Are you liberal leaning or not? Is this a insult to you? If so, I’m clapping to that and you’re not really a liberal.
You’re the one putting me in an Ivory Tower when my question is whether that tool is the right one to be adopted and be made known to others and I made myself clear that I believe the weaponized WWW is a tool for the status quo.
You can’t game the system, that’s a liberal belief proven wrong through the History since the Social Democrats in Germany.
Heck, I just said the old BBS and IRC made a better interconnecting model for people based on the genuine desire of sharing something, a very Socialist thing to do. There is, a positive thing to me, is it to you?
But we can’t connect on your terms because I believe you are in the wrong and a correction would be beneficial to you.
But the neoliberal consensus of conformity makes the sleeping people think that a confrontation of ideas is a bad thing and the middle ground is the desirable choice.
Guess what? The middle ground to accommodate ideas that are beneficial to the ruling class isn’t a middle ground at all. The power unbalance is too great to ignore.
And your take on what’s more comfortable works for them. Because they control the dopamine and serotonin intake cycles though the screens on the WWW. And you’re just reproducing that opinion because in any epoch the ruling ideas are the ideias of the ruling class. While I’m all for a paradigm shift.
As for your last claim of demagogy, that and populism are just words historically meant to prevent exposition of an idea siding with the working class’ need of being more involved in politics. Sometimes “tankie” is the one used. Alas, it’s par for the course.
Ah, yes: on the last line, I’m not even advocating for Gemini per si. You do you.
Let me mince this to you in a more palatable bit but with Marxist praxis: working together under the same old status quo is exactly what put all of us in the cage. There won’t be a magical popular new protocol being birthed from the void: it’s precisely the myriad of options that will allow the best one to be battle tested (in politics, we call this the two-line struggle although there are more than two lines in dispute) and gain traction. Idealism is expecting that the same old strategy of putting up with what exists right now for the lack of a sure win strategy will defeat the greed corporations controlling the current Web, the current social complacency, the gerrymandering, the two parties system, the capitalism.
“Lock ourselves in?” We want to overthrow the current state of affairs.
Ok, I’ve found out a liberal on Lemmy.ml. 🤦♂️
This is not about nostalgia but to fight against surveillance weaponization and commoditification of what was once a tool for knowledge sharing. The old internet of bulletin boards and irc was essentially human, this thing we have now is something else. Did you chuckle at that chunck of text and not get where the author (as many of us) was standing from?
A tiny dose of the US does to everyone else.
Only one of the following conclusions is possible:
1- Either the govt should stop treat you as a muslim “terrorist”.
2- Or the USians aren’t entitled to see themselves as any different of everyone else.
I’d say the majority of progressive lefties, even US “communists”, aren’t comfortable to admit the 1st one but are still in a cognitive dissonance to agree with the 2nd one.
I brain farted but I thought you had said the pages weren’t important, so the same would be said about the hypertext transfer protocol. Now I see you were talking about the cruft.