That's the complete opposite direction we should be going in. Ideally, we should be at a 30 hour work week. If wages had kept up with productivity rates, we could've been working 20 hour weeks, giving us so much more time to actually enjoy our lives, develop hobbies, and be active in our local communities.
ProleEntelechy
joined 3 years ago
Yeah, this is what I'm waiting for on Lemmy and Aether. Just enough activity across just enough topics that I can finally drop Reddit.
Only problem, with some of these federated and P2P protocols, is that, for the time being, the kinds of people who leave mainstream social media tend to be fascists, qanon nuts, or straight up delusional to the point of likely needing medical intervention.
Pretty glad I discovered Lemmy though. Everyone here seems fairly sane.
I would imagine the only way to do this is through alternative internet protocols. Tor, I2P, FreeNet, ZeroNet, GNUnet, Yggdrasil, etc.
Maybe something like IPFS could be used in place of conventional CDNs?
For a YouTube alternative, there is LBRY, though I don't know much about how well it really pays, particularly in comparison to YouTube. That said, creators can post paid content, and I think users can setup a monthly tip to the channel, or even tip a creator's video if they want.
Don't know if the devs have set up any kind of payment system based on views though.
In regards to moderation, some form of democracy should be implemented for each community mod team. Of course, this should be built in a way as to prevent, or at the very least limit, voter fraud and hostile takeovers.
There could be limits set on the protocol level, like only allowing users to vote in elections on their homeserver (or allowing the homeserver admins to choose which servers' users they'll allow?). Each community could also vote (or the mods internally vote) on the requirements for voting, like: amount of time subscribed, activity level within the community, age of account, etc.
Perhaps each community could even choose the type of election/voting system. They could be for a set term, until they get voted out, or a constant approval vote where they lose their position if they piss off enough people.
Hell, if you wanted to go even further, an impeachment process could be included. Or maybe every mod action is publically available to be appealed by the community if need be and if enough actions are overturned they lose their position.
I'm really into governance structures, so people might not care for something like this, but I've spent some time writing out ideas for a Reddit alternative with heavy emphasis on governance, both community and site wide. Mainly for the purposes of preventing authoritarian behavior by mods and site admins alike. It'd be pretty cool to see Lemmy adopt things like this.
It depends on how active your homeserver's rooms are, how many federated rooms you have (and their activity levels), and how many images, videos, and files are being uploaded to your server. I would imagine that having a lot of bridges to other services would also increase the resources used.
I've looked up whether or not a Raspberry Pi could run a Matrix server, and from what I remember it seems like storage space would be the biggest issue if you have active federated rooms, or rooms with a lot of image/video posts.
From what I recall, the judge denied the request. Can't imagine what the implications would be for workers if a company successfully prevented them from quitting. One would hope that higher courts would overturn such a decision because of the 13th Amendment.