The richest 1 percent (77 million people) were responsible for 16 percent of global consumption emissions in 2019 —more than all car and road transport emissions. The richest 10 percent accounted for half (50 percent) of emissions.
To be a member of the richest 1% of the world you need a net worth of about $800k -- so while the billionaire class is still a massive problem, an even larger problem ecologically is that tens of millions of moderately wealthy people from wealthy nations have massively outsized carbon footprints.
I think E2EE would be a great addition -- and certainly a necessary one for proper DM support -- but what I would really love to see is a version where the instance can act like a certificate authority in a SSL/TLS-like trust chain, so that each user could publish and revoke keys for different purposes. Then I might have separate keys for different groups or individual members, kind of like Google+ (remember that?) used to have "circles" and now FB has Friend List or X/Twitter has Circles.
This is a good, short read. For those who are unfamiliar with the AGPL license that the author proposes we all start using, the main difference (and I am not a lawyer) is that under the AGPL, the source code including any modifications must also be made available to all users interacting with the software over a network. This prevents companies from making proprietary versions of AGPL software that are only accessible as a web service, which is one of the big ways that corporations are able to profit from GPL source code contributions these days.
The reason is that the cost of living in the US has been decoupled from wage inflation for a long time.
These days the government’s inability to regulate industry (due to partisan gridlock) combined with the fact that corporations used the period of high inflation to also hike prices has made it even worse for those who were already living on or close to the margin.
From the slide deck (which is well worth a read IMO), "The Trust Index is the average percent trust in NGOs, business, government and media. ". The same deck indicates that government is seen as, "as Far Less Competent and Ethical than Business." So what this really tells me is that business (as a whole) is doing a FAR better job of marketing/PR than governments are, which is to be expected I suppose.
I honestly think the tiny fraction of MAU might be the reason. Something like once you exceed a Dunbar Number of contacts in a community it starts to go downhill.
Is that pedal set up up to drive the machine, or is it just for looks?