Hey y’all! Thanks for taking the time to share your technical and philosophical knowledge!

I think I fall prey early on to making too much of marketing claims like ‘all platforms can speak to each other’ for the Fediverse. Now, I understand better that the platform-tech might be friendly with each other, but do not necessarily have to use the same slang.

my dilemma is that I truly appreciate grassroot/self-governed/community places – but then again: network effects network effects network effects are the only way to get people to switch.

Bottomline is that this is a dilemma as old as the fediverse. Thanks for thinking along,

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While it‘s obvious that one income alone won‘t feed a family anymore, our culture pushed multiple-job-holding even further by normalizing several income streams and especially gig-work. A gym nearby now advertises „earn 1€ per workout“, which is effectively just a discount, but gives you the feeling of actual profit