#classwar — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #classwar, aggregated by home.social.
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just how true it this 😬
"The internet gave almost everyone the ability to publish. #SocialMedia gave almost anyone the possibility of reaching a mass audience. That democratisation of public debate is one of the great achievements of our age. But it has also transformed how authority is earned and challenged.
Everyone having a microphone is a democratic achievement. Everyone believing their microphone makes them an authority is a democratic vulnerability."
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australias-next-class-war-may-be-fought-over-reality #classwar
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just how true it this 😬
"The internet gave almost everyone the ability to publish. #SocialMedia gave almost anyone the possibility of reaching a mass audience. That democratisation of public debate is one of the great achievements of our age. But it has also transformed how authority is earned and challenged.
Everyone having a microphone is a democratic achievement. Everyone believing their microphone makes them an authority is a democratic vulnerability."
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australias-next-class-war-may-be-fought-over-reality #classwar
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just how true it this 😬
"The internet gave almost everyone the ability to publish. #SocialMedia gave almost anyone the possibility of reaching a mass audience. That democratisation of public debate is one of the great achievements of our age. But it has also transformed how authority is earned and challenged.
Everyone having a microphone is a democratic achievement. Everyone believing their microphone makes them an authority is a democratic vulnerability."
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australias-next-class-war-may-be-fought-over-reality #classwar
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just how true it this 😬
"The internet gave almost everyone the ability to publish. #SocialMedia gave almost anyone the possibility of reaching a mass audience. That democratisation of public debate is one of the great achievements of our age. But it has also transformed how authority is earned and challenged.
Everyone having a microphone is a democratic achievement. Everyone believing their microphone makes them an authority is a democratic vulnerability."
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australias-next-class-war-may-be-fought-over-reality #classwar
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just how true it this 😬
"The internet gave almost everyone the ability to publish. #SocialMedia gave almost anyone the possibility of reaching a mass audience. That democratisation of public debate is one of the great achievements of our age. But it has also transformed how authority is earned and challenged.
Everyone having a microphone is a democratic achievement. Everyone believing their microphone makes them an authority is a democratic vulnerability."
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australias-next-class-war-may-be-fought-over-reality #classwar
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Inside the #geekproblem, many things look realistic because they make sense within the bubble. Outside it, they can be very irrelevant.
My thought: #opensource / free software has real value, but as a path for social change and challenge, it has been devoured by capitalism.
That means social value keeps being reduced unless some good dose of #classwar is pushed back into the limp liberal thing it has become.
The #4opens is a VERY gentle way of doing that - if people take an interest and actually use it.
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Inside the #geekproblem, many things look realistic because they make sense within the bubble. Outside it, they can be very irrelevant.
My thought: #opensource / free software has real value, but as a path for social change and challenge, it has been devoured by capitalism.
That means social value keeps being reduced unless some good dose of #classwar is pushed back into the limp liberal thing it has become.
The #4opens is a VERY gentle way of doing that - if people take an interest and actually use it.
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Inside the #geekproblem, many things look realistic because they make sense within the bubble. Outside it, they can be very irrelevant.
My thought: #opensource / free software has real value, but as a path for social change and challenge, it has been devoured by capitalism.
That means social value keeps being reduced unless some good dose of #classwar is pushed back into the limp liberal thing it has become.
The #4opens is a VERY gentle way of doing that - if people take an interest and actually use it.
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Inside the #geekproblem, many things look realistic because they make sense within the bubble. Outside it, they can be very irrelevant.
My thought: #opensource / free software has real value, but as a path for social change and challenge, it has been devoured by capitalism.
That means social value keeps being reduced unless some good dose of #classwar is pushed back into the limp liberal thing it has become.
The #4opens is a VERY gentle way of doing that - if people take an interest and actually use it.
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Inside the #geekproblem, many things look realistic because they make sense within the bubble. Outside it, they can be very irrelevant.
My thought: #opensource / free software has real value, but as a path for social change and challenge, it has been devoured by capitalism.
That means social value keeps being reduced unless some good dose of #classwar is pushed back into the limp liberal thing it has become.
The #4opens is a VERY gentle way of doing that - if people take an interest and actually use it.
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The answer to the #dotcons isn’t everyone becoming a sysadmin
“Just self-host it” is blinded techie advice that ignores reality, most people don't want to spend their lives patching servers, managing certificates and worrying about whether they accidentally opened a security hole. But the alternative doesn't have to be handing everything to a commercial platform. There is a third path: community self-hosting. And this is actually how much of the #Fediverse has worked for the last decade. A local group, cooperative, union, neighbourhood or affinity […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-answer-to-the-dotcons-isnt-everyone-becoming-a-sysadmin/
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The answer to the #dotcons isn’t everyone becoming a sysadmin
“Just self-host it” is blinded techie advice that ignores reality, most people don't want to spend their lives patching servers, managing certificates and worrying about whether they accidentally opened a security hole. But the alternative doesn't have to be handing everything to a commercial platform. There is a third path: community self-hosting. And this is actually how much of the #Fediverse has worked for the last decade. A local group, cooperative, union, neighbourhood or affinity […]https://hamishcampbell.com/the-answer-to-the-dotcons-isnt-everyone-becoming-a-sysadmin/