thepaperpilot

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[–] thepaperpilot 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not sure I understand how this isn't already possible. Create an account on some federated platform, such as your own self hosted one, and people from any federated platform can now follow you. Isn't that already POSSE?

[–] thepaperpilot 2 points 1 year ago

I mean hey, by all means if you think a community is too hive mind-y or echo chamber-y then by all means don't join. That's the beauty of small highly customized communities - it can be moderated in a way all the members agree with, and anyone who doesn't like it can find or found a different one.

I don't know what exactly you're imagining such a community would disallow, but I feel like whatever it is, I'd agree with it being disallowed. Disagreeing with someone is typically fine in most communities I've seen, it's just hate speech or any -ism or -phobes that aren't. And that's fine.

[–] thepaperpilot 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I totally agree. I'm optimistic about technology once we escape capitalism. Under socialism automation and technology make everyone's lives easier. e.g. the classic example of a technology that allows workers to be 2x more productive would mean the workers all keep their jobs and pay, but work half as much under socialism, but under capitalism half lose their job and the rest work just as much for the same pay.

That said, things like sustainability, social responsibility, and the other pieces of the "demoralization campaign" should absolutely be considered. They're important.

[–] thepaperpilot 10 points 1 year ago

pixelfed seems to be getting some really nice improvements at an incredible rate. Props to those devs!

[–] thepaperpilot 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you picture the political compass, where the y axis is how how democratic the society is(where the top is tyranny and the bottom is anarchy) and the x axis is how socialized it is (where the left is communism and the right is capitalism), OP claimed that ancap (the bottom right quadrant) doesn't exist, and that those who claim to be ancap tend to be authoritarian right instead. You argued that democracy could exist in a socialist (leftist) society. You are not disagreeing with OP, because what you described is not a capitalist (right leaning) society.

[–] thepaperpilot 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I probably should've clarified its the last few that I felt were relevant to this post. I understand it sucks when you feel like anything you say may get you banned due to someone else's interpretations, but in practice I don't think it really becomes an issue.

Perhaps be a bit more careful when first joining a community as you learn how the community tends to act and behave, and where the lines tend to be drawn, but then after that you should have a general sense of what's allowed, and if you do go over the line the mods are much more likely to just give a warning instead of a ban if you're a regular.

[–] thepaperpilot 20 points 1 year ago (20 children)

A ttrpg called .dungeon got a remaster recently and I keep coming back to one of the screenshots on the store page, because I'm such a big fan of the rules for community moderation it enumerated:

[–] thepaperpilot 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I wonder how memes about WinRAR still get made. Besides everyone mentioning 7zip is better in every thread, windows explorer has been able to unzip things for ages now. Who is still using WinRAR?

[–] thepaperpilot 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a pretty glowing review! Particularly liked the part about tscn format being git compatible. Easily one of my biggest frustrations with unity was merging scenes

[–] thepaperpilot 7 points 1 year ago

I think its just because it's a throwing knife, so it "flies"

[–] thepaperpilot 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think a decentralized anarchistic society would be wonderful, but holy shit if we don't ditch capitalism along the way I'll probably kill myself. I couldn't stand an ancap society

[–] thepaperpilot 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think this article makes reasonable sense. Also that quote from Spez is so disheartening. Glad I'm not on reddit anymore

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