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Havent read anything from Heinlein (yet) (will join anyways) but i wanted to say its incredibly cute how you two found each other over time and platforms.

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Did anyone argue that time was the problem?

They provide you housing, food, and a job.

… thats not socialism. Dont get me wrong, im all on favour of everyone getting those things, in fact im a socialist as well. But socialism is about overthrowing relationships, not “getting free stuff”. The “free stuff” (from a capitalist perspective) is a result of overthrown relationships.

They allow literally any race, religion, socioeconomic or ethnic group to join.

And what happens to these people? Ask the afghans that were left behind or the victims of rampant rape culture.
My point is that a meat grinder does meat grinder things. By not discriminating when joining, but not caring from whence the blood flows.

It is successful at almost everything it does

Again, Afghanistan (or more generally, citation needed). Also what does this have to do with the topic?

They are willing to commit exteme acts of violence to protect you and each other.

Thats like… a bad thing. You do realize this, right? Also, again, how is this relevant for the topic? Socialism isnt some kind of virtue ethics thing.

If society creates something great (Canadian made night vision optics with thermal outlines or a better rifle design like the Austrian SIG Sauer MCX) it will be shared with by everyone equally.

Sorry, i dont get your point.

No they arent? Thats literally the defining feature of socialism. What are you basing your claim on?

I know the argument for it being socialist but I really dont think its true. Government services arent ‘inherently’ socialist. And its more of an opportunistic mincer than some “diverse organization”.

Iirc, its also the case for skyrim on steam (though not sure which edition). So its not something new fot Bethesda.

Great work!

There are several levels to this. First, the actual software. In the Fediverse (simply the agglomeration of software that can interact through a common protocol called Activitypub) there are several solutions that offer a Reddit like experience. Kbin and Lemmy are the ones we focus on for now. Its different software with similar goals that can interact with each other.
Now, the second level is the actual server (also called instance). There is no central Kbin or Lemmy server (although the instances that are run by the developers tend to basically become that). Instead there are a lot of servers (e.g beehaw, feddit.de, lemmy.world) that run either Lemmy or Kbin. These servers can interact with each other, because their software can, this is called federation.
This brings us to the third level, the users, you and me. I have an account on Kbin.social, because thats where i went to sign up. Kbin.social runs Kbin, so I use Kbin. Same for you. Bread2390 has a sh.itjust.works account, which runs Lemmy, as far as i know. So they are on a different server (instance) with a different software (lemmy) but we can interact just fine because of federation.

Now, all of this sounds complicated and kinda is, but in your interaction you didnt even notice that they are on a different server running different software. But if kbin.social went down, or tge software kbin would somehow turn to shit, bread2390’s account would keep working just fine.

I hope this helped!