Crazy how living the way we’ve lived for thousands of years works well.

Can’t sell my data if I’ve never given them any

Because of the networking effect, people don’t leave.

Federation is strong specifically because of how it gets around the networking effect. You don’t need a .world account to see content from it. That doesn’t apply for Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube without shenanigans.

This notion that everyone’s just going to pick up and leave Lemmy

You don’t need to leave lemmy. It takes 10 minutes to set up a new account somewhere else, with zero downsides.

Even Lemmy isn’t magically immune. If the admins of .world got handed checks for a couple million dollars in exchange for the rights to operate the servers, what would discourage them from cashing out?

Nothing, but it would be far less disastrous than say some billionaire buying the town square of the internet.

Because it’s federated, everyone can just leave. There is nothing stopping people from ditching .world and moving on.

It is open source. But from what I can tell the accounts are largely still hosted centrally, and it isnt federated in any way, which isn’t great. Anybody can host an instance or server.

So ultimately it looks like a massive step up from Discord, with some small issues here and there.

https://developers.revolt.chat/faq.html

https://github.com/revoltchat/documentation/blob/master/docs/faq/instances.md

Same. I just hope my friend group and by some extension the gaming community chooses something that won’t fall into the same pitfal of closed source for profit organizations.

I hope the transition is towards matrix, or something like it.

We must grill the means of production.

https://leftvalues.github.io/results.html?a=52.9&b=73.4&c=36.7&d=71.4&e=51.9&f=31.9&g=16.2

I appreciate that this meme actually says what the source is, more political memes need to do so.

Even better would be if it contained a few links, with one or two being archival links.

You can’t do that in current society either.

Sure you can. You just have to have good lawyers, force users to agree to arbitration, or offer such a small product that it would never make sense for anyone to sue you in the first place.

Got any recommendations for where to find said APKs?

That, or they are intentionally spreading oil lobby propaganda, or they’re a gullible tool that feel for the oil lobby propaganda.

Right, someone has to produce those solar panels, the batteries that go along with it, transformers, the precursor products like copper wires, motors for rotating setups, etc.

How do you stop the producers from intentionally limiting the lifetime of the products for their own benefit?

How do you stop one group from manufacturing weapons of war and establishing an authoritarian hierarchy?

I might give it a try. Reading through the wiki article it looks pretty solid, and pretty much exactly like what I’d want out of a replacement economic system.

And TIL the origins of the name breadtube, which is neat.

That’s not much of an explanation.

What happens if somebody tries to tamper with those tools to gain power for themselves?

But I don’t really read much theory (because of a memory retention disorder)

I’m in a similar boat for the most part. I can handle news stories and short articles. But if I’m reading a book, it’s gotta be science fiction or else I get bored as fuck with it.

And the overlap between theory and science fiction isn’t as big as I’d like it.

I wouldn’t even feel safe if I had a close electrician friend strip the batteries for use as a house battery.

Yeah. And those industrial bots you work with are all metal, with high torque motors most likely.

Meanwhile this thing is going to be using the cheapest servos that can just barely meet the torque requirements, all in a plastic housing arm.

Gonna stick with my ender 3.

Assuming every hinge there is motorized, that’s 6 servos. That looks like a nightmare to calibrate, which it will need to do a lot of if it’s shoved in some backpack for travel on a routine basis.

And the print head looks like a bitch to take apart to service if you get a jam.

You think it’s was morally unacceptable for allied soldiers to defend their neighbors. You ain’t my friend.