lol. i watched way too much star trek when i was a kid. i would consider myself as someone who dislikes capitalism. but that’s my private thing. i like having money available to buy food, eat nice noodles or go on vacation every now and then. but i wouldn’t be sad if that somehow worked without the concept of money or some of the big companies.

i like this platform. i’m fine, thanks for asking.

I’m not a hardcore capitalist. Also i can’t watch all the ads the corporations would like to feed me every day. So i’m fine with using an adblocker. Don’t give stuff out for free on the internet if you don’t like this. But since you ask: I really don’t like that strategy to commercialize everything, to finance everything by selling ads and user data…

The CO2 comes in returnable metal bottles which get refilled after you return them. There’s almost nothing disposable at play. If you buy the recent and more expensive models, you even get glass bottles, so less plastic, too.

Yes. And i’m always stunned by how many people buy loads of bottled water at the Getränkemarkt. Just drink it from the tap or get one of those machines that make sparkling water if you like that?! There is no chlorine in ordinary german water and it tastes just fine.

These are all cosequences of a federated approach.

Also we absolutely need moderation tools in the internet. There are way too many jerks out there. Fortunately people like to stick together with like-minded people and form groups. Especially after they’ve been shouted at, banned, etc. the jerks will find their own instance and we can cut contact to all jerks at once.

I like defederation for that. However, it is the deliberate act of destroying the one thing you’ve invented the fediverse to do: to ‘federate’ with other instances. If you do that too often, you kill the idea and the spirit of the fediverse. Probably followed by killing your platform, community and the mood of everyone involved.

We need nice people. Good people pushing the buttons in the backend. Diversity. And a healty way to communicate and moderate.

One thing is: If i run an instance of something like lemmy: It’s my decision what to do with it. I bought the server. I pay the electricity and internet bill. I face the consequences and get nasty mail by the police if someone does something illegal with it. And maybe i invited my friends to join. It’s the same like inviting them to my barbecue party. I don’t want them to be shouted at by some right-wing nuts, there.

There is one simple consequence that is important to know for the user: Chose the right instance for you! Diversity is a great thing. And we all know it’s too difficult for a new user to also know which instance to join. But it’s absolutely necessary to put some effort in. You need an instance that federates with like-minded people and which owners are aligned to your own morale and ethics. You can’t join something else and the complain. That way, you’ll probably be lost for the fediverse, after too many negative impressions.

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I’m not sure they are. I bet lots of them use Linux servers, Solr, several open source databases and so on. I think it’s mostly the small and medium companies who are afraid of missing support and stuff.

The big companies just don’t like selling open source to their customers. Or getting them too close to the concept of it.

Don’t start with the most complicated distro and then fail.

nice. +1

Just ask someone from there on day one. They can obviously tell and i think this is the best strategy. I bet it’s safe like in most parts of middle and northern europe.

Sure. I’m always kinda uncertain why people ask for libre software and then not want it for the same things i like about it. If you want something plug and play and decentralization isn’t important to you: Maybe you don’t need an alternative and Discord is the right thing for you. Otherwise it’s not the software (architecture), you just want to go to an existing instance and let someone else do the self-hosting for you.

Fast growth is always messy. Time will tell. Other than that we of couse need to do the right things now and steer into a healthy direction. But don’t expect this to happen without major hiccups. It’ll settle down eventually.

fediverse but not selfhosted? i’m not sure. that might almost be opposing requirements.

… writing this on a platform that is probably completely unavailable in some of the mentioned countries.

edit: seems lemmy is accessible frim china?!

idk. maybe there is a technical solution for spam? i’ve been annoyed about the amount of spam comments on peertube. maybe there is a solution that’d work for several federated platforms.

thanks. will have a look at this.

louis rossman made a video a few days ago on why/if privacy matters. talking about smartphones: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BQKDL9VUzfs

but the argument ‘normal people don’t need privacy’ is very old/common and has been debunked many times.

Classified advertising aka ebay / craigslist

problem is, most platforms are more open-core than proper open source. i’d like to know which platforms won’t try to push me into buying premium plugins and yet offer decent functionality.

yes. however, you can still log in and then it won’t do this.