Bitcoin will help with taking away the capitalist money printer privilege.
It wont just over night change the difference between poor and rich - this will require further steps, such as mutual aid and worker cooperatives and so on, but at least, anything that is successful cant just be outspent by capitalists printing money and make a cheaper copy cat where everyone is paid way more.
Moderating impersonation is also genuinely hard in general - there is an undefined gray area in parody as a rhetorical form between true impersonation and impersonation for the sake of comedy. I mean that's what Hustler v Falwell was all about. Impersonating a brand to skim credit cards or whatever is very different than impersonating a brand to spoof their heinous business practices, but in both cases you need someone to at least momentarily believe it is real in order for it to work.
Not being able to moderate with the care needed to parse harmful impersonation from parody is exactly one of the reasons why we need moderation systems that can be smaller than global moderation, that can be responsive to individual problems and people. On fedi they coulda messaged me and we could have had a conversation about making the parody more obvious, but you can't do that when you're moderating 20 million accounts.
Edit: im not saying parody itself is divinely important, just that this is one example of how local moderation matters generally
@jonny sorry, to rephrase — if you *did* use self-hosted PDS, did:web instead of did:plc, what is the *mechanism* of this moderation action? if you're hosting on their PDS with their auth and everything then decentralization doesn't really apply
@PeterCxy Part of me wants to tag Linus but I have no involvement in Linux apart from using it on my laptop (Tumbleweed), phone (GrapheneOS), and server that isn't set up set (Raspberry Pi OS) so I'm not sure if I should get involved.
@Doug_Bostrom I mean this presumes that how capitalism works is the making and selling of products to voluntary buyers, but that's no longer how it does work. Capitalists own our govts and have reshaped our society in such a way as to make supplying them with wealth largely involuntary. Public funds subsidize capitalist activity, whole cities are built to preclude the possibility of opting out of cars, you can't chose not to fund the military, or oil companies, or internet conglomerates anymore.
@eemmaa@girlboss.gaslight.love It's more symbological in art as marking divinity i can't remember where it comes from, but it's more common in modern raja ravi verma depictions; krishna is actually known to have dark olive skin (sanvala) and krishna (krsna) in sanskrit means black
@sj_zero@amerika You should start a blog IMO. It might attract smarter people who are less likely to throw insults and more likely to engage with your ideas. Or you could join LessWrong. Or both
@SocketSecurity I wish the narrative were less one-sided: Who evaluates the efficiency of managers and investors and how much money they get? Who evaluates *why* people are quiet-quitting? Happy employees usually don’t.