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  • While the US has problems, merely having a constitution (1) the courts meaningfully refer to (2) that demands special effort to amend isn’t clearly a problem.

    I can agree with that. I guess what I take more of an issue with really comes down to “American civil religion”.

    Americans seem to be taught (from my outsider perspective) that the basis of which the US was founded upon is perfect and needs no changing ever. There’s so much propaganda surrounding the founding documents that even suggesting changing something is basically akin to blasphemy. Like look at the second amendment. Even suggesting that maybe it doesn’t fit into modern society is considered heresy.

    That sort of thing is why I really don’t like politicians claiming that their country is “the best in the world”. You see it in Canada too, and I hate it because even if it’s true, it just sort of waves away the many improvements that can be made. There’s ALWAYS things to improve upon


  • That’s kind of my point though. In Canada, the only reason I know our constitution is even looked at in 2025 is because my friend works in environmental policy. The amount of times I hear that some American was exonerated in a court case because <something> broke the <something> US constitutional amendment is crazy. It’s just weird to me that a short document that was mostly written so long ago plays such a part in American law, especially with what you mentioned about it being so hard to update. This has been said to death but the right to bear arms was an amendment written when guns were single shot and took ages to reload.


















  • I believe there was talk of opening it up to the fediverse but not sure where they landed on it

    Edit: From the linked FAQ actually

    Does Revolt have federation

    As of right now, Revolt does not feature any federation and it is not in our feature roadmap.

    However, this does not necessarily mean federation is off the table, possible avenues are:

    • Implement our own federation protocol
    • Implement a promising up and coming federation protocol, polyproto
    • Implement the Matrix protocol (unlikely, obtuse and unstable)
    • Implement the XMPP protocol (battle-tested and stable)

    Any federation that is implemented MUST exercise caution in:

    • Preventing spam and abuse: moderators should be able to block malicious actors
    • Protecting user data: users should be able to redact all of their information and messages