BaratundeWhat’s good Mastodon!? What do we call ourselves? Mastos? Mastodoners! Doners? FEDERALISTS?? Please tell me we are federalists. I would love to reclaim that word.
Alec Perkins@baratunde Federales?
Ricardo Harvin@alec @baratunde "where are your badges?"
tolortslubor
thebishopgame
SoonerMedic 
The Chaotic Good 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🖖@baratunde Federalists sounds very good. I'm pretty sure we could call ourselves a #federation :)
Peter Bonney@Aminorjourney @baratunde Tweak it to “THE Federation” and I endorse. :)
@baratunde @PeterKBonney but that would upset the Vulcans.
That Blair Guy@Aminorjourney The Vulcans? Or the Ni'Vari? 😉
@ThatBlairGuy oh of course the Vulcans.
@Aminorjourney They do seem to have some misgivings about those highly emotional humans running around unsupervised.
Which is a bit ironic considering that as "Ni'Vari", the emotion-laden Romulans get included in that race. Which seems like a potential source of dramatic tension for some of the story tellers out there.
But I digress. Calling this "The Federation" seems a fun means of teasing certain easily irritated Vulcans who miss that irritation is an emotional response.
Vaughn@baratunde whatever we call us, glad you're here.
Jon (now at neuromatch.social)@baratunde does that mean people who don't like mastodon are anti-federalists? i like it!
also, hi!
Carl Gay@jdp23 @baratunde I don't know...I'm not an expert on federalism, but my sense is that it's a major reason why we (in the USA) can't Have Nice Things. The bulk of the population is fairly progressive (favors abortion, gun laws, and public services) but states have lots of power so nothing gets done at the federal level?
Anyway, as I say, I'm not an expert, this is just the sense I get.
Fahri Reza 🍉@sigue @jdp23 @baratunde even at state level it's not representative of the population at some states, CMIIW
@dozymoe @jdp23 @baratunde Is it really that hard to type "correct me if I'm wrong"? I spent precious time looking that up.
@sigue @jdp23 @baratunde yes
(sent from android)
@dozymoe It is up to you to decide whether you want to be understood.
Inspired@sigue @jdp23 @baratunde I think you are right but there are consequential differences here. If state government is powerful due to federalism it is hard to move if you don't like the choices they make. It is relatively easy to move in the Fediverse. Not to diminish the difficulties, but easier than selling your home and likely finding a new job. Also, some of the additional problems are that national politics are health influenced by one state two votes in the Senate irrespective of population.
@inspired @jdp23 @baratunde I bet where you said "health influenced" you meant "heavily influenced". 😂 Yes, that's absolutely a big part of the problem.
Joe ❌👑@sigue @jdp23 @baratunde No, we in the USA just have an unbalanced federation. Germany also has a federal system, but it isn't biased in favor of rural states and can't be gerrymandered.
James Britton@baratunde I vote for Federalists. Great to see you here!
christina blove that. ❤️
More inclusive of other projects, too.
It's even a verb already.
💥
#Federalists
#HowToFederate
Ed Bott@baratunde Feds, man. We're all Feds now.
Isaac Rabinovitch
John Mark 
☑️@baratunde WHO FUNDS THE FEDERALIST!
Robin@baratunde Baratunde! You’re here! I’m so happy!
Tarkus@baratunde Mastobators, I think. 🤔
pszNicx@baratunde Tooters 😆
notorious rgb@baratunde we’re all Feds
Heidi Li Feldman@baratunde It would hilarious to take back federalists, but I think we are 'donners.
Eric Stein �@heidilifeldman @baratunde uhoh donner parties have not always gone well
Vince Gatton@baratunde @heidilifeldman Oh, god — does that make us the ‘Donner Party?
@vincegatton @baratunde We survived!
@heidilifeldman @baratunde AT WHAT COST, THOUGH, HEIDI??? AT WHAT COST???
@vincegatton @baratunde We did what had to! Don’t hate yourself.
(((Cindy Weinstein)))@baratunde. Or Mastodonians.
Word_Whiz@CindyWeinstein @baratunde That’s how I’ve described us before, so I’m partial to that one.
Kay 
@baratunde Mastomates 😉
Tom Maxwell
Toddo 
@baratunde My personal fav is #Mastonauts
CJ Lucke@toddo @baratunde boldly going!
Jason McIntosh@baratunde Mastiktokers
Blacklistedpg2@jmac @baratunde that should stick🤣🥁
B Bigelow@baratunde I’ve happily used “Mastodonian”
Chris Neklason@baratunde Mastodonistas!
Rich Puchalsky 
@baratunde On the anarchist server that I'm on, people like "Feds" for short. Just go there and tell everyone that you are a Fed, they will be very pleased.
Edited to add: since this is Mastodon, I guess I should be sure to tell people that this is a joke
T. McElwee
Shelenn Ayres@baratunde We are all Fedizens (Mastodon is only one of many network types in the Fediverse.)
FolmerFedizen is also what I'd think as the best option
I've seen the discussion a few times during the past weeks.
@baratunde Extinct Pachyderms. EPs for short.
Nick@baratunde Maastrichts....oh wait
Coach Pāṇini ®
climate voter/degrowthist@baratunde Mastodonians. No, seriously, I don't think we need a moniker.
Jen Roth ⚾ 👟@baratunde Mastodonians?
Brian Hawthorne@baratunde I’ll go with federalists, but only if we can call it the Federation.
Joao Dordio@baratunde is too much diminishing to just be ex-twitters?