I see why you think that, and I agree threads sucks. But bsky is actually fully open source and they are actively working to make federation better. I do think the current leadership genuinely cares about making a federated platform.

Will they enshittify? Yes, probably when the current ceo leaves. But by then other services will have popped up, and ATproto is built in such a way that you can move services without your current service’s consent.

I agree. That’s why I’m happy it’s fully decentralised, so that by the time they try to do that, they’ll be but one player on atproto, and won’t be able to get away with it.

It is actually decentralized though? You can host your own pds and relay for pretty cheap now.

because chinese social media is so much better

Looks cool as hell ngl. I was watching gamescon live with some friends and every 10 seconds in the trailer everyone said “what??”.

Wow, didn’t think I’d see an interrobang in the wild!

clippy is better than all the awful ai junk we have now, change your pfp to clippy to protest.

Nice, hope they set up their own branding on their instance at some point

So is the rest of it lmao

The source for those is either you, quora, or the ccp.

Not very reliable sources, and the results of the polls which I do know are legitimate may be explained by the lack of free press.

Some of the stuff is true, like the better healthcare system, or high speed rail, but that’s more the US being absymally bad than china being great

And across the pond the french government spent 20bn to have the government build out fiber and now basically everyone in france has super cheap fiber internet.

Paying companies to do stuff that’s against their financial incentives doesn’t work.

Okay, my understanding is that there are classically two classes: the working class, and the bourgeoisie. Only thing I’d add is that there’s the “I own means” bourgeoisie and the “I am powerful politically” bourgeoisie. Pretty much always the same, but not necessarily.

“western” democracy improves upon this by making every person have at least some power politically, thanks to everyone being able to promote and run on ideas, this also allows local and foreign powers to amplify certain ideas, which isn’t great. Various factors make this system more or less effective at representing the people’s will.

As I understand it, the Chinese system of democracy is basically a mirage, because while you can argue it does a better job than any other dictatorship, it still is one, since the people have virtually no say on who the leaders are. I see it as something akin to a meritocracy, where an elite choose other people they deem fit to lead. In this context the CPC are no functionally no different to the bourgeoisie, they just replaced them.

The top-down governance can be good, but it also causes a lot of problems, such as the one child policy that created and still creates tons of problems and suffering.

As for Imperialism, which was mentioned earler in the thread, while the US and europe are undisputed world champions of imperialism, china also does imperialism in it’s own borders, with the western provinces.

I am certainly open to being wrong, this is just how I currently see the subject.

edit: clarification

Well, if the class in power is the one who controls the large firms, key industries and media, then the class in power are the high-ranking CCP officials, no? And ccp officials choose who the new ccp officials will be. I don’t see how the working class is involved here. I don’t really understand how the government is elected.

I don’t really want to go read a bunch of theory, because I think you should be able to leverage your clearly extensive knowledge of the subject to convince me.

…No, the point is that the initial buildout of infrastructure is easier and higher-value than renewing it, so it makes sense china has more modern infrastructure than other countries, given how recently they’ve industrialized.

~I’m not who you were replying to before.~

I agree that the chinese mixed market model is better, and that the US sucks ass, but I have one question about your claims.

PRC, the working class is the one in charge!

can you explain to me how that can be true while the government is unelected and visibly does authoritarian stuff such as censorship, violent repression of various undesireables and supression of independent worker’s unions?

Don’t want to start an argument, genuinely asking, how is china the “only hope”? If we look at certain european countries, or even canada, brazil or the drc, they run on a much larger percentage of renewables than china. China is still running 60% coal.

As for tech, china does have a lead in many technologies, but it’s not like they’re the only ones that can make good products in those categories.

No, I know why you would want search, I was asking about why you would want social features.

Why would you need those in a git server?

Yeah, but they only industrialised very recently

Mercurial?

Why? Genuinely asking, I’ve just never seen someone use it.