Your first point makes zero sense: it can’t be both “for profit” and have “no means of generating income”.

Are you for real? The entire concept of Enshittification hinges on the real fact that most internet services start out with a net negative “profit” and are kept alive through large injections of VC capital. This allows them to offer the service for free or close to free to gain a massive user base, which they then leverage for profit later on through measures that make the service worse for consumers. The entire reason Mastodon, Lemmy, and the federated social network exist is because of this contradiction.

I’m curious to hear the objections and alteratives. I’m not fully versed in anarchist thought.

Do they run candidates? I’m curious where. I know they do presidential campaigns but how many local races do they really run in?

Lol RFA, always “reliable”.

This is precisely what we should be doing with these tools, good on ya!

You have 4 removed comments before the ban, the rest of your history is still very visible in your profile, so they didn’t purge your account, they removed a few comments, which is why it says, “removed by mod”. It’s funny reading your removed comments. The downvote removal is looked back on as a pretty good change. I’ve not used the site when it had downvotes, but frankly, I like that they’re gone. I don’t even know what the “main” issue is, and I’ve never heard anyone talk about it. The site has never struck me as a “Chapo” site, even though I know that is its origins. I’ve listened to the Chapo pod before, not for me, honestly. Frankly, seems that separating from the Chapo brand was the right choice.

Anyway, 4 years is a long time to hold a grudge.

I wish we were federated with slrpnk.net honestly. The integrations you have over there are really cool (dokuwiki, etc), and you’re all comrades in making, IMO.

Just wanted to say, I like the posters from Vegan Theory Club, it’s a cool place.

It’s almost like there is actual persecution of leftists in the world, as opposed to whatever these chuds online with their “Woke video game” spreadsheets call persecution.

Only the biggest spoon.

A billionaire by any other name will have just as broken a dick.

That’s a weird take, Hexbear is obviously a Left Unity instance, and there are plenty of Anarchists on the site. To me, people who think like this really need to hone in on what exactly their objections are with “Authoritarian Left” thought.

black and white thinking

What is an example of Hexbear “black and white thinking”?

I have an account on Hexbear, I also mod their !parenting@hexbear.net community, which has been growing steadily. It’s always wild to me to read what people think goes on at the site because, in my engagement with folks, it’s clear that everyone is just someone trying to get by in this crazy world we live in. All this talk about “tankies” or whatever, is pretty “online” behavior, and Hexbear often appears to me the least online by comparison. Sure, we’re active on the site, but I don’t get the sense that many people are wildly active outside the site, many people have negative views on most social media and have no interest in it.

The other thing that people never seem to notice is just how active our !mutual_aid@hexbear.net community is, and just how generous the users can be. There is a real sense of community on Hexbear that I struggle to find on the wider internet. That probably has a lot to do with the relative size of the user base.

Even though zee news was unable confirm the footage’s accuracy

Listen here, bub, we don’t need to “confirm” any kind of “accuracy” if it aligns with our racist view of China and Chinese people.

You’ve fully paid off your house? Because, if your house is under a mortgage, it’s not your property.