Firstly: commerzialization will come eventually anyways
And it's going to make the fediverse way worse.
Secondly: what has all of that to do with democracy? I would hope that the Fediverse thrives to become a democratic place.
I'm not sure I understand your idea of democracy. Isn't the fediverse "democratic" already? Everyone is free to federate and defederate with anyone.
Also, the Fediverse is currently still rather small. If it should benefit humanity as a whole, you will not be able to avoid corporations completely.
Corporations are not humans. They use us and see us as nothing more than numbers. They don't give a shit about people or humanity as a whole.
I'll make sure to block every corp I'm aware of. You're still free to do otherwise, of course. Isn't that democracy for you?
Wow, that's great. Only the thing that our society is based on for last decades with a tradition of hundreds of years. Great, down the toilet with it! Hope you got some idea with what to replace it ...
You have idealised liberalism. It only has brought crisis after crisis, provoked unnecessary wars, given birth to monstrous cynical corporations, etc.
I'm not saying democracy is broken, just liberalism and capitalism.
I don't want to save the liberal democracy, thanks.
Actually, I'd say the fediverse nature is pretty much contrary to liberal values, at least in the state it exists right now with most instances being maintained by volunteers and donations, not corporations (let's obviate Threads for the moment because there's no full federation)
I'd say that Threads or the former Twitter allign far better with the values of liberalism, being for-profit private companies.
liberalism aligns with capitalism. most progressives are anticapitalist.
sure, liberals are normally progressives too, the counterpart of the moderates and the conservatives which are all capitalists, but they are usually perceived as not real progressives by the socialists, etc.
this is plain stupid. sodium is far far more common in the earth than lithium. if you're worried about sodium not being renewable, then by that logic you should stop using lithium batteries right now.
you need Google to tell you what safe and what's not? have you ever used a desktop operating system where you usually install programs from different sources?
that's not what the top comment was talking about. this is replacing the whole battery, not cells within the battery. it doesn't help with reparability at all.
I'm just saying that some guy commenting on a blog is not a good reason not to try.
The good reason not to try is that bullet trains have proved working perfectly in other parts of the world. Sure, they would be slower than an hypothetical hyperloop but they are a working technology that would help alleviate the transportation problem.
Why invest in a project that might lead nowhere?
I'm not anti experimentation, by any means. It's just that as the article says, the hyperloop was proposed when a bullet train was being discussed by local politicians.
this is bullshit. terraforming Mars or any other place in the solar system is going to cost orders of magnitudes more than solving earth problems. and no, we're not even close to interstellar travel
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