Notices by Katanova, the Lucent Nomad (katanova@social.coop), page 2

@J12t
The simple answer is that it's up to individual instance operators, and from there, it's up to other instance operators to decide whether to federate with instances that host businesses.

Even further, this can be a choice of whether to support/platform businesses depending on whether they're operated ethically.

It used to be that a businesses' reputation was based on its community connections.
@tchambers

@AnarchoNinaWrites
No, i'm not saying *I* think it would be worse if they didn't do that, i'm saying that *they* think it would be worse.

@AnarchoNinaWrites
Part of building a better world is figuring out how to work with other people to do it.

The alternative is being mad forever that the world refuses to change.

Or enforcing your will on the world to make them see that you're right.

So which is the goal?

@foolishowl I'm gonna guess that the person that @calcifer is talking about doesn't know enough about networking to actually have any kind of rational root for *why* they believe that hosting a voice chat is illegal, beyond a vague anxiety about it being a service that THEIR KIDS use.

I think that at the root of it, it's just the phrase "MY KIDS" circling in their heads over and over.

@AnarchoNinaWrites It's easy to make the mistake of concluding that our enemies are at once too strong and too weak.

They're not stupid; they're greedy selfish assholes, but they're not stupid.

There's a motivation to their actions beyond "won't face consequences for it"

@AnarchoNinaWrites My bet is that they think that worse things will happen if they *don't* do those things.

@maddiefuzz also, frisbees, balsa wood, or a wrench you've thrown into the air.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mffup5S3XHw

@tillshadeisgone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpYeekQkAdc @pearlbear

@pearlbear Some people live in one world, some people live in a different world.

People can only see how other people's actions affect their own world. People can rarely see how their own actions affect other people's worlds.

This is a fairly consistent problem among inter-community relations.

@aral I haven't even read it, and I don't know who wrote it, but I already know that it's another rich asshole who thinks they're a god.

@thegibson
*fade in*
Katanova looks down at his notebook. The letters on the page blur together. As he tries to focus, the words float off the page and form dozens of instances of the word "friday"

He pulls out his phone, and looks at the screen. Instead of a time on the lock screen, it says only FRIDAY

Katanova sighs. The Gibson's spell had executed flawlessly.

Indeed, it seems for the time being, he could read only "friday"

@ophiocephalic Can we just call this a coup and move on?

A small group of influential people are making moves to sieze power, who refuse to acknowledge any criticism as valid, and who threaten accusations of wrongthink to anyone who doesn't accept their assertions of what is Actually Social Justice.