Cowbee [he/him]

Dumber than a box of rocks.

Enshittification. Youtube is always going to get worse as long as it exists to make money.

“How dare you protest genocide. The majority of our employees shut the fuck up about us supporting genocide, get in line or get cut.”

Traditional engineering areas can’t be as easily automated. Certain aspects certainly can, but prototyping usually involves physical presence, as well as installation or testing.

Paradox of tolerance and all that. You want a tolerant site? Can’t allow Nazis.

Secondly, there was a wave of banning of leftists and journalists recently, it’s very much only free speech for the right there.

What is “fully-capitalist hardware?”

Linus’ power doesn’t come from Ownership, but respect. Anyone can fork it and do what they want, but because Linus is respected, everyone else follows suit.

Anarchism would function in a similar manner, it wouldn’t be a bunch of opinionated people doing whatever they want, but people generally listening to experts who don’t actually hold systemic power.