Post 9gprv8cQfPCTqWIMIS by qonnyr@toot.cafe
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 (DIR) Post #9gprv8cQfPCTqWIMIS by qonnyr@toot.cafe
       2019-03-03T20:08:31Z
       
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       Alyssa Rosenzweig wrote a really good article on the problems with FLOSS decentralization: https://rosenzweig.io/the-federation-fallacy.html
       
 (DIR) Post #9gprv8vZWEVqntFe8O by er1n@social.mecanis.me
       2019-03-03T20:37:35Z
       
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       @qonnyr i'm concerned about one technical point: that distribution is user count versus "instance popularity". i would like to see the distribution for *post volume in the last $window*. mastodon.social has an enormous volume of users, but most accounts are dead, crossposting, or use the site a negligible amount; i'd like to know what the distribution of instance size versus volume of content pushed is
       
 (DIR) Post #9gprv9A6eC8fWy3Fmy by er1n@social.mecanis.me
       2019-03-03T20:52:30Z
       
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       @qonnyrSorry to direct all these comments at /you/ but i don't believe Rosenzweig is on here :p"Anarchy, whether real or cyber, is a zone where life is “nasty, brutish, and short”; there is no guarantee of true freedom ... soon the power hungry will fill in the void. ... these new despots often establish totalitarian regimes no better than those originally overturned."This takes an extremely negative definition of anarchy, and conflates it immediately and generally with totalitarianism. Which is odd to me, even though I grasp the rhetorical point. I don't disagree with the article, but the closing argument feels weak to me, especially when Rosenzweig's 'informational democracy' doesn't really fix people's problems with chafing against unchallengable policy. Using her example, I see people (many of them nontechnical queer people) yelling about Wikimedia's management and feeling powerless to affect policy, decisions, and edit approvals.