Humans lived in what could be described as a sort of primitive communism for most of the species history.

Basically, the society needs to be decentralized. If you can keep it sufficiently non hierarchal, there isn't a lot of power people can get over many others. A problem I see with this is defending against large, centralized, outside organizations. So, I guess you'd need some federation-like structures. Some communes are pretty democratic and decentralized. The Zapitista territories are the best example I know of, of a large non-hierarchal federation of communities.

Small local businesses fuck over their employees too. Capitalism incentives it. It also incentives monopolies. And it seems when the wealth disparity gets large enough, it captures government and starts transforming into fascism.

You can short gold ETFs. Gold is highly speculative and has crashed taking decades to recover (~1980-2005). It's basically boomer-bitcoin.

I think Jay-Z funded part of it; not sure if he's still involved or not... Looks like Block owns the vast majority of it now, and they're a particularly shady and shitty enterprise as well.

The Fediverse is social media. Wouldn't instances be required to do age verification? I mean, I guess that'd only be enforceable on Australian instances, but it seems like the whole world is going in that direction.

Already exists (Ramble). It's just pretty dead.

It may be possible to federate with other i2p instances, if not, I'm guessing it would require fairly simple code changes to lemmy to be able to point to other .i2p addresses.

To federate with clearnet, I think an instance would need to kind of act like a bridge that uses both clearnet and i2p; so it wouldn't be "hidden." I see there is also an exit node network (ran by StormyCloud) on i2p now, but that may be too slow for federation.

Edit: I imagine most clearnet instances would not want to federate with a darknet instance due to the higher probability of illegal content being posted.

They usually just release homeless people charged with petty crimes after the first hearing (24-48 hours) without bail. They can't pay fines, for commissary, phone calls, and all that; or work, so they're not profitable.

I think there are probably enough collectors, AV nerds, and people without consistent high bandwidth unlimited internet to keep physical going for a while. It'll just be niche, like vinyl, I suppose.

It is kinda weird that optical stopped advancing. You can fit more data on a MicroSD card than BluRay. You can fit something like 240 blurays on a consumer HDD (and much more if you further compress).

I think the situation in Appalachia is more about poverty and hopelessness than structure and identity. I.e. "shit-life syndrome." Community is a big one too, but that's already severely lacking in most of the modern world.

What I personally think will happen is that wages will get driven so far down where it doesn't make sense for the capitalists to automate. I.e. global south-like living conditions and slavery. The capital owners will not let go of their power or support anything like decent UBI/USI. They'll opt for company-towns and "charity" that serves their purposes.

It's fair to think that automation will continue to improve. I imagine it will improve quite a bit in the next 20 years. There may even be breakthroughs in that time that result in AGI or ASI.

Port forward/poke holes in firewall + dynamic DNS.