Kids got a point. Marx is one of the great economists and philosophers and by far the most influential ever not reading him because you're not a communist is throwing the baby out with the bathwater
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
And some of y'all are really on here birching about censoring Meta's "free speech" #Zuccolds
Maybe it's not "mob mentality" maybe it's about preventing monopolization of server ownership. Anyone can spin up a node and anyone can block it. Sounds like open sourced community decision making to me .
Between mastodon, Lemmy, kbin, and now nostr I can finally ditch all centralized algorithm infested social media for good
Maps by Billy Woods and Kenny segal
My album of the year so far:
Sometimes I think about what the United Nations could've been and I get really fucking pissed off.
We're trained by the attention economy to have a very high time preference. Little nuggets of serotonin in exchange for your clicks and data. Consciousness itself commodified. Sickening.
William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Herman Melville, Arthur Miller, Frank Herbert, Sam Delaney, Ursula Leguin
It's only problem is it's naivety about how to achieve its stated goals. Enforcing and maintaining a classless status quo would require a period of strong central control at least a few generations long. Reactionary forces from within and political sabatogebfrom without can't be wished away with good will