Decent technologies should leverage the fall of intellectual "property".
CJDNS, IPFS, Dat, SSB, et. al. are paving a way to a parallel crisis for propertarians as Automation is paving one for proletarians / lumpen proletarians.
@fabianhjr how does automation create a crisis for the proletariat? automation will make the propertarians obsolete and liberate the proles!
@gc as long as they remain dispossessed of the means of production, specially including automated means of production, they would be increasingly pushed towards the lumpenproletariat.
@fabianhjr @gc Also proles kept out of the loop of finance, logistics, and everything that goes in the data centre. Which is why decentralisation is so important.
The workers may control the real economy, but they can do little with it if they don't control the means of information.
@h @fabianhjr agreed, power is logistic these days. which is why I think it's so frickin important that we own our servers, btw. if mastodon has slayed fb and birdsite and reigns supreme 20 years from now, it won't mean shit if all the instances are hosted on aws
@gc @fabianhjr Also making our own computers will become more relevant as unencumbered general purpose computing gear becomes increasingly difficult to find.
@fabianhjr @gc Yes, there are signs of hope, but take for example HiFive, for all their goodness, could end up becoming another Intel, or another Google, or being absorbed by some other nasty US corporation.
Just like Intel absorbed and now controls half of the FPGA market through acquisition of Altera.
Not Altera's fault, and it won't be HiFive's fault, it's the system that corrupts everything.