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"Bonfire is an open-source framework for building federated digital spaces where people can gather, interact, and form communities online." https://docs.bonfirenetworks.org/readme.html Further down the page it says it is built in Elixir with Phoenix/LiveView and PostgreSQL.
A new federated protocol? or does this provide a different front end to an existing Federated system?
These sites are easy to figure out. Go to Main Page Scroll down to go to the "Code of Conduct" Search on "Reverse" Read "Our community prioritises marginalised people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. Moderators reserve the right not to act on complaints regarding: ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia.’ or critiques of racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressiv…
bro, you posted cringe. This stuff was already edgy non-sense in 2016.
Refreshing reading. I hope we soon move to an era where this kind of initiative is the starting point. (In opposition to the make quick money model)
To scale up to a billion+ users of [whatever], it's easier if every user controls their own data (and some of 'nearby' users) on their own devices. Logically you'd need P2P between those billion+ users to make that network as a whole work.
BUT: figuring out how to do that well, is hard. Doing that in centralized manner (centralized database, users are clients only, etc) is easier. And gives maximum control to whoever starts it.
Of course scaling that means big hosting / bandwidth costs, to recoup (and profit!), enter advertising & all the bad incentives that come with it.
Like you, I hope the ad-supported everything crap is just a transitional stage, and by-the-people, for-the-people becomes the norm.
But P2P services done well is hard. The struggles of crypto coins, (truly) decentralized file sharing, and would-be FB competitors are just a few examples.
It caught my attention big time. All up until the point the word "caracul" was linked to the Zapatista movement, literally -- as in, to the Wikipedia page on Zapatista -- which, in turn says: > is a far-left political and militant group that controls a substantial amount of territory in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico.[4][5][6][7] I don't mean to preach political theory now, but as far as I can see we're al…
In Latin America, there are many communities that have suffered because of specific capitalist ventures: a banana plantation, a copper mine, etc.
You have to acknowledge these things and offer a better version of capitalism if you want diminish this divide.
I cannot figure out what Bonfire is . - The homepage has a bunch of "Bonfire is...", but they don't tell me much about how Bonfire achieves any of those goals like to be a "commons". - There's a codebase and documentation, but it comes in six different "flavours" , although I can only really differentiate between two. - Most of the FAQs just say "wip". - It proudly states that there are no ads, no tracking, etc, but…
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It caught my attention big time. All up until the point the word "caracul" was linked to the Zapatista movement, literally -- as in, to the Wikipedia page on Zapatista -- which, in turn says: > is a far-left political and militant group that controls a substantial amount of territory in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico.[4][5][6][7] I don't mean to preach political theory now, but as far as I can see we're al…
Im going to assume you're a reasonable person and have been watching some news. You probably think like I do that its good for society to follow some laws and have some checks on different groups power.
Hows that working out right now? You know without meaningful militancy on one side of the political spectrum.
Its been my experience when people ask for "politics" to be taken out of a thing they implicitly ask for the politics of the status quo. Which is domination by the commercial software industry and anything else the rich own, because they write the laws.
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then there's no money for actual maintenance beyond that say a year.
Which is fine.
It caught my attention big time. All up until the point the word "caracul" was linked to the Zapatista movement, literally -- as in, to the Wikipedia page on Zapatista -- which, in turn says: > is a far-left political and militant group that controls a substantial amount of territory in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico.[4][5][6][7] I don't mean to preach political theory now, but as far as I can see we're al…
The way I read these capitalist/anti-capitalist debates is that those for capitalism usually have an idealized version of it in their heads and those against it have some very specific issue in mind. In Latin America, there are many communities that have suffered because of specific capitalist ventures: a banana plantation, a copper mine, etc. You have to acknowledge these things and offer a better version of capital…
People are funny.