I don’t read them either. I go by independent worker-owned cooperatives.

Not exactly, if Reddit is a single tree, then Lemmy is a forest of trees.

Sputnik is state-funded by the Russian kleptocratic oligarchy. I’d rather believe a literal comedian.

… Albania?

Yup, Codeberg >>

Or Radicle, which is P2P

I don’t think only investing into business and production is what would help. If those businesses get taken over by venture capitalists or go into stocks, then the motive shifts towards profit, rather than people.

It’d help more if those labour groups were worker co-operatives, and their people worked together with trade unions and left-wing parties to establish community exchanges, and the workers use the profits of cooperatives to:

1. save for crises, ensuring that even then, workers still can thrive.
2. establish and support more labour groups in different sectors (media and culture included), being all horizontally federated.
3. grow funds to outcompete capitalist structures, to take them over and turn them into other worker-owned cooperatives, and so the ball keeps on rolling.
4. train themselves to defend one another, and learn each other’s jobs. This in case scabs (strike-breakers) or cops arrive and arrest some workers

Especially farms, mines, woodlands, – anything involving natural resources and land – would be crucial.

Sure, in this age of digitalisation, a lot happens online, too. But even then, at its root, for data centres you need land, water, and resources. For computers, you need minerals, from mines. For cables, you need boats of hardy materials. And for those labourers, you need farms and woodlands to supply them and their clothing.

Why should we restrict ourselves to countries? Let us take inspiration from societies such as the Rojava, the Zapatistas, and Christiana. Those are great and need support.

Wasn’t there a list somewhere where you could see with which instances an instance was federated?

I’d say even Reagan already was a very weird president. Before the Watergate affair with Nixon, trust in American presidents was generally high in non-socialist Europe, though imho they went radically overboard with their anticommunism, conflating anarchism and all liberationist movements with what they saw as red fascism.

After Reagan, the surface may have seemed similar to how it was prior, but beneath in the cogs of the American system, something started breaking the labourers of which we see the effects even now. Reagan instigated a new level of arguments for abolishing the state anywhere, such as COINTELPRO, Operation Cyclone, indebting the American labourer while stagnating wages, and so on, and radicalising the discourse step for step.

It’s interesting to get a perspective from someone living in Africa. I sadly rarely hear from you lot there. What part of Africa, if I may ask, comrade?

If you ask me, the fascists that seize the US have indeed made the US to become a danger to Europe. The former’s south and midwest rapidly are couping the rest from an imperfect bourgeoise democracy - into a fascist dictatorship. But it wasn’t always that way, and this damage must be undone. The root cause of socioeconomic inequity remains to be addressed, while capital and oligarch flight must be halted. By kind and law, and by word and sword.

For there is a lot of good around in the world that we can find and when we look only for the bad, we become addled with inaction, with fear. And that doesn’t help the labour’s cause.

Most Lemmings are from Europe, North America, or New Zealand & Australia. More rarely will you find those from elsewhere. That, and Lemmy was primarily found on being a hub for Marxist-Leninists.

Though in more recent times more people that align with left-wing movements have joined here, primarily due to the Reddit API greed’s exodus. Many came here due to the decentral nature of the fediverse, which is inherently opposed to the oligarchic structures that enabled that API drama in the first place.

So naturally there’s a “bias” against capitalism, and since there aren’t many socialist larger powers left in the world, that gives a pro-CCP boost. China’s government is also often seen as a lesser evil compared to the American fascists, though I prefer neither.

Me? I have my reservations about Marxist-Leninism. I agree with Marxist theory, though.

I would describe myself as an anarchist communist, or a council communist. In terms of where I align, I decline states altogether. But for my own liberty to speak out, I’m not exactly a fan of the Usonian (since they repress personal liberties due to religious indoctrination) or Chinese government (due to their crackdown on class solidarity with queers). In both countries, a lot of people exist that have their own respectable views, but unfortunately, it is leadership that can be the root of repression and corruption. The EU is somewhat decent in terms of personal liberties, though it’s far too neoliberal and too little socialist/communist.

Ultimately, I believe that socialism and communism are the better path, and that those are only possible through full liberation and emancipation from repression, including those of queers. I prefer a community exchange system over one where economic colonialism renews itself in perpetuity.

If you’d like some theory, I can recommend Kropotkin’s Conquest of Bread, as well as reading on the Anarchist Library.

Especially the ones aggressively marketed, or noted as independent when they cannot give concrete evidence for whence their finances and ownership come. Always question and investigate, and make sure trusted people know you do so.

Not to mention Graphite and Pegasus, Israeli spyware.

When parliaments have to inquire their own spy services, it’s a sign that these spy services must be disbanded, as they are becoming a deep state of their own, intimidating and harassing politicians. After all, if you can’t trust your own politicians, whom can you? And that’s problematic.

Disbanding those services and prohibiting any secret services from ever forming, would also regain a great deal of trust of society in each other. And that trust in turn, can foster society to advance for mankind.

Look what autocratic(ising) governments don’t do shit against. And what their opposing governments tell about the autocrat(ising) ones.

Those are more likely to be honeypots imho, as they claim to be one thing but likely work for another.

COINTELPRO (or as I’d rather label it, SOWTERROR), showed that the US government heavily opposed mutual aid and class solidarity, and combatted the Black Panthers, by defaming them, inserting gun control laws once they started police watching, bombing their homes and so on.

That said… let’s take an example. Correct me if I’m wrong, I’m working from my memory here.

DeepSeek is open-source, while ChatGPT isn’t. DeepSeek does however, participate in censorship (which Muskrat’s models also do, just in a different direction). DeepSeek is much more efficient, threatening Western models.

And imho, the latter is why many Western governments oppose using it. They say it’s spyware, but how can we be sure ChatGPT isn’t? It’s proprietary shit.

But both models are honeypots, just in their own ways. Sure, DeepSeek is open-source as it claims. But it also censors itself to unnecessary extents. Then there’s ChatGPT, which claims to be secure… but how can we know that when it’s proprietary and we cannot crosscheck its source code?

Small question, but does GOS allow for an interface that’s more similar to the Apple and e/OS ones?

I know, to each their own, but personally I actually do like their interface.

I dunno, the latter is exactly how capitalism is ‘supposed’ to work.

It is not capitalism but through liberation from it, that we will be able to find a healthy society.

I think this would be a relatively straightforward explanation. Correct me if I’m wrong.

Privacy - whether your door’s keys are given to someone.

Anonymity - whether or not someone can see what’s behind your door.

Security - whether or not your door is locked and has alarms.

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