# 2019-02-24T22:34:21+0000
How do we get past platforms?
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_or how I stopped worrying and loved the corp_
This was supposed to be a serious article in which I give a solution,
but the more I've written I realised that I was playing myself and would
return at any other bullshit solution I accuse others of, that is why
the ending is that different from the start, as I do not think lying and
accepting rules of the academic style is fair or unchanging. If you find
my opinions funny, fine. Some ideas can only work in irony.
We all know platforms - Youtube, Facebook, Bandcamp, Soundcloud,
etc. etc. The problems with them are boundless: centralisation and all
the power coming from it, changing your own creations, and all things
extending from them. But are they necessary evil? They have arisen from
the platformless-y internet, we still had usenet forums, Geocities,
and other somewhat centralised solutions.
I have a problem of modern solutions - federations (look Mastodon, Matrix,
etc.) or some absurd chaos solution, which mixes all elements and tries to
cache data, then setup peer 2 peer service, reconnect to the blockchain,
off-grid protocol for analysing content-addressed webscale method shader
TOR over XMPP distributed browser framework[0], non-tech explanation
for the end user will take half an hour and it will only work with the
most risk taking group. This is why I hate term decentralisation, or
federalisation, or anything which seems to solve this problem using a
term. If someone asks me for terms, I just go to bullshit generator[0]
and they always convince anyone of my opinion of those things.
The first problem we need to overcome is that people don't react to
change well. They react well to fast browsers and good feedback... (here
I realised on how absurd this writing will be, in the best case scenario
it would be rambling how people are dumb, or giving another weak solution)
this `thinkpiece' can only go pessimistic route, and only reconfirm that
bogdanovs are winning and we are just playing ourselves and in the best
case they just will have to change strategy anyway
as if they are not doing this with this beatiful libertarian dream
of blockchain, which just works great in pump and dump schemes and it
also a good way to control your corporations investments. also can't
wait when actual currency will be called credits and everything will be
ledger that will be only public to corporations and husks of governments
and their agencies working for coporations
capitalism fucking sucks and no web utopias you dumbass welcome to the
true deep ecology where nuking saves everything
no bullshit balancing systems theory, watch All Watched Over By Machines
of Loving Grace by Adam Curtis[1] if you believe this self-confirming
nonsense about cybernetics or technology[1]. in short nothing is balanced,
the situation is excellent. this how world works, world is not balanced
input/output systemd controller, if we don't know how to predict weather
let's not speak of predicting human behaviours in capitalism as if they
were rational
I think I was right in my past phlog post, it is the right place, as
here corpses simply do not care about us. We are not really free, but
at least we have a place where we are not coerced at every moment. Do
what you want, be this beautiful Randian (anti-)hero trying to become a
billionaire/destroyer of the world/professional eater of pizza.
to end on optimistic note. chaos will last forever, it will just ascend
to other levels and may be understood. My most optimistic part suggests
that it will be understood as it has to be understood, but maybe by other
humanity, other civilisation, but why should we take the pride for that
if it was necessary anyway. maybe it was already done, and speaking of
platforms - just use whatever you prefer from technical reasons. Cause
political reasons are as unreasonable as the politics we live in. I
prefer **this**
0:
http://bullshit.aiju.de/
1:
https://thoughtmaybe.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace
