Comment on House of J (John+Joan Mastodon), or: Five Ways the Fediverse could help to save Liberal Democracy

• sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Firstly: commerzialization will come eventually anyways

  And it’s going to make the fediverse way worse.

  Secondly: what has all of that to do with democracy? I would hope that the Fediverse thrives to become a democratic place.

  I’m not sure I understand your idea of democracy. Isn’t the fediverse “democratic” already? Everyone is free to federate and defederate with anyone.

  Also, the Fediverse is currently still rather small. If it should benefit humanity as a whole, you will not be able to avoid corporations completely.

  Corporations are not humans. They use us and see us as nothing more than numbers. They don’t give a shit about people or humanity as a whole.

  I’ll make sure to block every corp I’m aware of. You’re still free to do otherwise, of course. Isn’t that democracy for you?

  Wow, that’s great. Only the thing that our society is based on for last decades with a tradition of hundreds of years. Great, down the toilet with it! Hope you got some idea with what to replace it …

  You have idealised liberalism. It only has brought crisis after crisis, provoked unnecessary wars, given birth to monstrous cynical corporations, etc.

  I’m not saying democracy is broken, just liberalism.

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