Could someone explain the criticism of BlueSky to me, i.e. that it's less decentralised? Isn't the AT Protocol set up in such a way that you could build your own social network using it, meaning you can interact with BlueSky users without being one yourself?

As I understand it, the critical flaw with Mastodon and Lemmy etc is that if I delete something on my profile it isn't guaranteed to be deleted on other servers - that is unfortunately unacceptable in the long run for most people. And account portability isn't clean, and you are at the whim of your server operator. How is it better?

Why not?

Exactly, well said chad 💪

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You’re helping!

Excellent work climate patriot 🫡🌍

Cars and personal transportation will never go away as long as our society is stable. It's better to have electric cars than fossil fuelled cars. Electric cars and good public transport can coexist.

What you're saying is that Canadian companies follow the lead of American companies, and that all lack integrity regardless of which country they come from.

I agree that the world needs to get over its reliance on America. I also believe that you need to take stock of where you're currently at and work from there.

I was wondering the same thing, thanks for the stats.

We could get into the nitty gritty and determine how many chickens an average person eats etc, and maybe we'd find that they're actually growing at a reasonable rate in comparison to one another, but at first glance these numbers do suggest that we're killing animals at an accelerating rate.

I'm not vegan but I've greatly reduced my meat intake in the past few years, I only really eat it when I'm out and about. This decision was party made because I care about the environment, but this definitely is not the case for many people, so how could they be convinced? A mass marketing campaign aimed at disgusting them?

Thank you for the explanation, I need to look at the ideas more closely and understand the differences between them.

I do find it strange that these network states don't explain how classic issues like climate change or equality would come into play. In fact, it's funny that the Network State book doesn't acknowledge what happens to differently abled or disadvantaged individuals. I guess the easy answer is that they simply don't care!

So what you're saying is that if companies can't use their fancy packaging, they'll have a smaller profit margin on the actual good they're selling?

The system is very fucked!

Haha, I like your style!