So basically we are sitting in a room.