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So we should… praise them for their donation even though they know they are materially contributing to wealth inequality in their country?
Yes the rest of us are also part of a system of exploitation (and that’s bad and I hope you are all combating against it as best you can), but we’re much more beholden to it, seeing as how our actual survival requires full lifelong participation in that system.
If there’s anyone that could be considered “above capitalism” it’s the billionaires. They actually have some individual power to shift the rules of the game they know is crooked. Or at least not take take take take and still want praise for giving away a micron of a rounding error of their wealth.
They’re still around! Discourse, phpbb, etc make it super easy to set up and administer. You don’t even need coding knowledge. I’m part of a forum that’s been going since the early oughts myself. Old Ocremix forums diaspora.
Think of it like a bookclub. You’ve just got to find some folks and get cracking
All I need is enough people on these decentralised social media platforms to keep me from feeling like I’m missing out by not being on one of the monoliths, and I’ve already got that now.
I welcome all the new people, and am happy for them to stay and explore, but if the numbers just stayed around where they are now, well, that would be fine too.
It’s not like we’ve got to worry about pumping the numbers for a venture exit or IPO or anything. We can just chill out and enjoy.
My face when I’m trying to use tar and realise I don’t have my shell history on this machine
Look at this nerd sietch
Great I really wanted that.
I wonder how this will affect the right to be forgotten. It’s not like theyre going to un-train any models or remove any derivative content