Nothing in ActivityPub says you can’t move your content from one platform to another.

Your content in ActivityPub is linked to the home instance. So for example I can’t move this post from lemmy.world to another server. I could copy/paste the content into a new post on another server, but it would be a broken piece of our conversation with no context or replies.

Also, hosting a ATProto self-instance is not as expensive as you suggest. This person did it for $150/month.

Regarding the alleged missing features of ActivityPub

There are significant differences in account portability. ActivityPub allows you to transfer your followers to a new server, but not your content.

only rich folks or those who are willing to accept money from venture capitalists

Or non-profits that are willing to accept money from supporters.

ActivityPub already existed when they started BlueSky. They chose to not make their protocol compatible.

Because AT protocol has features that are incompatible with ActivityPub, and those features are important to some users.

“Tesla is going down the toilet” is not insider information.

“The market is having trouble digesting the multidimensional chess that Trump and his team are playing,” said Michael Block, market strategist at Third Seven Capital. “This multidimensional chess game is not going well for the grand master.

LOL, you aren’t playing 3D chess when you flip a chessboard.

Of all the news in the past weeks, “5% of Democrats join Republicans in an inconsequential vote” is the least of my concerns.

The first line of your link:

Being part of the Kingdom of Denmark

Not the Netherlands.

The Netherlands does not in any way control Greenland…

Why is Greenland bound to a treaty signed by the Netherlands?

Nobody promised Trump would end up in prison. There was a very good chance that a cultist on his jury would have refused to convict. Or he might have been found guilty only on lesser charges and ended up paying a fine. Juries are unpredictable and often disappointing, from OJ Simpson to Kyle Rittenhouse.

It sounds like you expected the judicial system to do what voters failed to do. But the judicial system can’t stop Trump from being elected president. That was our responsibility as voters. Don’t blame judges when they can’t clean up our mess.

Trump has lost several court cases already, and many are just getting started. For example, today Cathy Harris was reinstated to the Merit Systems Protection Board.

If you expect the judicial system to broadly restore the status quo under Biden, then you’re probably going to be disappointed. Any victories will be on a case-by-case basis. That’s literally how the judicial system operates.

All arrests end with an appearance before a judge. If it’s obvious baloney, the judge will dismiss.

There is no need for judges to target anyone yet, because the Trump admin hasn’t been found in contempt.

Again, judges are used to threats and I don’t think they would find “domestic drone strike” to be a particularly credible response to “pay your workers or I’ll write the check myself”.

Because that’s what we’re talking about here: paying people. If you expect judges to completely reverse what Trump is doing, you’re going to be disappointed. They can’t do it.

And yes, part of the legal process is that lawyers are allowed to delay and judges have to put up with it. But they aren’t allowed to openly defy the judge. And so far, no Trump lawyer has done so.

Trump can’t pardon employees who are found in contempt of court. Trump might not lose sleep, but the employees will. Most employees, even Trump supporters, won’t take an assignment that will lead to losing their life savings.

Courts can stop some (not all) of what he is doing now. Which I think is what they are doing.

I don’t think Trump is going to turn the military loose against Americans, if that’s what you imagine as “push comes to shove”. That would be suicidal, for Trump. Especially because of his purges. The people in government who actually get things done had no loyalty to the president, and now they have no loyalty to their departmental leadership. Trump just made it far more likely that the people he needs will sit on their hands when he needs them most.

I mean, in one of the current Trump lawsuits the DoJ is literally pleading that their department is so understaffed and disrupted that they will all have to work overtime to meet a judge’s demands. The judge basically laughed in their face and said if the DoJ can’t get it together then they deserve to lose. Does that sound like a powerful DoJ that we should fear?

can a judge freeze a tank

Is Trump personally driving that tank?

Once you order the military to break the law, all bets are off. Things aren’t necessarily going to go your way, especially if you’re suddenly a very unpopular leader. I think a randomly chosen soldier would be equally likely to target the White House than another American citizen with that tank.

If the judicial branch wanted to stop him

The judicial system normally acts very slowly. They are the most deliberative branch of government. But they can move much faster when they are being defied.

And frankly it wasn’t their job to “stop” Trump. That was the job of voters, and we failed.

He also received an $83 million judgment, which he already paid. And a $400 million fine, which he will pay.

Also, keep in mind that Trump cannot act alone. Even if he could shrug off a million dollar fine, his employees cannot. And judges will target his employees, until nobody is willing to break the law for him.

The only people who can remove Trump from office are the legislative branch

That’s true.

We’re not talking about removing him from office, though. We are talking about judicial remedies, which usually involve paying restitution to people who have been wronged. And getting those people paid is not as difficult as you imagine.

He could just cut federal funding to any state that causes too much of a ruckus.

Governors might care if you cut federal funding to their states.

But judges don’t care. And judges don’t work for the governor.

a million levers to pull (pulling funding, national emergencies, the insurrection act, targeted coercion

There’s a reason why judges tend to consider themselves as untouchable. None of this would have any effect on them.

Judges sentence mafia captains and drug kingpins to jail, people for whom extortion and violent retribution are second nature. Why do you think they would suddenly be scared off by Trump’s crew of incompetent doofuses?

injunctions be ignored in perpetuity

No, they can’t. Nobody has an infinite bank account.

The US has checking accounts just like everyone else. That’s how they write paychecks.

And if a bank can draw from the US account when presented with a federal employee’s paycheck, it can do the same when presented with a court order.