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@julian@activitypub.space also, one really cool effect of federated forums is that by you tagging with a different domain, I just discovered another pile of fediverse material at @activitypub.space. Awesome! I really like the way this naturally organizes if people limit the scope of their forums to cohesive topics. I'm curious also about regional boards / organizing by region rather than topical, like something to compete with nextdoor. I believe that hyperlocal is something that fediverse could be a big champion of.

Here's an ad that makes me absolutely bonkers. Well, even more than the rest of them. When the 400+ lb woman does zero exercise, makes no change in her diet and looks like a supermodel in 21 days by applying a 2" square patch to her fat. Please, Lord, make people stop this garbage.

@pastvulcan so i was thinking if multiple sites offer alternatives but they arent integrated well we could get deep with those communities, provide feedback and learn more about the limitations… and report back! I do have some faith that the more we know, the more I believe we will be able to effectively illustrate.

Almost done with week 1. I have been considering the space that this site can occupy; the sweet spot it can provide. Briefly, so far: adjacent to politics but not abstracted away by politics. Focused on real societal issues that contribute to enshittification. on the other hand not entirely consumed by the symptoms of specific enshittification instances. That is something that a place like https://www.reddit.com/r/enshittification already does very well, and with much feeling. coordination of actionable items, like fliers (education) , petitions (collective action), other campaigns. a promise to never enshittify this site and community we build. For those who know me from previous sites or irl, this isnt just talk. If we scale, we will scale in a distributed way that will be hard to enshittify. an interest in connecting all the communities addressing enshittification and strategies to combat it. We are all in this together. This site will always act like it without going too far down the rabbit hole, in terms of conduct, just be cool, dont crap on others, allow for revisions, this is a place to kick ideas around, and no idea is ever a perfect thing, but sometimes its good enough.

@skeet havent responded but have been mulling over your comment as I wrap up a first listen of enshittification. I think you nailed it. Thats exactly where we are. I appreciate the cautious optimism that Doctorow has for antitrust new legislation and I do not believe the US will be leading the way on this stuff at least not until the horses are well out of the gates and it becomes apparent that we cannot stop antitrust entirely. Then we will get involved and probably corrupt it until the next cycle of course.

Here we are, the beginning of the holidays, and I would like to say that I am more optimistic than I have been in a while. Yes, capitalist greed runs rampant in the United States. Yes, our politics are a self perpetuating duopoly. But my optimism isn’t about that. It’s about the passion of the resistance I see to it as I start to poke around. The well formed thoughts and layered solutions I see rebuking it. People see the problems for what they are, have names and definitions for the problems that accurately describe them. I believe that we can throw our hats into the ring and make a difference that is not a financial donation to one entity or another. Thats how we got here; our representation has failed us and has constructed a themed houses of mirrors for us to get lost in, and so be complacent. I believe we can find our way by participating directly and encouraging others to do so as well, by speaking directly to the points and not watering them down with binary labels like “conservative”, “liberal”, “democrat”, “republican”, “left” and “right”. Labels that frankly mean very little and engulf us in cults of personalities that torpedo our clarity of mind and meaningful discourse. Lets talk about what we want more of, what we want less of, and then make it happen! Thank you for those that have started this conversation with me here, and to those who’ve I’ve encountered thus far in well designed media and in my exploration on other platforms. This is just the beginning, and I have hope.

America came as close as it ever did to embodying its ideals as stated in the Preamble of the good old US Constitution: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity. And people who considered themselves above We The People didn't like that.

@Soteria I think people are neutral (unless they choose not to be) and products of hteir environment. If they are conditioned to not participate, they will be complacent with the status quo, which is what we have in majority.

I dont have smtp server set up yet and its not necessary. Just dismiss the modal