I’m an anarchist who gets called a tankie on Reddit for using the word “imperialism” and I approve this meme

GOOD POST

Yeah, the fact that the user auth and permission models were intentionally left out of the W3C spec initially really ended up locking ActivityPub into particular dialects and patterns that are now proving problematic for scaling.

I’m not sure it’s 100% too late for a redesign, though. The committee is still active and the Fediverse could still theoretically grow by an order of magnitude or two. Does that seem likely right this minute? No, but sometimes that kind of vision is what an ecosystem needs.

Yes. No ads. Admins are comrades. Community is responsive to feedback. Mods don’t need to self censor to please capital. You could run your own server off a $30 raspberry pi in your house and it would federate with this community out of the box. This is not neoliberal “freedom”. This is self-determination and collective action. In other words, it’s what we would have all been doing if capital hadn’t commodified these behaviors.

Turns out there’s lots of stuff Reddit admins don’t like you saying

• Death to all slave owners
• Nazis get the pit
• Founding a social website posturing as a free speech space so that you can facilitate child pornography rings is bad and makes you deserving of painful death

You know, stuff like that. Stuff they have a personal stake in.