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.
Phileosopher
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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.
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:
- Get a community/club/church/workplace going with a good set of leaders.
- The system becomes unwieldy through bureaucracy, excessive rules, whatever.
- Leadership can't change it, so they storm off in a huff after nobody listens to them.
- Power-mongering Assistant to the Regional Manager takes their shot to run the show.
- Everything becomes awful.
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.
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Your reasoning touches on a deep philosophical concept: what is "ownership"?
I'd say owning something is easy enough when you can't duplicate it (I can't just copy your car or house to save money). Duplication, however, means the ownership is technically the abstraction of "intellectual property", which worked fine when duplicating cost money and people paid money for it.
However, the very essence of using a computer on a network is simply using copies. You're not reading this as I write it, but a copy your computer downloaded.