Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

@fluffy @pasture
I think a question that needs to be asked is: will the government still be the one doing the governing? At what point do big tech have more influence on the daily lives of people, through their platform policies, than the official government? And if that point is reached and surpassed, is the government the one we should be scared of becoming tyrannical, or are the companies?

As 5 currently stands, if there are entities that are already doing the government's work, is it really necessary for the government to invest resources in their own organizations? If you're the government, why not profit from what's being done already, and only intervene when you think twitter/fb aren't being tyrannical enough? Let tech companies build the framework by themselves, as they are currently doing, and at some point in the future, if you really need to push things farther, you can just take them over.

Now whether it will be the government or corporations that will become the big tyrant in the end, I don't know. But so far they seem to be working towards the same goal, using each other at the very least, maybe even cooperating fully without us knowing.

@Nukie
Your name seems very appropriate for that greentext.

@SteveTheDragon @histoire
In a way, it can be seen as "pay what you think it deserves" model. And while counter-intuitive, such models can be widely successful if your product is good. I remember seeing a news report on a Romanian bar/restaurant, that was close to bankruptcy, tried this approach and was suddenly recovering and making more money than it ever had.

@fluffy @pasture
Can't tell if 5 is a thing, although cancel culture mobs seem to be doing the same already.
Otherwise, I'd argue that even up to 6,7 and 8 have slowly begun.

@histoire @SteveTheDragon
Depending on how exactly you define communism, open source software does fulfill some of the requirements for the utopic vision of communism. The whole people work on something with no other motivation than that they want to, they're passionate about it, and they don't actually ask for something in return.

But the reality is not that simple. You might not pay for using Ubuntu, but companies can pay to get extra support and other services. In reality, what you get as free and open software, can be free advertising for other paid services. So the whole enterprise still ends up being driven by capitalist forces.

@pasture @fluffy
Since y'all too coward to say it, I will. Fuck diversity. Diversity is nothing more than a dog whistle for borderline communists. Demanding you put some poc front and center instead of the people who did the work is racist bullshit, it's corruption, it's an attempt to destroy each and every institution that made western civilization work.

You want diversity, how about you put a fundamentalist christian, an atheist, a feminist and a 9/11 truther in the same team. That's the diversity I'd support. But since that's not what we're talking about, fuck diversity.

@Merlin
I don't really believe it tbh. I don't think he's afraid of the n-word, but I don't see him abusing it either.

@tomboyceo @COOL_FREE_RINGTONES
I'm afraid I have an aunt in Belgium. It's real guys... 😢

Is it weird that I want this to be real?

@histoire @nosleep@neckbeard.xyz
Doesn't sound that bad.

@histoire @nosleep@neckbeard.xyz
What's the worse that can happen.

@nosleep@neckbeard.xyz
Meh... wasn't using it much anyway. I'll look for an open source alternative.

@fluffy
Whichever you'd like.

@icedquinn @galena
Don't know about immortality, but there are a number of things I'd like to witness that I know are likely to happen some decades after I die.

@galena @icedquinn
Ideally, I'd want to live at least until we manage to communicate with alien civilizations.

@icedquinn
I guess even the Universe can't resist the urge to fuck.

@icedquinn @galena
What's the edger poe clause?