I’ve put together lists of alternatives on this site: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/

That does all sound much more equitable. But don’t you just end up with a different 1% controlling everything, as per every communist state in the past? And isn’t that because not everyone is a worker - you have to have the admin layer at the top, who are deciding what is ‘best for society’, and they can (and due to human nature usually do) most decide what is best for themselves.

What you describe sounds MUCH better for the majority of people - but I worry about the unaccountability of the ruling admin layer.

Does communism/socialism have rules for mitigating that (which haven’t been followed by communist states, but could be)?

see, this is the problem - I’ve avoided thinking about politics forever, and now I’m not sure about the main concepts 😂

I’ve always equated high taxes with socialism - so long as those taxes go towards services and redistribution of wealth.

OK - so what *is *socialism? (the main tenets)

very interesting points!

I’ve just started a non-profit (to try to reduce/undermine surveillance capitalism) - and we’ll probably build software along the way. That is entrepreneurship, but not profit focused. However, we would need to be funded and paid to make it work.

How should I frame this in your way of thinking?

For Hitler and Nazi Germany it certainly was a way to prepare for expansionist wars: https://www.richardjevans.com/lectures/autarky-fantasy-reality/

I was just in Denmark recently and it seems like that’s what they have: a capitalist society but regulated by very socialist policies like (really) high taxes. Makes sense to me - I’m probably just not using the right terminology.

They’re all ‘one-party states’ aren’t they?

Opposite of democracy… so whether they work well economically is irrelevant, since you’re relying on the party not to become totalitarian. 😬

Naomi Klein’s book ‘Doppelganger’ is good on this topic…

Socialism yes. I’ve always thought that capitalism regulated with socialist policies is the way forward. That way you can still encourage entrepreneurs to get going.

But we’re still left with the r > g problem (money attracts more money).

Communism is the extreme end of socialism isn’t it? And I’ve always thought that extremes never work. Extremism is a circle…

I’m open to being educated on this though…

Serious question: has communism ever been proved to work at scale? (not communist regimes, the communist ideology)

According to Ray Dalio, you’re right - that is what it will take: revolution or a major war https://youtu.be/BB2r_eOjsPw

How about (instead of communism) aiming for an economy made up predominantly of co-operatives, like in the Basque country in Spain? The Mondragon federation of co-ops.

That way money is distruted quite evenly but you don’t have to get into the whole politics thing.

Urgh this is so backwards.

Governments need to fund more FOSS not less!

Hopefully the EU can increase its support to compensate.

Thank you that is useful to have that explanation here. I had no idea it works like that!

I’ve not seen this type of logging in issue within the Mastodon ‘world’ because no one’s ever ‘sent me a link from another instance and then I tried to log on from that link’ 😂. I just tried it on an inprivate browser window and of course it’s the same as what I found here with Lemmy - as you described. With Mastodon I’m on the .social instance and I can see and interact with posts from any other instance - but after your explanation I realise that’s because the content was alwasy served up from within the instance.

[I agree that with ActivityPub we certainly cannot expect to log in with the same handle *between *services (i.e. use your Mastodon handle to log in to Lemmy). Although that would be cool. Persistent IDs across the fediverse would be the dream imho (like Nostr does it).]

oh right. Well here’s the post I was talking about: https://lemmyverse.link/feddit.nl/post/31396342 😊 Thanks!

Thank you all for explaining.

The behaviour I was expecting was to click ‘login’ on the feddit.nl page, and that login page to recognise that I was logging in with the credentials used by lemmy.ml, and to log me into lemmy.ml instead, and then to be redirected to the ‘local’ version of the link on the lemmy.ml instance.

Rather than it just be a feddit.nl login page only, and be told ‘log in not recognised’. That’s where my confusion came from. I’m like “wait, I can’t log into Lemmy here? why?!”

Ooooooooh I see! right… yes that works.

I wasn’t familiar with the idea of the instance ‘fetching’ a post. Thank you!