I read a similar article a few weeks ago, and I think your concise summary is better than the article linked in this post.

I think Yanis goes a bit overboard with stating that capitalism kinda no longer exists, since it really is about a new group of rich people simply inserting their companies as evil middlemen who leach money off the whole system.

I’m not sure the solution has to be revolutionary or super complex. I’d think that large countries and groups of countries (e.g. USA, the EU) could implement their own mega marketplaces, leaching off much less money and avoiding the sort of corrupt BS that Amazon etc do to keep prices artificially high, and these governments could also stop allowing the mega platforms to do business in their region. Big countries want to facilitate an economy, and if private industry is proving to be too broken with their current approach, governments could step in to create more functional marketplaces that still work nicely in the internet age and don’t have horrible middlemen crap dragging everything down.

Great song. Powerful strategic use of dropping the f-bomb, and just an emotionally powerful song overall. It didn’t dramatically change the world, but it got plenty of airplay and it made it’s point.

Kbin and Lemmy etc should simply allow options for preferred languages, and people can select whatever they prefer. Giving them the option to not see posts or see translated posts should work out fine. I bet this problem get resolved eventually. In the meantime, I’m not too bothered by blocking magazines/communities that are non-english. No biggie.

You mean like…ALL life on Earth? From a single teaspoon full? I doubt it. Would it kill the drunk camper who picks it up and decides to use it to keep his sleeping bag warm? Maybe.

Shouldn’t I be out there hunting and killing right now?!

That bird is mine!

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Good for you. Luckily for random stranger lady, you didn’t take advantage of her situation.

Move in w/family members, get on food stamps, run up credit card debt…a variety of ways, really. Usually several combined.

Wow, really awesome work you and the admins have done.

Your jewelry design magazine is what I would hope for and expect from people who create mags. You have a logo, and have personally seeded it with over half a dozen posts. It’s a bit niche, so I’m not surprised that you don’t have many subscribers yet, but you seem to have done your part to establish it. Thanks.

I subbed to your mag Urban Details. Seems right up my alley, and I notice that a couple of folks have also been posting there. That seems promising.

That seems totally fine. Great :)

The real chaos would happen if all the recent UFO stuff turns out to be true. Aliens existing RIGHT HERE ON EARTH could quite possibly cause changes in one or more major religions, but maybe not immediately.

I replaced my old, fairly high end pc with a fairly high end Beelink a few months ago, and it’s working out fine. The beelink mini is cheaper, better and faster in every way, and will end up as about 5% of the trash my old PC exists as. I’m not sure I’m going back to full-sized desktop pcs, despite being a game artist/game developer who needs somewhat high specs to do my work.

8, 9 and 10 years: you dislike change, you are incredibly broke or you only have a smartphone in the first place because it’s basically necessary to function in modern society

We live in a mini valley in a rural spot, and don’t get cell reception in our house. Also, I always liked using desktops much more than phones.

It won’t take over Reddit, and doesn’t need to. Reddit will continue on, but be sort of irrelevant to the kind of people hanging out on Kbin.

I think the growth in the last month has shown that the Fediverse is already doing ok, despite it’s much smaller user base than Reddit, Twitter etc.

There is a nice amount of interesting content, plenty of interesting discussions, and a user base that frankly is more informed and thoughtful than most Reddit users. We don’t need massive growth to keep things interesting. Threads with 2k responses are kind of a turn off. I prefer enough chit chat to keep things interesting, while still feeling a bit personal and cozy.

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Block, baby, block. I’ve been blocking tons of communities/magazines I don’t want, and that really helps shape my feed into something I’m not annoyed at.

I was a bit of a Marxist communist in my mid 20s, and ate ‘free’(stolen) food quite frequently at a restaurant I worked at, after a more hard core Marxist co-worker mentioned that as a way to drag ‘the system’ down. It seemed sort of ethical at the time, but I regretted it later in life.

Bot account. sigh.

Thanks for the heads up!

I deleted the comment I made. I’m not interested in this sort of bot in the fediverse.

Edit: tried to delete comment when I found out this was posted by a bot. I can’t seem to find a way to delete a comment. wtf?