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Let’s face it, everyone is still on Twitter, even those who were the loudest about boycotting it back then.
This is not the early 2000s when social media platforms were still carving out their own turfs. This is the terminal stage where a handful of social media companies have already captured the entire market.
The idea that decentralization can somehow topple the central authority is a myth, just like how Bitcoiners continue to believe that their fake currency can somehow topple the central banks.
There is a reason why Marxists talk about seizing the means of production, not creating alternative structures around it.
Actually the CPC was so successful because it did create alternatives to the warlord institutions that folks could rely on, Marxists have always been creating alternative structures around the current order to bypass them.
Also my sibling in sinai, you are posting on the federated alternative to reddit
Land reform was instrumental to unleashing the revolutionary potential of the peasantry, but in the end, the race between the CPC and the KMT to capture the Japanese industries in the Northeast as the Soviets began to withdraw became the most crucial moment that defined the future of the Chinese communist movement.
Mao was famous for saying that he is willing to give up all their existing bases in China, so long as they can capture the Northeast (where the most developed heavy industries built by the Japanese stood), the revolutionary movement would survive. There simply wasn’t enough heavy industries in all the other regions of China combined at the time to sustain an ongoing war with the KMT. Mao was very aware of this fact and was supremely adaptable to the dynamic and changing conditions of the time.
Thanks, my partner invented it, they're great
Love it!
I dont get it. Is it about moses or the canal?
It's like a Moses thing, my brother in Christ is funny but limited to Christian adjacent people atleast, whereas everyone can be a sibling and every abrahamic religion's had something going on in the Sinai.
Equating free & open equivalents, which just need adoption, to cryptocurrency which has significant flaws doesn't make sense to me... It costs nothing to switch, there's no inherent risks involved. It remains to be seen what happens long term with Twitter financially too. Maybe Musk gets another State/DOD bailout or it's too valuable as propaganda/data collection to some present shareholder, but that's not decided.
I don't use any Twitter or equivalents, but I do see screenshots and archive/proxy links to it.
It’s the same reason why Linux is the free and even superior alternative to Windows and Mac, but most people will never use it. There are, of course, adoption, but it will never achieve the critical mass needed to displace the dominant systems. Most people will just follow whatever everyone is using, and the platforms that have already penetrated the entire depth of the market, and have the most capital, will always have a very strong head start against their competitors.
I herd this is the year of linux on the desktop
FINALLY
Seriously that was slanderous! I'm bookmarking this for my next screed.
I mean I'm not
Yeah, so unlike utopians like Lenin, who had crazy delusions about somehow creating institutions that operated in parallel to existing power structures in order to smash the state machinery and retain a mostly-functional society.
"Dual Power"? What's that, the name of a syndicate?
You misunderstood what I said. There is no contradiction with what Lenin said here.
So? I can enjoy Hexbear without needing to first eliminate reddit. I do it all the time!