keep being a good influence; get anyone and all that you can in the good fight against centralized corporate control.

another reason why not to use whatsapp? for all that is good, don’t use meta or any corporate technofascist company. there are better options.

I appreciate all the hard work being done in creating good decentralized FOSS alternatives to proprietary platforms, so thank you.

The cherry on top is that as far as I can tell you guys are socialists/communists so here’s hoping liberals/libertarians/conservatives also inspired by FOSS and decentralized spaces actually start reading marx.

It’s a damned shame bookchin wrote a terrible article filled with wild distortions of history of israel/palestine. It goes without saying that people should just not go to bookchin to have an accurate or rigorous framing of middle east’s history and society. Ok, he inspired autonomous democratic movements like rojava, but that’s beside the point of it all and more linked to his social theories of democracy rather than any concrete understanding of history - as far as I know he never studied the history of the middle east in any serious depth.

His social ecology essays are filled with interesting stuff and did have some very good critiques of different environmentalist currents, he did have some strange critiques of Marx at times, but I still respect some of that work even if I may not agree with much of it. His views on zionism is another story though, not excusable. The silver lining is (as far as I know) it was just that one article.

Not sure who Maknho is so thanks for the name drop I’ll check their work out, but as far as I know, Bookchin was a lefty anarchist. I always assumed his later ‘libertarian phase’ was just another label that he’d eventually disavow as well but that his critique of the state also went alongside his critique of the market.

Can you refer me to other libertarians who are particularly anti-market, in the American context?

In my opinion what defines libertarianism overall is being non-statist and a belief in markets dictating all of life.

Left libertarianism is just progressive on social issues.

have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water, mandrake?

lemmy is much smaller so far and I like the communities. I also don’t feel like i’m being psyop’d by a bunch of bots in the larger communities like on reddit.

I also think the same way. If it was short form content of the same subject, ok maaaaybe the brain won’t be so clusterfucked. but as it is, it’s so random it’s just frying our brains.

basically any product advertised just because i’m spiteful like that lmao

take it to the next level and add a net subdomain!

net.net.net

easy to remember!

Using rsync in a bash script to backup my files.

I have no idea but hopefully the ‘Proprietary’ branch of human technology is discontinued.