@altlife@me.dm Last night I was at a talk by a former leader of Italy's main center-left party. He expressed sentiments that I think are related to what you say. He talked about the fact that "the left" identifies with ideas and policies, mostly stemming from "for me to have a better life, people around me should have a better life", while the "the right" identifies with leaders and brands. Sadly, with how politics is communicated to people, through social media, but many news outlets and journalists are also "to blame", it favors the second type: it's much easier to show a fascist shouting a slogan, than someone discussing an issue and how to tackle it.
@be@floss.social@glyph@mastodon.social I'm only partially joking when I'm saying this, but the only solution may be to have services based in Antarctica. Or to finally realize that multinational corporations need to be regulated internationally if we want to maintain the concept of nation state.
@futurebird@sauropods.win@aurochs@todon.eu I like that. I think people should then also be able to opt-in to a "thing" where they also sporadically get posts that aren't in any of their chosen feeds, but are "related", for example by virtue of being in the feeds of the some of the people they follow, to give the sense of serendipitous discovery of new stuff. Maybe, a somehow tunable "serendipity factor" that widens the concept "related". I think a tab like tab would usually be more useful/interesting than the local/global timelines.
@futurebird@sauropods.win@Phosphenes@mastodon.social@aurochs@todon.eu Honestly, I love the "no ads" thing, but not everyone I know agrees. Sure, they complain about ads, but it's mostly where they interrupt what they are doing. Often, they don't mind, or even enjoy, well done ads that fit with the flow of what they are doing. The ad industry thought that making people numb by forcing more ads at us from everywhere all the time was the solution, but in truth well made well placed ads turn out to be seamless, and people don't mind them.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io the thing is, we should turn things around. If I wipe a customer's database, it's really my boss' fault for not checking every line of code I type before it's run in prod.
@whitequark@mastodon.social ok, but those guys should perhaps be disqualified from holding voting rights and other ways to influence society, because they are wildly disconnected from the real world, I think. It may be a bit much, and definitely temporary, but damn.
@dansup@mastodon.social out of curiosity, what was the rationale with not going open source to begin with? Was it to have the first "public" version be already stable and feature-rich? I could see that also avoids people forking off a dozen versions each prioritizing a specific desiderata while you get to a sizeable core of functionality.
You can often find me in a fantastic valley ready to talk about rpgs, complain about work, cook an excess of calories and have a drink. (none of this is either metaphor or euphemism).Also @bovaz@mastodon.online, but I'm trying to move to using prevalently this.