Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Capitalism does not require us to “work or starve.”

It requires us to perform labor *for property owners* or *be starved by property owners.*

You have ancestors who lived before wage labor. They didn’t starve to death because they lacked jobs and wages.

You do not lack any of the faculties they possessed. You do not lack any of their abilities to sustain themselves by their own effort.

What you lack is *permission* from property owners.

I despair about how many talented people are using Substack when we know exactly where that whole mess is headed.

Here's a video (sorry for the quality) of 2 Capyloon devices sharing data thanks to IPFS:
- the laptop "uploads" the capybara image to its local ipfs node, and generates a QR Code with the ipfs:// url.
- the phone scans the QR Code to get the ipfs:// url, and loads it as any other web page.
- since both devices discovered each other over mDNS, no data left the local network!

https://capyloon.org/videos/capyloon-share-ipfs-qrcode.mp4

Hi. It would help me a lot if I could get a HEAP of responses to this poll. The goal is to get a decent enough sample so results are predictive of the wider user-base right now. I dislike asking for boosts but this is SCIENCE... or something. (Thanks.)

How do you use Mastodon MOST of the time?

On a phone, or other touch screen device?

OR

On a device with a keyboard like a laptop or desktop computer?

(If it's half and half choose the middle option.)

Critical Distance, a non-profit I volunteer for on the board of directors, needs help. We have been archiving and contextualising online games writing for 13 years. We are asking for help to allow us to continue operating, and perhaps even invest in building longer term resilience. I'd be very grateful for any help spreading the word: https://www.gofundme.com/f/critdistance

Update on the growth of #mastodon in the last months. After the big wave of new accounts on Nov 17th, the growth seems steady for the last week at around 50k new accounts/users per day. Only in the last couple of weeks, 1M new accounts were added. At this rhythm, #mastodon will get 1.5M accounts/users per month.

When people build things which are
of the people, by the people, for the people,
others come afterward seeking to coopt what was built to gain control for political forces, and/or profit.

There are a few ways to fight this, but only one sure way…
make things unscalable.
make them open, easily replicable for individuals and even small groups, but worthless for huge centralized projects.

example, Gopher.
small, fast, light, effective at organizing and presenting information.
nearly impossible to serve ads over, stream porn over, or gather effective metadata from.

if you want to prevent centralized control, build with technology that is useless to centralization.

Just as medieval nobles had no shortage of people telling them that they were pious despite their wars and mistresses, so does the modern CEO class have no shortage of sycophants assuring them that they are very intelligent.

The desired virtues may change, but the nature of power does not, not really.