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poVoq,
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It’s hyperbole to think had the January 6th riots succeeded in doing what ever it was they attempted to do, the US would be ruled by outright fascists right now. Sure, the situation would be likely worse than it is now, but very likely not substantially different.

I think the article is correct at least in so far as to make a distinction between right wing populists like Trump and outright fascists.

poVoq,
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It’s very speculative, but compare some places in Canada of similar latitudes in regards to population density and possibility to grow food to those in Europe. Very few people realize how atypically mild the European climate is relative to how far north most of it is.

Quick review of the game system (wandering.shop)

A bit negative, but I kind of agree that combat should probably have less emphasis in a Solarpunk RPG. I remember from the old days that the Paranoia RPG had a similar situation where combat really wasn’t the focus of the game, so they pretty much kept it out of the rulebook and left it to the game master to flesh out if...

poVoq,
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Without having read the rulebook myself, I was thinking if there is a need for “action”, maybe that should rather take place as some form of “fight” with the environment due to natural disasters? There are actually many interesting examples of real-world simulation exercises for disaster relief groups, so maybe this could be a bit stream-lined into a more fun game concept?

poVoq,
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I don’t think the critique is in inclusion of violence itself, but rather on how much space the mechanics for it take up in the rule book/character sheets and how that indirectly nudges players to seek violent solutions to problems.

My guess is that this is a “trap” of using an existing RPG rule book as a base, since most classical RPGs are rather combat simulators with “roleplay” bolted on top (the mentioned Paranoia RPG being one of the few notable exceptions).

poVoq,
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No they don’t. Github was aquired by Microsoft to act as a funnel into their Azure Cloud and similar projects and thus subject to that “market”.

poVoq,
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Yes, hence the quotation marks in “market”. But Microsoft is a company large enough to have an internal “market” for different departments and there is also the outward pressure from Mirosoft’s shareholders for whom the cloud business in the main driver of profits/stock value.

Edit: Maybe to make it more clear: Yes there are no advertisers as in the classical “enshittification” model, but Github is subject to similar outside pressures that do not prioritize the needs of the Github users and thus a very similar dynamic enfolds.

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Github is pretty much a social network for coders these days. If it was so easy to switch away or just not use their service, why is it that the vast majority of projects are hosted there? Git alone can’t be the reason, as you rightly say it isn’t any different from other git hosts. The relevant parts are the collaboration features and those are exactly the type of social media that enshittification applies to.

Anaphory, to solarpunk

When there's a new RPG on the block claiming to do , I'm obviously interested. Recently, @FullyAutomatedRPG made its way to me via @fiction so I'm giving it a look. What does it want to do? It wants to be a kind of D&D for Solarpunk – a big kitchen sink game that becomes a cornerstone for the genre. That's… Hm, I like my RPGs written with a lightning focus on telling specific stories, so I feel like I'll be biased against , but let's see. 1/8

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Since “threads” from Mastodon don’t show up on Lemmy: wandering.shop/

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Decent Decentralisation

https://berjon.com/decent-imaginaries/

Good counter to the focus on protocols.

> a protocol needs to achieve two things: it needs to prevent the accumulation of power imbalances between parties … and it needs to make it easy for users to cooperate in building the the rules they want for how the protocol's operation affects them … the success of decentralisation and … of a democratic digital world rides not only on liberation but also on organising.

@fediverse

By @robin

poVoq,
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This text has some good thoughts, but it fails to conceal the authors apparent dislike of the ActivityPub model that recognizes instance infrastructure as part of the community over the BlueSky model that has a gaping blind-spot there.

As a result the article barely looks into instance level efforts for democratic governance and rather treats the infrastructure as some nebulous existing quality on which users can interact with each other and cooperate.

The cynic in me thinks this blind-spot is intentional in the communication around Bluesky and its proponents, as it allows the owners of the necessary (cloud) infrastructure to retain a hidden power over its users.

poVoq,
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You can’t realistically separate a instance from its users, just like you can’t separate a city (and its governance) from its inhabitants. This atomicity is a result of the real world infrastructure imposing itself on virtual communities. You can argue about “right granularity” all you want in that regard, but in result it just obfuscates where the “capture” happens and likely not for the better (as in the case of BlueSky).

poVoq,
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Making servers a commodity is a convenient illusion that cloud vendors invented for marketing purposes.

To stay with the real-world metaphor: it is a bit like suburbs. They are sold on the illusion of individual freedom in your own home but with the required car ownership as the capture point and an endless list of negative externalities and expensive hidden infrastructure requirements making them entirely unsustainable.

poVoq,
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Federation solves that issue as it allows server inhabitants to “shop” for all their multiple needs by visiting other servers.

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Usually that decoupling already takes place on the level of VPS providers who are really good at providing a commodity service, but personally I think it is in the best interest of any slightly larger community to run their own hardware servers.

Yes it takes some effort to do so, but only when running your own servers can democratic governance of an instance really work, otherwise you are always beholden to various limitations of the VPS provider and its pricing structure.

poVoq,
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True, but they are marketed as such, which is my point. Commodification is nearly always an illusion to vendor-lock or capture you in other ways you don’t suspect, which is exactly what ATProto seems to be designed for as well.

Update: I made a spreadsheet that ranks messaging apps for privacy (privacyspreadsheet.com)

I’ve been working hard on the privacy spreadsheet, which has been in development for over 150 hours now. Its been updated, and now includes more messaging apps and more data, with a better format. I’m still working on the sidebar issue, if anyone knows how to fix it, here’s the GitHub repo:...

poVoq, (edited )
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Still very biased towards Matrix Vs XMPP when it comes to encryption. If it is “provider specific” for XMPP it should be also “provider specific” for Matrix… or rather in 99% of the cases it is not “provider specific” at all but available and enabled by default for both. That there are a few non-compliant server+client combinations is just a result of an open-source and decentralized network.

Edit: same for the “what apps can hand over to police section”, which is also highly provider specific as it doesn’t really concern the “app” but rather the server (which can be self-hosted).

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