Dessalines @ dessalines @lemmy.ml

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Indigenous societies have largely industrialized in nearly all the world. Take nearly any country (except the USA, Canada, and Australia, western colonial projects), and you'll find ethnic peoples from those areas with an industrial mode of production.

From what I can tell, they're doing the anarchist nostalgic idealization / fetishization of the past. Usually goes along with idealizing poverty, defeat, and religious "self-sacrifice", on the terms that this is more "pure" and moral than the modern day with its modern production methods, science, technology, and gasp ability to feed millions of people with labor-saving technology.

When indigenous peoples do start taking up the mantle and uplifting themselves out of poverty by industrializing (Vietnam, China, DPRK, etc), then these same anarchists denounce them for the "betrayal".

They’re asking for donations because they lost the donations they were already getting.

Nope, not even the tiniest bit. We know how vital lemmy is, and want to secure its long-term future by being entirely sustained by donations. We never at any point reached that goal, and given that nutomic had a new baby, this is more important now than ever.

hemorrhaging donation money

I have no idea what this means. We're paying our daily living expenses so we can comfortably work on lemmy without having to find other work. The costs are food and rent.

this whole operation is a way too flimsy if it’s depending on these two people, alone, forever.

I'd love to be able to grow our co-op, and add more developers! Donations make that possible too, especially if they exceed 2 average dev salaries (we're a long way off from that).

What happens if they finally get another developer that really knows Rust and wants to join the project but doesn’t “fit in”? How are they actually going to expand the team so this project can grow and not be so dependent on them when they have the reputation they do?

It's clear you've never tried, because we've never and would never reject code contributers for petty reasons like "not fitting in". If ppl don't want to work with communists, that's on them. Personally I'd never reject someone for their ideology, especially if what they're doing is FOSS, which serves the common good.

I would like to see this platform expand beyond them,

We don't stop people from forking lemmy and never would, that's entirely their right.

For most of human history (tribal / pre-agricultural societies), markets were rare and mostly unecessary. Small groups of people survived by foraging / hunting for food and sharing it among themselves. Usually elders, or some type of communal decision-making process was how food was distributed. Sharing, not trade, was the distribution system.

You can have some trade in tribal / feudal societies, but it isn't the most common way that goods are distributed.

Feudalism also employed some industrial machinery (water wheels for milling grain is one example). But the primary energy source was still muscle power, the primary product was agricultural produce, and the workers were peasants tied to the land, not mobile wage workers producing consumer goods.

Marxists consider these important distinctions that define entire historical periods, even if they're still both examples of class society.

Imperialism can occur in any class society. In its most general definition, it means the theft of land, labor, and resources of a weaker country to feed a stronger one. So we do call it "Roman imperialism":

The surplus here is an agricultural one.

Imperialism takes a different shape under capitalism, where instead of a landed aristocracy / slave-owning class doing the colonizing, its finance capitalists in the imperial core exporting production to low-wage / underdeveloped countries to produce commodities cheaply.

Also, the surplus in nearly all the periods of ancient Rome, was still largely an agrarian surplus, extracted either from slaves, or from feudal workers / colonates in the territories outside the city.

The city / empire survived not by its own products and a commodity-producing economy, but by feeding an agrarian surplus off its many colonies.

Western supremacists tend to use "Authoritarian" only to demonize the countries that stood up and fought back against colonialism / imperialism.

And it usually is never directed against the actually non-democratic / oligarchical countries like the US, who've bombed and meddled with nearly every government on the planet.

You should question your preconceived notions about China, Vietnam, Cuba, and the USSR, because you likely grew up in a country that has spent the entire historical period of the cold war, trying to strangle those countries and many others out of existence.

K this one is yours, but you have a lot of communities already, and don't seem to be posting anything.

K this one is yours.

You don't have any posts there, and it seems like you're collecting communities just to have them.

Based on the feedback here, I've changed the PR to have Show be the default, and its been merged.

ShowForOthers is still an option, just not the default.

They do, but also donations are still entirely optional. We're a soup kitchen providing a free meal; if people don't want to eat the soup, or eat it but don't want to (or aren't able) to support the kitchen, that's not a problem.

I personally wouldn't be against migrating our issue tracker off github in the future, especially once the federated alternatives become more mature. The other code contributers would also need to agree though.

We also have the code mirrored in several places off github.

In the matrix dev chats, but we could also post them elsewhere.

Could you open up an issue on lemmy-ui about this? Thx.

Absolutely, lemmy could use so much more dev help.

Thanks! Yep its been a lot of years of work to get it to this level, but it still astonishes me that a handful of ppl can best reddit / twitter when we put our minds to it.

dev here, glad you like!

We always put out calls before (major) releases, but very few ppl actually help test. This means a lot of bugs only get spotted when more eyes see them in production.

All of these issues are solved in the corporate world by paying quality assurance / testing teams, but open source projects don't have those resources.