Whoa! Cakeday on Lemmy! Thanks!

Also, great notes! :D

Yes. In a world where resources and production are plentiful – the hypothetical post-scarcity world – then you could theoretically have this.

But the above article is about a business model that is as far from that future as possible. In fact, going in the opposite direction. It’s a late stage capitalism business model and it is met with fanfare from the tech press somehow.

Make robots that produce a thing. Lease those robots to franchisees or whatever. Take a cut, and funnel money upwards while ceasing to innovate or produce anything, and defend the “tech” through litigation. Stock bubble, cash out. New owners enshittify by raising rates, decreasing quality, until product is no longer viable. Sue customers for breach of contract.

It’s fucked. And it’ll only get unfucked if legislation and enforcement of legislation is not wholly captured by the people doing the fucking.

The next class war is here. He who owns the robots (means of production) wins. Leasing out pizza robots. Ewww.

There’s a lot of versions and variations of this, all saying the same thing. Including the comic above. I don’t think any of them are wrong, as long as the message is heard :)

Good English version too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Excellent work folks!

The true power of federation showing itself here. In this case, it’s two software packages with the same server/admin team – which basically future proofs both.

I’d make a recommendation: have some sort of cross-pollination tool. Basically, pull the database of all subscribed communities on Lemmy.ca and have a bot subscribe to the same on PieFed, and vice versa. Probably easy to do if you have server-side access.

Furthermore, in the ideal world, “Local” from the Lemmy instance includes the piefed.ca local commuities. This might be a harder ask. The reason would be to prevent bisecting the Local feeds.

Finally, ideally there is a community migration tool, to cross between Lemmy and PieFed if a community wants to move from one side to the other. This would be a bigger project, but would future proof Fedican even further should either piece of software become badly maintained.

Well, okay, I just created a year’s worth of work for a programmer. How can I help?

Doubly so for being a trans brick

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I want to take that through airport security in the US. ;)

Thanks for your hard work. Also it’s very interesting in that the nature of the traffic is unknown. Bots scouring content?

This is like some sort of black mirror ad