I can't stop thinking about how one of the most desintegrating aspects of capitalist hegemony is how non-commodified alternatives to social practices/services (for example, internet forums) are always going to be decentralised, to the point where decentralisation itself is taken to be a good thing and communities build their collective identity around those alternatives. I believe that if those alternatives were possible in a centralised manner they'd be much better, specially for the non-"power users".

Fediverse is just a recent example of this, but informatics in specific (due to the global reach of the internet and neglible replication cost for software) is rife with the most extreme examples of this. Dozens of Linux distributions against Windows, self-hosted search engines against Google, the text editor wars itself that sadly resolved into VSCode dominance some decades later.

And when something becomes the "hegemon" of the alternatives, like Ubuntu or Firefox, the economic logic of society dictates that they either get swollen (redhat) or have to commodify themselves, and the cycle repeats itself.

In capitalism the only passive consolidating force is capital, and so everything else must be diffuse and divided.

I could try to turn this into a proper thesis but even in that I'd run against the current issue that search engines don't work anymore and it's much harder to intentionally browse the critical sections of the internet and I don't have the time and energy for that. I'm just tired of having to wade through a dozen possibly zombie projects every time I'm looking for an alternative to shit like Trello as if the concept of "online shared Kanban board" needs that much variety.

So I guess I'll just leave this here as a pseudotweet. The current state of the internet is depressing, but at least I'm glad I found lemmygrad.

men r/locallama the one which is good for checking ai progress. is overrun by shitlibs

all because chinese model which is free is the one of the best free model right now

happy new year everyone

Happy new year.

Celebrated in Belgium for a change. In The Netherlands it's always a war zone with fireworks the entire day. Remember a year in which guys in my street blew up a playground and shattered every window in a hundred meters radius. Yesterday a kid even died.

In Antwerp it was 1 show at Midnight. That was it. Maybe a single explosion somewhere far away once an hour. The difference for a group of Dutch people was wild lol.

Happy New Week, may your decades be short and your histories neverending.

Happy New Year ya dirty tankies

~~Happy New Year to my favourite federated instance! We are aware of the Hexbear outage and will notify here when we are back up. If the recent FOIA request on hexbear and the bags of flour in Gaza with hexbear on them caused an alphabet agency or mossad to take down hexbear it was an honour posting with you~~

Hexbear is back

Happy new year everyone!

I finally have a working computer. Now I can return to making high-quality articles on modern history.

Who is the cutie to the right of Fidel in the photo?! 😍

Today is the time for The Netherlands' annual blow yourself up party

Visiting a retirement home and a staff member and some elderly people randomly started singing the French national anthem.

New user here (I think some might recognise the name), hope you all enjoy new years eve and the new year, if you celebrate it.

I'm not the biggest fan of Hexbear lately, and it's no one person or anyone specific, but I feel bad because I find that it's difficult to get sources or find sources of information to post here that isn't already shared or has a niche role filled by someone else that's already here. Even though I've had a rough experience or two on here, I've found that the company here is much preferable in comparison to the non-stop never-ending drama on Hexbear as of recent. It really feels like Leftbook in there recently.

Regardless, I'll probably keep posting my occasional meme and browsing the news thread where I'll have to hear some slam out blazing takes of how China is failing global socialism from their D.I.Y raccoon sanctuary that is actual true leftism.

I've recently been writing something myself on a perspective of the Catholic Church in America while also doing some writing and map-making for a fallout tabletop I'm doing for a big group. Resources I may not know of that some of you may have tucked in your back pocket would be neat.

Other than that, I hope you are all doing well and a happy new years eve for all of you!

Himalayas (taken by me).

I'm going to Los Angeles and Ojai, California.

Where should I stop by, in general?

(sorry if I asked this question)

There's Been a lot of Salafist Shit On my 𝕏 FYP Since Assad Was Ousted, So annoying Man Seeing these People here celebrating Assad's Downfall, while Israel and Turkey is Gobbling Syria Up RN

Hasta la victoria siempre!

the only good orange site comment

one guy is not having it lmfao.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42556337

you can click context to see what the context is