with the mainstream able to obtain timeshares to Amazon's massive datacenters, we become easily deluded into mistaking this access for a universal utility
the unassuming term "vendor lock-in" obscures the nature of the relevant power relations, & who owns the means of production
"According to Hootsuite, the number of Global Internet users has already reached almost 4.66 billion, or about 53% of the global population."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage
IMHO means global democracy over the internet is already tractable and defensible.
@flancian Wait until Starlink is ready! (tbf, this one could go either way…)
@flancian please share one. Just one! 😁🙃
It's nice to see Mastodon is really able to replicate all of Twitter's "features".
https://explosion.party/objects/a7783a74-62c0-47e2-9d69-8ceceda48a56
Oh no no no how did I get here?!?
@amir 🙏 my condolences
@iamnoah no. It's just you. I, for example, hold a set of beliefs that is internally consistent and also complete. That's why I cannot do basic arithmetic. 😕
@flancian will post once it's actually online. 😂
@flancian get my blog off the ground!! 😄
@amir Well I'm happy to explore this together with you. Seems to be question bigger than a toot though.
I should perhaps reread Francis Fukuyama's book on Identity...
@amir May I add overall reason?
The root of all evil, I claim, isn't that people are stupid (they're not). Rather, it's the need for too tight an identity in a world that is decreasingly willing to provide one.
scaling up communication channels without scaling up empathy & human decency = our current state