The guy’s global entry was cancelled in retaliation of what he posted. He’s still able to go through the regular immigration line. There’s absolutely nothing in the video about not being able to enter the country.

Is it wrong that CPB retaliated against this guy and cancelled his global entry? Yes. If the title of your post and commentary completely inaccurate? Also yes.

Newsweek is famous for sensationalized headlines. The actual article is correct, but the headlines barely match the article. This website is built for being posted to reddit, where hardly anyone will click the link let alone actually read the article.

During the election, they’d post articles like “Trump DEVASTATED by new poll results”, and it would be something like Trump being down 1.5%.

The travel advice from the European countries that have issued a “warning” is that “an ESTA doesn’t guarantee entry to the US” and “the decision regarding your entry is made by the customs and border protection officer”. That’s not a travel warning. None of these countries have said not to go to the US, just that if you choose to go to the US, you are not guaranteed entry.

The Netherlands has issued the closest thing to a travel warning specifically for LGBT people.. They warn that only the gender markers M/F are currently accepted by the US government and link to the human rights watch website regarding safety for LGBT people in the US. That page also has the same “warning” that CBP makes the determination of entry and ESTA doesn’t guarantee entry. But literally right at the top of the page, the US is in green, which means that the Dutch government currently considers the US a safe country to visit.

To be clear, I think there should be actual travel warnings against travel to the US. I definitely think the US should be yellow for the Netherlands. But I would not call clarifying border entry proceedures “a travel warning”.

I can understand that desire, but think about this from a practical perspective. You are on lemmy.world, but someone else is on lemmy.ml. If you both use the same app that does this behind the scenes aggregation for you, you won’t be able to tell which instance is holding which post. Let’s say someone on sh.itjust.works posts on their instance of a community, but the app just makes it appear like it’s in the community.

Now, if lemmy.world blocks sh.itjust.works and lemmy.ml does not, then you can’t see that post, since it’s blocked for you. But the person on lemmy.ml and on sh.itjust.works would be able to see it. This is a good example of solving a problem by create a dozen new ones.

Lemmy developers have been discussing how to address this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

There isn’t a clear solution, since some communities have different names, so how would an app know to join them? Or would you join communities that had deliberately been split for various reasons?

I’m sure the apps developed for Lemmy will ‘combine’ those behind the scenes for a smoother user experience.

I don’t think that’s a good idea, it would give the impression of something that is not there. Imagine talking to someone about a post that you just read but that someone else literally can’t see because they aren’t using the app, so they can’t see that instance. Plus, how do you handle communities on instances that have been blocked by some other instances?

A better way would be to have a way to officially merge these communities within ActivityPub. Effectively, have a protocol for cross instance communities, and then the mods of the disparate communities would just have to actively choose to join their communities. It’d be like the reddit sub splitting, but in reverse!