ProdigalFrog @ ProdigalFrog @slrpnk.net

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Ideally houses that aren't used by anyone would be cared for collectively, and would be free for anyone to use for as much time as they need it.

That assumes that housing is a human right, and that adequate housing exists with a small surplus in most societies (and considering there are more empty homes than there are homeless in the US right now, that would be a feasible thing to achieve were capitalism not creating intense conflicts of interests).

The answer you receive will vary based on which political ideology you ask.

I will answer from the perspective of an anarchist.

Your Aunt and her Husband are not committing the greatest of evils, but in the grand scheme of things, they're a part of a bigger problem, one that they themselves would not even perceive, and in fact would have strong personal incentives not to grant legitimacy were it explained to them.

Anarchists, or libertarian socialists, are generally against the concept of private property in all forms. This is not to be confused with personal property, which are things you personally own and use, such as the house you live in, your car, your tools.

Private property is something you own to extract profit from simply by the act of owning it, and necessarily at the deprivation and exploitation of someone else.

By owning those townhomes that they themselves do not live in, they are able to exploit the absolute basic human requirement for shelter in an artificially restricted market, and thus acquire surplus value in a deal of unequal leverage.

You could argue they are justified due to offering below market rates, taking on the financial risk of owning and maintaining the property, and fronting the capital to own the investment.

But the issue is: their choice to become landlords is what in fact creates the conditions for which they can then offer solutions in order to claim moral justification.

For if we consider if landlordism were completely abolished, and people were only allowed to own homes they personally use, it would result in an insane amount of housing stock to flood the market, causing housing prices to plummet. This would in turn allow millions of lower income people to be able to afford a home and pay it off quickly, allowing them to actually build wealth for the first time instead of most of it going to pay off rent (remember, your aunt charging below market is the exception, not the norm).

Most humans would much rather pay off a small mortgage on a non-inflated home themselves, instead of paying off someone else's artifically inflated mortgage and then some.

But that's all assuming we have a housing market still. In an ideal Anarchist society, housing would be a human right, and every human would have access to basic shelter and necessities of life, like was enacted for a short time in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War.

There's tabletop electric burners and induction burners thar run off standard 110 outlets, I wonder if those would be allowed?

Interesting how in every case, they betray their anarchist allies as soon as they get even a feeble hold of state power. There must be a really good peer reviewed paper that conclusively suggests that must be done. Scientifically.

The concepts of socialism were pretty nailed down by the 1930's, and anyone back then who was familiar with any of the leading socialist ideas would not call nationalism or an ethno state socialist.

The Nazi's called their party socialist because it was popular with the working classes at the time, but they were not actually socialist in policy whatsoever, it was only ever a branding/optics choice.

Consider at that same time the Spanish Civil War was happening, which involved a huge faction of Anarchists spreading the much older ideas of Kropotkin and Bakunin, and they rightly called the Nazi's Fascist, and absolutely did not consider them a twisted offshoot of socialism.

I would argue authoritarian 'leftism' is just a misnamed right wing ideology wearing the sheepskin of socialism, where as Anarchism / Libertarian Socialism is the 'real' far left.

If it's mimicking star wars rebel assault, I imagine mouse control is the most likely.

I hope Rojava makes it out okay and things don't get fucky.

There's multiple paths in the game that open up slightly different content. There's a critical point when you can choose to take Sophia with you, or to go it alone with either thinking (harder puzzles) or fighting.

The balloon is shortly before the submarine on that path (I believe it's the sophia path)

It's not a welrod, that would require a totally different motion to chamber another round, which is more awkward and slower than what's seen in the video.

He likely had a browning action pistol with a silencer attached, but didn't test it well enough to iron out the jamming issue. That would explain the unfired bullets being found, as he likely ejected some accidentally while racking the slide.

It warms my heart to know that damn parrot is burned into someone else's memory too

This requires people willing and able to do so. Considering most Americans live paycheck to paycheck I don't see this as real and viable currently.

I can't dispute that. More of the US workforce would need to unionize for it to be possible.

This issue i see with this approach is that some people will always try to be the opposite and we end up in a stalemate. Also, people can be ignorant and not even understand that there is something that needs to be done. There's so much misinformation in the world today.

I think if it reached a certain point of popularity, it would become so self evident of its benefits for the working class that it would snowball. But it would take a lot of education and time.

If we look at how Spain was able to have a libertarian socialist revolution, it apparently took 75 years of steady education (some through independent ferrer schools) and organizing before the populace as a whole was educated enough on the concepts and practiced enough through militant unionization to finally attempt a mass resistance movement.

I suspect the U.S. higher literacy rate combined with the internet may reduce the time needed.

also @inv3r510n@lemmy.world

The wealth disparity is the same, but the populace and circumstances are a bit different:

1. There was not a literal fascist propaganda news network brainwashing half the voter base (Fox news)
2. There wasn't a significant population which believed any ol conspiracy tossed at them
3. His political opponents didn't have a cult, comprised of anti-intellectuals
4. We didn't have an enemy state attempting to influence our elections (at least, not nearly on the same level)
5. Had a serious left-leaning populist political opponent in Huey Long (before his assassination) preaching his Share the Wealth progam.

I don't disagree that it was a hard fight for the working class to even get that much, even without those externalities

If a significant portion the US population went on general strike, things would change quickly.

The other option, which is slower, is to build up alternative systems in a network of mutual aid, like cooperatively owned insurance, businesses, housing, energy systems, etc. Essentially slowly replace the state with hundreds of interconnected coops.

also @Kbobabob@lemmy.world

I've gotten an extremely similar comment on a couple posts I've made here on lemmy, in a video community no less.

Personally I just said something's like "welp, sorry that's not your preferred format." and then just move on.

With how infrequent posts like that are, they don't effect me at all, but It'd probably suck more if I was consistently getting negative comments like that,

With the current voting system, no real restrictions on billionaire funding, and a complicit mainstream media... I don't think we're gonna get much from electoralism at this point, we're kinda on our own. FDR didn't have all these obstacles back in the day.

The minute that the community is able to meaningfully rest control of ATProto away from bluesky and host fully independent servers that can intercommunicate, I no longer have beef with it. if it can be made too work with activitypub later and they can learn from each other and improve, I'm all for it.

the hesitation at the moment is that first step may not be achieved, from what I understand.

The Bluesky firehose throughput is massive and any home ActivityPub instance that tried to enter the network would easily be overwhelmed just loading the basic home page feed.

AKAIK, activitypub (on mastodon) only requests and receives content from individual users that have been followed by someone on the local instance, it wouldn't load all of bluesky at once, it would just need to have an up to date database of bluesky's users so they are easily searchable. With that model, even crappy PC's can interact with the mega servers.

Plus, many ActivityPub folks don't want to federate with big companies anyway.

With the OP's point of ATProto being open-source, I assume the thrust of the argument is that at done point there would be a community hosted instance, which were it compatible, I think most activitypub se rvers would gladly federate with.

I don't think ActivityPub is made for large servers

Ideally there doesn't need to be any, as the conglomeration of all smaller instances should be able to act as a large server. Unfortunately as it currently stands, the UI of most fediverse software makes interacting with that wider pool more difficult than it needs to be, and thus punishes smaller Mastodon servers with more difficult discovery of interesting topics or people to follow. But I think that can be overcome simply with better UI design.

AP works well for following friends and family, it's kind of terrible for the tailored topic based social media feed most people want out of social media apps these days.

Again, I think that's a UI problem. I don't use mastodon myself because of it, as I find it difficult to find people that interest me. However, Lemmy's use of Topics, and more critically, the existence of Lemmyverse.net which searches across all instances, make finding interesting things possible regardless of the size of your home instance. It's criminal that that functionality is not a native feature in the standard lemmy Ui, and I'm not aware of anything similar for mastodon.

I'd rather that ATProto was just compatible with activitypub to begin with, or allowed for meaningful federation.

The ability to scale up into a behemoth like twitter will only be viable for a minority of people who can afford the infrastructure to do so, and with that level of centralization comes a certain level of control and allowable viewpoints. Not the worst thing if the people running it are good folk, but that's always reliant on luck, and your chances to roll a good team lessen dramatically with such a small pool of servers. Not to mention the inherent problem of adequate moderation on mega servers, where the ratio of mods/admins to users can quickly become overwhelming, especially if reliant on volunteers who don't like the feeling of just being a cog in a greater machine.

ActivityPub, on the other hand, allows for anyone to host an instance with an old laptop, while still having access to the big picture.

The argument should not be to tolerate ATProto since it's easier to use, it should be to rile up support to make Activitypub's interconnections so intuitive and smooth to use by default, that it can easily offer those 'big social media vibes' to those who want it.

The potential social benefits of truly federated, Citizen Owned media cannot be overstated.

I was speaking more about Community (equivalent to a subreddit) moderation, as opposed to instance level moderation from admins, since for the most part a community mod is what users will be interacting with.

I wouldn't worry much about .world being your home instance. The only real downside is you can't post or comment on Beehaw, since they defederated from World due to a lack of moderation tools on their end.

.World is the largest instance, so if you wanted to help spread the load across the fediverse and prevent centralization, you could export all your subscriptions to a new account elsewhere.

If you go that route, I'd personally recommend looking for an instance that at least has Hexbear and Lemmygrad in their block list. Lemmy.cafe is a good choice for a smaller instance, while Sopuli.xyz is a solid medium sized one, both general instances. But if you'd like a more themed instance that appeals to you, by all means go for that instead. https://lemmyverse.net/ or the instance finder tool at https://join-lemmy.org/ are good places to find one. :)