Comment on We should insulate Wolfballs against Communism
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years agoOne important thing is that wolfballs isn't reddit. It's a federated website running FOSS software that supports the ActivityPub software platform.
With reddit, there's one and only one reddit and it's the only place you can host a reddit community. If you're not allowed to host something on reddit.com, then you're not allowed to host something on reddit.
By contrast, if someone can't host their lemmy community on wolfballs, they can turn right around and buy wolfdick.com and host their own instance. Hell, most lemmy instances are hosted on .ml (marxist leninist) domains, they're overtly communist already, and they can moderate their communities on their sites however they like -- and they do.
On a site they control, they can subscribe to any communities on any site they wish, or they can block any site or community or users they desire.
The concept of fairness is significantly different in an ecosystem like that. Anyone can start a site, nobody needs to ask permission, and if you get banned from one of the instances (I'm now banned from lemmy.ml because of course I am), your ability to engage has only been lessened by one site you're not directly using.
In some ways, they do us a favor in that manner: They become a hugbox echo chamber where nobody is allowed to disagree, and the rest of us can hang out in the smoking section with the cool kids who can say things people don't like.
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
We need to form a network of more free instances. The left is really good at organizing. I know the code pretty well now. At least the api part not yet the activity pub parts. I'm happy to teach any developers how things work ect..
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
I think the big thing won't be technological, it'll be social. We need to get out there and shout each other out and make sure we connect together.
Freedom wins out in the end because unlike the commies, we don't go actively kicking our most interesting people out just because they're saying things we don't immediately like.
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
For sure. But having technically competent people would make us a strong force. If all the technology and knowledge is in the hands of the left that can present problems. They will form extensive blacklist hard coded in apps ect...
As far as organizing Hard to find everyone. Slow and steady will work with a few goid people to evangelize or need some crazy way to spread the word. People are getting siloed in competing platforms. Walled off gardens. It will come with time. Election season should bring a lot of people after they get their post deleted.