There was the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest. It’s not a whole country going anarchist and no doubt the limited amount of people with the nessisary skill sets to have a functioning society (judging from the food garden they set up) held back the viability of the protest, but in general the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest was widly seen as a wild failure.

It’s an interesting thing to look up on, and I’d definitely recommend anyone who is serious about anarchism to study it for the potential pit falls of an anarchist society that they would need to work out first.

Tech companies as soon as they are publicly traded:

In other news, water is wet.

Being open source doesn’t stop the inherent flaws of the Karma system or the increasing toxicity that correlates with platform population.

It’s really cool that Lemmy is FOSS, don’t get me wrong, but that’s kinda irrelevant to the issues presented.

This is really the terminal issue with Reddit alternatives. They are just Reddit minus the most recent controversy as of foundation. Reddit is overall just a popular content aggregation website with poorly design discussion features.

Upvotes and down votes, while intended to help users weed out bad arguments and spam, only achive in promoting sophistry and tribalism. What ends up getting upvoted is what “wins” the argument, while good arguments that come from unpopular viewpoints get downvoted.

And with that comes all the toxic elements from old Reddit ruat we all hope just won’t be a part of our replacements. Reddit’s format works at a smaller scale, where users are typically more enthusiastic and therefor better informed, but as the sites get larger you’ll notice they typical hyper-snarky “owned with facts and logic” attitude take hold of a community as more people with a weaker investment jump on the bandwagon and upvote everything that makes them feel smart.

Eventually, the site becomes just like Reddit, but for a smaller and more insulated community, and users begin to question why they’re here instead of Reddit which has the established user base that can reliably cover more topics you are interested in.

We have not learnt from history, and we are doomed to repeat it. Maybe it’ll be different in the future.

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I’ve been using Nobara for gaming a while now, and it’s certainly a good choice from by experience. It’s a modified Fedora distro that’s designed for gaming.

Yeah, capitalism and communism have both had pretty bad implementations historically.

Imo the issue is down the us humans. For these systems to work correctly we need to act in good faith, but we are inherently corruptable.

These systems are like beasts that need to be tamed to work properly, but alot of the time the people in charge like to just throw their hands up and go “that’s just how it works!” and not really do anything to fix the issues just because they’re comfortable in the now.

We saw it in how Stalen corrupted Marx’s ideals and ran the Russian State into the ground, and we see it with how western governments have let themselves be corrupted by the influence of big corporate interests.

What’s the future under the nordic compromise?

Sadly it seems to aways happen to sites that get too big.

If you’re so compelled to, but do consider any helpful posts your account might have.

Reddit might be a sinking ship, but in this age of the Internet it still one of the most reliable ways to Google a solution to your problems.

I’m part of the F-Zero Twitter community and the most action it gets is from bots that somehow break into the invite only community. (Thanks Elon)

It’s a cool idea but suffers from the same kind of insulation of discord, which end up running counter to the openness twitter got popular for.

It comes down to preference in the end.

I’m just the kinda guy who likes having everything spread out. I have two monitors at my desk, great for anything that benefits from having a reference nearby, such as having a wiki open for a game or splitting two code windows on one monitor and having the web page up on the other.