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Propaganda

Chinese action manhua with a romantic subplot: by volume two the protagonist is married and with a healthy sex life.

Japanese Acton manga with a romantic subplot: maybe, at the end of the history, the protagonist will kiss the romantic interest.

Japan needs to learn how to make propaganda.

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If people can’t afford to do anything, then they don’t have freedom.

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OP shared a thought. I pointed this is a formal concept and pointed the name, so they can search for more. The concept describes a real and observable phenomena.

Why are you bringing moral judgement of people here? Even if poor people are guilt of their own poverty (they aren't) like you are implying, it doesn't change they are formally, but not really free. Marx description stills holds up.

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Ghost 6.0 releases next month with ActivityPub support

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Ghost is a powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members.

For me, this first paragraph from the site says clearly that they are a tool to build sites and sell content.

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Would blockchain work better for the Fediverse, instead of Email Style Instances?

No.

To have a decentralised network, you need a lot of servers storing some data and a access algorithm thar searches for the pieces. There are a lot of hard problems:

  • you need various copies because each node can go offline any moment. This works for pirated DVDs, but not for social media posts.
  • you need to store a lot of the network in each node. The user needs to contribute to the network. Few people will donate GBs of storage and bandwidth to use a social network. You will get only a few enthusiasts.
  • search is a nightmare nobody have really solved.

The architecture is good for storing and distributing many copies of a few very popular contents (and shines in torrent) but is bad for storing, searching for, and accessing many unpopular and mildly popular contents.