☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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Cake day: March 30th, 2020
  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlMtoAsk Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml•Why don't we see socialist countries "rewilding" the internet?
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    9 days ago

    I definitely think it’s the latter, because vast majority of people don’t really think about AI at all. It’s exactly as you say, there’s just an online bubble where people are eager to signal group membership to each other, and they just rally around talking about how much they hate AI. I also think there are a bunch of grifters using this as a low hanging fruit to grow their subscribers.

    And breaking out of the liberal mainstream is no small achievement. We’re all products of our environment, and when everybody holds common beliefs around you, the process of questioning that is not easy. You often feel like you’re the one taking crazy pills when you start discarding mainstream beliefs. Learning is a continuous process, we all hold incorrect ideas in our heads, and there’s nothing wrong with that. The key is developing the ability to introspect, to self criticize, and to grow your understanding.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlMtoAsk Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml•Why don't we see socialist countries "rewilding" the internet?
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    10 days ago

    This sort of stuff has to happen organically in my opinion. What the state can do is facilitate this kind of internet by providing people with free hosting for example. The tools for this already exist, I’d argue the Fediverse model is the perfect way to do this. The problem the original internet had was discoverability. If you had your blog, then people would have to find it through web rings or word of mouth. With the ActivityPub, you get organic propagation of content through the network. In my opinion, that’s the missing piece.

    The two barriers that exist right now are hosting costs and technical know how to maintain your own server. And that’s the sort of thing that could be subsidized by the state. I think it would be absolutely fantastic if China or Vietnam gave everyone an option to spin up a personal site that was federated, and people could just do whatever there.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPtoChapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Americans are slowly realizing they're living in a plutocracyEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I’d argue these things build on each other. Nobody should expect people who have been indoctrinated all their live to completely change their views at the first revelation that things aren’t working as they were told. But seeing more and more evidence of the depravity of the oligarchs at the same time as their own standard of living continues to erode is forcing people to start questioning things.

    The key part here is the material decline affecting people’s lived experience. Back when the economy was more or less functional, people would read about stuff like Panama papers and shrug. It didn’t affect them personally, there was nothing they could do about it, and they had their own immediate problems to focus on. Now, people are barely making ends meet, jobs are scarce, the cost of living is going up. And these are things people are now experiencing in their daily lives, and seeing the sheer depravity of the elites who rule over them is starting to push people over the edge.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlMtoAsk Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml•How to actually move to china?
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    11 days ago

    Getting HK residency is relatively straight forward too. You can get permanent residency by legally working and living there for a continuous period of 7 years. After that, you apply to the Immigration Department for verification. This grants you permanent resident status in Hong Kong.

    Although, that does not make you a Chinese citizen, you would still have to go through a separate naturalization process for Chinese nationality.

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