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🧱 We should be federating with as many instances as possible. Why limit our posting. I joined HexBear before the subreddit was banned and have barely logged on after a couple of months because it was just very limited in terms of non-political posting.
The other aspect that we forget is that r/cth was a massive influence for people to move left. The subreddit grew substantially and exponentially from a small group of posters to a massive subreddit.
Some of the best posts were people wandering in and getting dunked on. If we have the ability to just push a few people left that is massive.
Also access to more active hobby forums from the same instance would be much appreciated. Especially programming focused ones. The one nice thing about Reddit, as awful as it was, was the fact that you could get everything in one place. I could choose what I wanted in my feed without having to leave the site. It would be nice to have that back and not need to maintain multiple accounts on multiple instances
It 1000% has to do with companies forcing people back into offices. People literally saw how much better their lives were not having to commute and then all of the pandemic gains being undone right before their eyes.
I would personally want to federate with everyone and maintain a blacklist as necessary. The post by bruja is at least what we should do as a minimum. I joined here when the chapo subreddit was banned but stopped using it due to the limited amount of non-political content. It would be nice to be able to federate with other instances to see other content in the same feed.
I mean not really I don’t see it any differently than reading a book of someone who died. Should we not publish books of authors who died. The students would ask questions to the current professor/TA teaching the class. The implications on the labor value are essentially nonexistent. You can’t pay a corpse and I assume there is still someone running/teaching the class that would get paid to do so. The living person’s labor is getting compensated. Whether or not the widow or next of kin should also be compensated for using their family member’s teaching material is a separate question relating to the ownership of work. In a capitalist society the university owns his work. In a socialist society I think there could be a legitimate debate on who owns the work of the dead. If it’s the family would all the descendants be paid indefinitely for the work and how is that different from a bourgeoisie class? I think your issue is really with capitalism in general. There’s really nothing wrong with this and in a socialist society I don’t see how it would really play out differently.
I mean now you’re getting into the fact that they’re charging for them and who owned them. Which is separate from the conversation of whether or not the lectures are being used. Unironically under capitalism the university would own them because they are his employer. Whether that’s right or wrong is a separate question. Charging for college is just a feature of living in America they’re are places where college is free. Even in a socialist society I think a university or whatever ends up replacing the university system should be able to use lectures to teach students regardless of where they came from. Knowledge is knowledge.
Nah this isn’t really bad. It’s just watching the lectures of someone who died. If anything it’s very good. I’m sure someone that’s a professor would be happy that their knowledge lives beyond them. You don’t just discard someone’s work and knowledge because they die.
