Who said we’re in late stage capitalism? If you ask the libertarians, we’ve been out of any sincere capitalism since WWII.
Who said we’re in late stage capitalism? If you ask the libertarians, we’ve been out of any sincere capitalism since WWII.
Can you define “socialism”? I’m a little lost on how any social media with a hosting provider or moderator can ever be socialism.
Technically, anything can be scraped (e.g. Internet Archive), but that doesn’t mean it’s interactive.
I’d say the volatility of computer data means someone could theoretically nuke it whenever they want, though there may be remnants on other instances.
I’m curious enough to enforce Cunningham’s Law: It’s not on blockchain, so it’s deleted if the instance is deleted.
Right wing? Money is a pretty nonpartisan matter.
Most of the right-wingers have already fled off to Gab, MeWe, or Mastodon.
They might flee into the rest of the world and learn social skills. The horror!
This will be funny how bad it’ll go. I expect ridiculous blocking coming.
Then come the AI bots who comment…
This plays out like things I’ve seen in real life:
In all fairness, that’s how Twitter did things from what I can understand.
Of course, that can be quite the payroll expense, especially with a weird model with a panoply of interest-based domains.
I’m sure the Reddit employees will be up to it and has all the equipment necessary for it. That protest was about the amazing internal tooling the mods loved using, right?
It’s the emergence of a new community. When things get big, people feel less individually responsible, and that’s how trouble starts.
You’ll always have to rely on someone else, unless you build the thing yourself.
The beauty of the fediverse concept is that it’s about as easy as possible to build it yourself.
The cost of running a host is a matter of economical management:
Most open-source is funded as passion projects by devoted geeks who typically already make a living doing other computer things anyway, and fediverse is a bit of the same.
I don’t think so. FLOSS devs never seem to attract FLOSS designers. I’d love to collab with them, but they all seem to like designing not-FLOSS things.