A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
That... doesnt bode well for decentralized networks considering how Proteatantism became a force of political power just like the Catholic Church.
That is still more a problem of people and tribalism. People have always found a way or something to try to build a perceived tribe or group around. It doesn't have to be religion.
As someone raised in one of the two sects directly descended from and named for Martin Luther. I find a lot in OP's assessment that I agree with. The reason I consider myself separate or even agnostic these days has more to do with the people and their tribalism in the congregations around me. Than it does the teachings themselves.
The sentiment also resonates with me as an anarchist. Even with very diluted power, negative and evil things can still happen locally. But if you want to have wide spread evil and negative impact you need to concentrate that power. Even today, no one can approach the roman church's record. Not the Mormons, not the Jehovah's Witnesses, not even Scientology. All quite terrible in their own right. Though they may catch up. Who knows.
The ability to choose how you worship (or even if) as well as who you associate with are important and vital. It doesn't guarantee your ability to make good choices and associations. But at least you have the choice.
Imagine if the only public square you had access to was enforced and policed by corrupt bigoted conservatives, or ML. No thank you.
That is still more a problem of people and tribalism.
I don't agree with the rest of your post particularly, but this is the central theme. People will fuck anything up and run it into the ground by virtue of being people, and groups of people fuck things up faster.
Fediverse is no silver bullet; nothing is. The monkey that touches the technology and tools is the source of their misuse, and the monkey never changes, although the tool does.
Not a silver bullet. But basic conditions for the right things to happen. Just as anarchism isn't a silver bullet. But its the right conditions for people to actually choose for themselves. And make the right choices society would otherwise deny. There are no silver bullets. Those have always been fictional tropes. And never my intention to imply otherwise.
sure. One can always make a better tool.
Oh I agree, I am still on the side of FOSS and decentralization, still that comparison to the Protestant Reformation just twinged something in me.
Hmm, is that bad though? To have dezentralized networks represented politicly could also be a chance.
Of all the analogies in the world. This ranks as one of them.
Unfortunately Protestantism became a scourge on the Earth that we are still dealing with. Read the Pope's latest letter on AI - it's absolutely incredible, whether you're religious or not.
Will it lead to big tech becoming slightly less shitty?
If it means that they have to compete iver users more than they do now, yes. I think so.
Yes, slightly. But new tech, new problems.
Just waiting for our Henry VIII moment.
Wasn't he the one who killed a couple wives?
Yeah but only a couple. He also divorced a couple of them!
"But only a couple"
I mean what's a king to do?!
He did many things, killing wives was among them.
Decentralised social networks are to corporate social media what the Christian Jews were to the Pharisees and Sadducees.
On a related note, have a look at reticulum... still early days, but growing fast https://reticulum.network/manual/zen.html
Seems interesting. But I dont see any practical use for today
Everyone will have their own use case. Some will like the networking or prepper aspect of it. Other would like the privacy and chat security aspect. Its nice to know of options because you never know when it would/could become a necessity. It is still very early days, but I don't see it working hand in hand with things like Mastodon and the like.
Everyone will have their own use case. Some will like the networking or prepper aspect of it. Other would like the privacy and chat security aspect. Its nice to know of options because you never know when it would/could become a necessity. It is still very early days, but I don't see it working hand in hand with things like Mastodon and the like.
Should tack a lengthy criticism of social media onto Reddit's front door.
I got me hammer and me nails ready :) Hope their front doors aren't glass
Decentralized networks are to big tech what Ayatollah Khomeini was to the Shah of Iran.
Decentralized networks are to big tech what the liberating Red Army was the Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.