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   Three Chords and Forsooth! (guyjantic@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 22:24:36 JST Three Chords and Forsooth!

   • Cory Doctorow

   "Smart leftism pays attention to these differences [in flavors of capitalism], because they represent the potential fault lines in capitalism's coalition..."

   "I'm saying that it's good praxis to understand these divisions in capitalism, because then we can exploit those differences to make real, material gains for human thriving and worker rights. Lumping all for-profit businesses together as identical and irredeemable is bad tactics."

   @pluralistic politely but firmly calling the purity-testing, gatekeeping leftists on the carpet and it's a discussion that is always timely. I am here for it.

   https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/

   #doctorow #enshittification #leftism #progressive #liberal #corporate #socialmedia

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     Three Chords and Forsooth! (guyjantic@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 00:43:37 JST Three Chords and Forsooth!

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Jorge Candeias
     • Christine Lemmer-Webber

     @jorgecandeias @pluralistic @cwebber I clearly missed @cwebber's writing; I have enjoyed reading her essays/threads, though I don't always understand the details, not being a coder or true tech person.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 00:43:37 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Jorge Candeias

     @guyjantic @jorgecandeias @pluralistic Here's the blogposts if you want them:

     https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
     https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/

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     Jorge Candeias (jorgecandeias@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 00:43:38 JST Jorge Candeias

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Christine Lemmer-Webber

     @guyjantic @pluralistic the problem with that line of thought, despite being totally fine in theory, is that in practice the very architecture of the at protocol is such that only someone with deep, deep pockets will ever be able to build an at service truly independent from bluesky's infrastructure.

     Edit: @cwebber wrote extensively and very technically about that.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 02:23:05 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

     in reply to

     • Cory Doctorow
     • Jorge Candeias
     • jeremiah
     • Dr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber

     @guyjantic @pluralistic @jeremiah @jorgecandeias Thank you but just note note I'm not Dr. Lemmer-Webber but my wife @mlemweb is :)

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 02:31:02 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

     in reply to

     • Cory Doctorow
     • Jorge Candeias
     • jeremiah
     • Dr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber

     @guyjantic @pluralistic @jeremiah @jorgecandeias @mlemweb Yup, that's my name :)

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     Three Chords and Forsooth! (guyjantic@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 02:31:03 JST Three Chords and Forsooth!

     in reply to

     • Cory Doctorow
     • Jorge Candeias
     • jeremiah
     • Christine Lemmer-Webber
     • Dr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber

     @cwebber @pluralistic @jeremiah @jorgecandeias @mlemweb Oops! Sorry. Um... just refer to you by your handle? As Christine Lemmer-Webber?

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     Dr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber (mlemweb@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 02:33:19 JST Dr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber

     in reply to

     • Cory Doctorow
     • Jorge Candeias
     • jeremiah
     • Christine Lemmer-Webber

     @cwebber @guyjantic @pluralistic @jeremiah @jorgecandeias

     I mean, since @cwebber has been unofficially dubbed "The Queen of the Fediverse" you could go with "Her Majesty" ... but other than that her name works just fine ;)