I’m part of the incremental community and also anarchism and socialism
Well, the network effect just explains why it’s hard for certain industries to have new competitors introduced. Enshittification takes advantage of the network effect, sure (Happy customers means leaving money on the table, after all), but it’s a distinct process
I mean, he’s certainly not joining a vanguard anytime soon but he’s certainly influential through orgs like the EFF and using that to fight things like the DMCA. I read pluralistic and I like how he’s been making points like that the US forced other nations to adopt DMCA -like laws under threat of tariffs, and how those tariffs are happening anyways now so may as well lift the laws. And he’s pointed stuff out like how jobs are starting to make people babysit AI, and how that’s a job humans as a class are bad at doing. Like, he doesn’t need to end each article calling for the overthrow of America to still be useful to read.
Tbh I don’t really expect open source devs to all be commies and anarchists though, and I’ll take a lib over the likes of dhh any day.
The price of gold tends to go up during bad times and down during good times, so I think that industry is essentially just profiting off people’s fears, and buying now (when it’s price is going up) is a bad long term plan
I use drizzle and like it, actually. You still are constructing SQL queries, you still have to understand SQL, but you get some nice type safety from TS and more powerful auto complete than other query tools.
Also, how does writing SQL queries by hand lead to less frequent migrations?
Haha when my kid was younger we self hosted an instance of baby buddy and I was quite surprised it was developed by parents who were also raising a baby at the time
The idea behind relationship design is that if they agree that it works for them, then it’s valid. I know a couple people online who have discussed being on either side of such a dynamic. If the monogamous person wants to eventually marry etc. then perhaps the relationship has a planned expiration time - that’s okay too. Or the polyam person could be fine being married to that person so long as they’re still allowed to have their other relationships still. Point is that they get to decide for themselves what they’re okay with. It could also just be that the monogamous person only wants one partner, but does not mind that partner having more than one.
Of course, I should also mention I’m using the term “relationship” but part of it being intentionally designed means it could look very different than what you’re envisioning. Like the polyam person could be ace but desires multiple romantic relationships, and the monogamous person might think that’s fine. Or maybe the monogamous person is really just monogamous wrt child raising, and wants only that dyad to be co-parenting, but if otherwise open to other forms of relationship. Etc.
A related idea is relationship anarchy.
Polyam is a bit of an umbrella term and there’s many different flavors of it, so I’m not sure what you mean by polyam having or not having the “correct” idea. That’s not really how relationships work anyhow.
It sounds like you’d be a fan of the idea of “relationship design” though - it’s about regularly discussing the design of a relationship collaboratively rather than falling into any template of what a relationship is “supposed” to be or look like. Not just the relationship escalator template, but even ideas common in the polyam community like not adding monogamous people into a polyam network.
I’m not a fan of slop and the whole attention economy / arms race social media has created, but fwiw I think it’s less important to make sure people are literate and more important to ensure our society does not require literacy. Iirc over half of Americans are already considered at least partially illiterate, and they’re not really accommodated for adequately.
Also, language and mediums do shift over time and preferring video over text isn’t an inherently bad thing imo.
I like this; it aligns with my preference for restorative justice before punitive justice. I do wonder how they would handle cases like Israel v Palestine though.
Honestly I would love this. Replace comms with tags (which side note: should work with mastodon tags), posts can be in as many tags as possible, and those tags should be editable after posting, including my moderators.
I think the main issue would be that currently moderators are per-comnunity, and having moderators per-tag just feels weird.
Additionally, the blurring of content could be done like bluesky labelers, where you can specify that certain tags should make content fully hidden, blurred, or fully visible.
I’m perhaps a less picky eater when it comes to books, but I’ve read the bezzle (yes I’m now aware that’s the middle of the series, fortunately I don’t think that mattered much) and am currently reading through the lost cause, and I find them enjoyable reads. I’m hardly a stranger to the ideas and concepts he’s discussing, but reading stories is fun and I enjoy reading a story that aligns with my values.