absolutely wrecked in the marketplace of ideas

<adjective> capitalism is good as opposed to <adjective> capitalism which is bad, actually.

(when i search for the OP, @RussellsBarbershopQuartet@monads.online, on my instance they come up as "FBI Official". why is this, federated experts)

:xi-pog:

I'm actually a "classical" capitalist which is a "cumsumer first" model and it's the producers which must "sink in the cum or cum in the sink"...so anyway: we're all in this together, let's share ideas because it's the right thing to do for "the cumsumer".

here's the thing about foss bullshit. it's actually good if you approach it from a communist lens instead of the quasi libertarian liberalism it's usually depicted as. it's not a revolutionary project by any stretch but it's a fairly decent starting point for what intellectual commodities might look like outside of capitalism--the fact that most foss support comes from big companies, basically creating a set of shared libraries they can all use without copying each other's work, is actually a pretty remarkable thing! imagine if this heroic computing effort was put in service of the people as a whole as opposed to writing adware

A dunk so beautiful in its simplicity.

I really don't understand Mastodon. Where are the likes? What's a boost? What's the difference between a bookmark and a favourite?

Great dunk but wtf was that first post? FOSS doesn't need a bunch of semantic whinging to be good, it's good because making things and sharing them is good.