Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted
SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Every city should host main public web servicies for its citizens, each one as an instance of a complex system, that’s how anarchy works.
Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted
SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Every city should host main public web servicies for its citizens, each one as an instance of a complex system, that’s how anarchy works.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That quickly becomes a tragedy of the commons. The city pays for it but how do you verify “citizenship”?
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
If you mean citizenship as being associated to the city whose hosting services you are using, yhe power or water bill pointed at your name and residence should be able to do that. Now, if you want that plus anonimity, the only practical option I can think of for a city-wide physical campaign is some sort of GPG Signature Meetup (“signature party”).
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Many people live in cities without owning their house. So they never see those bills. Renters are usually two levels away from the actual owner. Then there are all the people who live and work in cities but aren’t official renters.
0x0@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
In my country it’s illegal for the landlord to include utilities in the price.
It’s the responsibility of the tenant to subscribe to those services in their name.
It’s done to prevent landlords from cutting utilities on a whim or to pressure late payments.
rmrf@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
In the USA, most power bills are the tenants’ responsibility. In the USA, virtually all internet connections are the tenants’ responsibility.
The locality hosting the services could also pass a law requiring the tenants to either bear responsibilities for, or be included in, all utility related billing.
A lot of arguments in this thread seem to be ignoring this as a solution to the legitimate problems they’re raising.
dangercake@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
If every city has the same then why would you even want to?
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It would have to be a national mandate that is available in every city or everyone would use the free service from one city but not vote to raise the taxes in their city to pay for their own.
If it’s a national mandate, then might as well make it a national service.