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I am once again asking Linux developers to make sure that basic functionality like "printing multiple copies of a document" actually works

@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev I'm not convinced that it actually does any of that, honestly. Licensing of community projects is widely disregarded by corporations, developers don't actually have the money to sue anyway, and I've seen no better success rate on legal threats than on simple (non-legally-backed) requests not to do something.

Copyright is fundamentally stacked in favour of corporate interests, and corporations know that. I don't think there's anything worth preserving here.

Christian fascism is on the rise and liberals (and the academics that should've known better) are doing nothing to stop it. In fact, they largely refuse to even see what is happening. They are more interested in appeasement and keeping the system running smoothly, because what would be necessary to stop the rise of fascism is a destruction of the order that created it.

salon.com/2022/06/28/christian

#antifascism #anarchism

cohost-adjacent, FOSS 

The whole situation with cohost is IMO also an indictment of the broader FOSS community, which has clearly failed at effectively communicating to the general public *why* open systems matter (eg. possibility to correct governance issues), instead just presenting "well, it's open" as if that in and of itself is something people are expected to care about, without any understanding of how that materially improves their circumstances

@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev What's the story with that instance anyway?

@maya I unfortunately can't seem to find it anymore, but it was pretty widely retweeted back during the big Musk Migration

nl pol, police violence 

@Bosbesje@mastodon.nl Dat mogen ze zelf goegelen ;)

pol 

@sofia@chaos.social @schratze To clarify: when I mention capitalism, it is because that is the current dominant ideology according to which society is structured almost everywhere. It's not so much a dichotomy as a comparison between "how things are now" and "how things could be", arguing that the latter is strictly better at dealing with this point.

I'm certainly open to other options than those two; in fact, I am *not* actually a communist myself.

As for 'structured discussion' - voice chat certainly wouldn't be that for me :) I find text to be far, far easier to maintain a structure in.

@carcinopithecus @maya My experience (from an outsider perspective) is also that begposts get *more* reach here, not less, same as all other posts.

I think the original claim is based on the assumption that reach scales linearly with how 'universally connected' the social graph is, which just isn't true in practice.

why cohost is problematic (long) :boosts_ok_gay: 

@max Right. This is actually one reason why I'm skeptical of activist projects that are incorporated in the US in general - "non-profit" generally means a lot more in other countries, including some sort of legal obligation to act in line with the defined mission statement and/or public interest. That's really the bare minimum protection-from-corruption you'd need when incorporating into a hierarchical form.

(When I say "non-profit", that is also what I am referring to, not to the typical US incorporation forms or tax status)

@naln1 @qch3n@chaos.social @schratze @wolfie It looks purple to me on my monitor in sRGB mode (with pretty high accuracy) too, though... I don't think it's just the monitor that's a factor here :)

@maya I'm assuming that this is referring to eg. the Twitter thread about "Mastodon is bad, actually, because some people are dependent for their income on begposts or commission posts and those can't get enough reach on Mastodon" (which I still heavily question whether it's actually true)

@schratze Yeah it's basically just an integration problem, kwallet having no way to wire into the OS auth system and verify that you're supposed to be able to access it that way

@schratze @owl @Flisk@cybre.space I happen to know that it's *supposed* to be possible, I'm guessing that someone was conflating "you shouldn't do auto-login, it's insecure [in my threat model]" with "you CAN'T do auto-login", see that sort of thing happen a lot in technical communities...

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