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.
The trouble with socialism, though, is that any implementation of it strips away meaning in the process of trying to help people.
Meaning comes from a person feeling responsibility for what they do. That responsibility requires exposure to risk if they don’t act.
Almost any policy created to help people without a well-guarded limit will quickly become paternalism and, consequently, strip away meaning.
Can you define “socialism”? I’m a little lost on how any social media with a hosting provider or moderator can ever be socialism.
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 plays out like things I’ve seen in real life:
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.