In a communist society, say Soviet Russia, were the goods for a train really exchanged?
Like yeah, the ore comes from the mine, gets smelted, coked, forged, brought to another factory for machining, another factory for assembly.
So does it fulfill the definition requiring exchange of goods? I argue not, The goods were transported, but the ownership remained with the government.
Honest question, why?
The material safety data sheet really doesn’t indicate toxicity. It’s not a carcinogen or mutagen (even in California)
The marketing material on their website shows a cast iron pan
And there were a not trivial number of bots.
I bet money there are farms of fake accounts, waiting for the right day when the fediverse is mainstream
100% agree, feels like what Reddit was before/during the digg migration. And I love it.
Even if Reddit never dies and there’s no “great migration”, I’m happier here.
It does make me sad how much internet history we’re losing. Lot of smaller niche subs are still very established on Reddit and probably wouldn’t survive moving (yet).
This was how Reddit was in the old days. Small knit communities.
I honestly hope that it stays smaller. We don’t need everyone and their cousin here.
We have a unique opportunity. Hitching ourselves to the same corporate social media we’re trying to avoid is counterproductive.
We don’t need everyone and their cousin to be federated. There’s plenty of other social media if you want that experience.
And Reddit was just screenshots of Twitter/insta/FB
Start posting the content you want to see. That’s the magic of the new beginning.
If they ask their best engineers to do something evil, most of them will quit. Why work for an evil corp when you can work almost anywhere you want?
Same reason Microsoft engineers stuck around despite antitrust, anticompetitive behaviors, EEE attacks. Same reason people are still working at any evil company.
Also, I’m sure a large portion of their engineers are on a work visa, so they really can’t just up and leave.
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