Does the article link to a proposal from CUPW that includes some similar stuff? I really like the idea of postal banking for rural areas. And acting as an ISP.

Edit: rewrite as a question.

But if the only way to do it is to have ads or selling our data etc, then I don’t want that.

Nobody wants that. It’s a bunch of lil features:

• following users in Lemmy,

• allow mods flair users in a community (so subscribers/patrons can show off),

• Make it easier to see popular posts on Lemmy and Mastodon,

Stuff like that.

Fight the power!

Pretty much this. The best thing about him is that he isn’t Poilievre.

But Carney appears to be a relatively right-leaning Liberal. Shrinking the federal government is fine, I guess; cutting taxes for might be boutique tax cuts for the rich - I didn’t see specifics; his housing policy seems to rely heavily on the private sector, which is pretty similar to everyone else’s (and doesn’t seem great, tbh).

That seems so long ago.

We were already not always able to communicate and discuss certain topics as normal human beings, but now we probably won’t even see each other’s posts.

Yeah, I think this is a thing.

Generally, I think most people can come to an understanding through frank conversation (modulo racist whackos, etc). That rarely happens on social media, but each ideology having their own platform pushes the chance to zero.

That seems like a useful skill.

I have been terrified of saying “love you” at the end of a work call. It just seems to be at the top of conversational options when hanging up.

that’s the sweetest thing I’ve heard all day

Agreed, except you’re wrong about your baby. Mine were the good looking ones.

It’d be interesting to know what’s more effective: programs preventing harassment in general, or programs preventing harassment against specific groups.

I much prefer the general strategy. It doesn’t feel exclusionary, and it’s easier to justify the overall need.

Having said that, women face more violence.

But:

researchers found that abuse directed at women in politics is viewed as more severe than those aimed at men, even if the nature and frequency of abuse received is similar. The study also explains why this occurs, showing that attacks on women are more likely to be perceived as motivated by misogyny and a desire to exclude women from public office, compared to abuse directed at men. In contrast, attacks on women are less likely than those on men to be seen as driven by other factors, such as policy disagreements.

Why doesn’t Congress, the larger institution, simply eat the president?

Globe doesn’t have much else: https://archive.is/POGRZ

I really hope we get a motive and background for this one. Police have been tight lipped about previous mass violence threats/events.

I basically flipped a coin to choose between a couple of universities.

Most of my friendships come from people I met in uni or their friends. Most of my jobs have come from them.

My extended family lived in the town where I ended up. I learned a lot about how adults should behave from one of them, and stuck around to take care of another one of them.

If the coin had landed on the other side, I would have ended up in a lil university town, gotten a completely different friend group, and (probably) ended up in the US.

It’s not just ad-free, it’s actively anti-corporate, anti-advertising, even anti-monetization.

There are upvoted positive posts and comments about

1. the Switch 2 announcement (but not Nintendo’s legal policy),

2. the Framework advertising event last week,

3. Valve/Steam/SteamOS/Steamdeck/Gabe Newell in general,

4. Costco in general,

5. EVs in general (excluding Tesla and Cybertrucks 😂),

6. podcasts that solicit funding and carry advertising,

7. anime and anime adjacent products,

8. Lenovo’s laptops,

9. individuals selling stuff on Redbubble/Etsy/OnlyFans,

10. subscription razor blade delivery (not from Amazon),

11. and “voting with your wallet”.

It’d be cool if the platform made it easier for orgs to build and interact with a following here. Niches of users really like talking about them. That doesn’t mean ads, it means features that would benefit regular users as well.

maybe this place is just not for influencers - not like the corp platforms, anyway

The things people need to build a livelihood on a platform are quality of life features. In a lot of cases, I think it’s small stuff: being able to reward patrons with a tag on a specific community; automatically highlighting popular posts; making it easy to find a user’s monetization page; etc.

I think the fediverse will attract more and more people with its network effects, but probably never all of the people all of the time.

At the moment, Lemmy is an ad-free version of Reddit missing some community and notification features. There are good political reasons to be here, but that hasn’t driven a sustained increase in users.

So we won’t get critical mass for network effects by being a better Reddit.

One to make the platform self-sustaining (or grow) is to give creators a reason to use the platform, which will give people a reason to come and stay.

Absolutely - I wanted to list interactions between regular users and someone who makes money with a platform.

After a bunch of Twitter users (including journalists) bounced off Mastodon when Elon bought it, the fediverse needs to understand why, and think about what it means to be a viable platform.

And given the cost of housing at the moment, breaking even probably isn’t enough to lower housing costs.