This sets an alarming precedent where a sitting us president can kidnap the acting head of another country (elected or not) which is an act of war, without the us being at war or having authorization from congress.
So, I look at this how I first saw the fediverse. There was a promise of collaboration, a united against monopolistic tech companies that originally drew me in, but how it worked was not clearly explained and I didn't really understand until much after joining Lemmy, most users don't care for the complexity and while you are correct that a cetralized Lemmy would go against the purpose of the fediverse, my idea would be of a communal lobby not one ran from a single instance but as a collaboration between the biggest instances. It only would display a catalog of instances and use API endpoints to create a new users account. The feddisearch already exists and could just be either linked to this page or also pulled in using an API if possible. Management would be handled by the owners of all member instances as well as financing.
I guess the question finally falls in do we want to go up against the big tech companies and improve the internet, or just want to exist inone of the Internet's corners and be left alone?
A global landing page that let's people join from, asks them some basic questions and selects a server based on those answers wall while explaining in laymen's tense why. Then when the user finishes signing up presents them with a printable page of their login (user ID, server, etc.) for them to keep in their records and a button to take them straight in.
I would have left already if it wasn't that I have kids in college to support and would like to see on the holidays without spending an arm and a leg to fly then here. My spouse also doesn't want to leave but she is slowly coming around so hopefully in 4-5 years I'll be leaving for some tropical beach or european car-independent heaven and never looking back.
Gridfinity all the things