Are you the original author? If so, thanks, I enjoyed the post! It made me think. I've subscribed to the RSS feed but it returns 404 for me FYI.
My main questions is, what does platform cooperative provide that is not already provided by open standards, and do you think that governance should be tied to the protocol, or exist below it at the instance and/or software implementation level?
I think that democratic processes should exist where this is power imbalance, exploitation and no safety release valve that lets the vulnerable people freely step away. E.g., we have democracy to prevent authoritarian rule, and because it's hard to move country. We have workers co-ops and unions to prevent the power imbalance between bosses, customers and workers.
So, a co-op of taxi drivers makes sense to me, because all of those conditions exist: Uber is dominant, they own the two-sided market so it's more difficult for customers or drivers leave, and the drivers are exploited because they have few alternatives.
But, don't open source and open standards provide safety release valves that prevent such exploitation? At every layer of the stack, you can choose to swap out a part, be it client, server, instance, etc. You can choose to engage in the standards process, or you can build your own software that doesn't completely follow the rules if you want, and still take part in the network. Who is being exploited in this environment, when there are ways to jump ship from any of these?
Of course, open standards are vulnerable to capture by big players, since the user count determines your influence over the network. But, is that really a big problem? You still get the tools to build your own pocket of the network with like-minded people, like what we're doing on the fediverse now. You can still convince people to leave through argument, persuasion, freedom of association and making it easier for them to jump ship without losing everything.
On the fediverse, we already have co-ops where each user gets a stake in the rules, moderation, etc. We also have instances that are run as more of a benevolent dictatorship, but where everyone is there freely. We have single-user instances too. To me, this is the best of all worlds, because everyone can choose the governance model that suits them, and we can all co-operate together.
This is where my opinion depends on what you're arguing for. Is your suggestion to tie the governance to the protocol itself, or to push for more co-operatively run instances and software? If the latter, I'm all for it :) but if it's the former, to me that's a step backward, because we're placing a checkpoint on who can join the network that removes the safety release valves and pushes people into a democratic system that they might not agree with.
Open source is about who can see the code. Federation is about who owns the network. Cooperativism is about who holds the keys.
For me, this the essence of the argument. But I'm not quite sure what the keys are to: what power and influence do they unlock? Open source makes sense to me because the people doing the work have a say in what's happening. I'm nervous to give power to users, who are not doing work, over volunteers, who are doing work. But then, when there is funding involved, I think that naturally leads to more users having more influence, because they can always take it away if their priorities are not met. See Snowdrift Co-op for instance. To me, the biggest solution is finding a way to fund open source projects directly from users.
I think music fulfills multiple roles. I listen to music as:
Background music to help me foucs
Gym/running music to pump me up
Something that sounds nice - that's surprising, has good production, has nice hooks
A way to unlock or enhance a certain emotion or feel an emotional connection with the artist because they are being vulnerable and showing something about themselves
It makes sense to me that AI would more easily fulfill the earlier ones and that the later ones might therefore become more valuable. The earlier ones are about being inoffensive, while the later put a premium on being surprising, risky and bold.
I think that we will adapt what we find valuable, in the same way as artists now make most of their income from touring, whereas in the past it was flipped and most income would come from CDs, while the tours would be for promotion.
I have a lot of search shortcuts configured in Firefox, and find vertical search is a good way of avoiding google.
Wikipedia, Wikidata: for factual things, finding links to homepages of brands or well-known venues, macros of ingredients.
Wiktionary: for definitions.
OpenStreetMap: for physical locations, to get opening hours or websites of physical shops.
OpenStreetMap Wiki, PostmarketOS Wiki, Debian Wiki, Guile Mailing List Archives: if you can find a wiki, forum or mailing list dedicated to your special interest, then searching these directly can be pretty good.
Lemmy: for recommendations, general opinions, looking for negative opinions about services before I try them.
Podcast Index: I used to use Apple Podcast's website to find the canonical RSS feed for a podcast, but someone on Lemmy pointed me to this website, which is more independent.
Marginalia: for recipes, especially with the no javascript filter enabled, just by typing in the names of some ingredients I want to use, I'll find all sorts of weird and wonderful webpages with nice recipes on.
Repology: to look for software packages.
And then, for general searches, I normally start off with Marginalia, followed by SearXNG, followed by DuckDuckGo if desperate.
Who decides what goes on that list? How do you ensure measurement/enforcement of these rules is accurate and fair? How do you prevent takeover of whatever body manages/enforces this list by people with bad intentions?
I would love it if people who disagreed with my fundamental beliefs weren't allowed to vote too, but I think it's the wrong level to attack the problem. You have to have a political debate and bring people on side instead. Otherwise, why do we have a democracy anyway?
I thought it was a good race. The period while the leaders were stuck behind Hadjar (and lapping backmarkers, if I remember rightly?) was pretty tense. The Piastri collision was such a shame, it would've been great for the race if he'd have been ahead and Norris would've had to overtake on track.
I was shouting at my TV a couple of times. One when Piastri had the collision with the Williams in the picture-in-picture and it didn't get picked up on commentary until the replay. The other was that fact that they showed the coming out of the pits / safety car line before playing the team radio, so the commentators were treating it as "ohh, that was really close!" before realising it was in reference to a possible infringement. Not major things really, but it's a shame when it feels like I know what's going on more than the commentators for a brief period.
I actually want that. Not so I can chat to the AI, but so that everyone else who is forced into the office so that they can be on a call with their teammates in other regions don't distract me, and vice versa. I have noise cancelling headphones, but even they aren't enough.
I used to have stomach issues in uni when I was eating a lot more bread. I never really did anything about it, but it seems to have died down now as my diet naturally changed. I'd never heard of an elimination diet before so that makes sense to narrow down exactly what's causing it.
It's really fascinating how the same combinations of food can affect people in such different ways.
Yeah, I can't see how any of this setup makes any sense. Even if she's paid hourly, it must be absolutely mind-numbing. Do you just have to sit next to the boat, waiting for a call at all times that might never come?
Prosody for me. I set it up over 2 years ago, and the only time I touched it was when updating to the latest Debian stable and enabling some new features in the config files. It's been rock-solid and just worked without complaint.
I'm pretty good at Mario Kart. I hadn't played it for about 10 years, but I beat all my friends when I played Mario Kart World for the first time with them recently.
The main part is the party's support for so-called "remigration", which is
ethnic cleansing[1] via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including native-born citizens, to their place of racial ancestry
Markus Allard initiated heavy debate in 2025 by claiming that Sweden is "the land for/belongs to the Swedes" and that the Örebro party favors a large scale remigration policy. He also criticized the Sweden Democrats for, according to him, allowing too many immigrants into the country under their watch as confidence and supply to the Kristersson cabinet.
In 2026 ÖP party leader Markus Allard sparked controversy on several occasions. In a debate hosted by Studio3 with Liberal member of parliament Martin Melin, Allard asked: "why won't the Liberals push for deporting 100 000 social welfare-Somalis?" and in the same debate said that "Sweden belongs to the Swedes. We have to make sure that we take care of our own damn people and we must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense." [45]
In a podcast segment about immigration and deportations Allard stated his opinion and said that "They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish." [46]
In a podcast in May 2026 Allard clarifies some positions that his party holds and among other things made clear that leaving the EU and NATO were on the table for ÖP. Regarding NATO Allard claimed that Sweden cannot trust or rely on NATO and that the country should instead seek to massively increase its weapons production and also become a major arms exporter, arguing it would benefit the Swedish economy.[47][48]
Seconding this. For anyone interested in wider discussion of the difference in attitude between whether it was a mistake at the time, vs what we should do now, this was discussed in more detail on the opinion brief podcast by the polling org more in common.
Support for the status quo when it comes to our relationship with the EU is highly correlated with how the economy is doing
When we were in the EU, support for membership was high when the economy was doing well, and low when the economy was doing badly
Now that we are out, it's flipped: support for membership is lower when the economy is doing better, and higher when the economy is doing badly
There's a similar correlation between how insecure the world feels / how scared the public feels and our positive attitudes towards membership of the EU
Rejoin / stay out is ~2:1 in favour of rejoin. However, this probably wouldn't be robust if another referendum actually happened:
"applicant status is supplicant status". By rejoining, EU would give a list of requirements and then say "call us once these are done".
It's very one-sided, would make the leaving process look like a battle between equals in comparison
This would be quite politically toxic. So, public opinion would likely shift in a sceptical direction in any debate.
This eurosceptic shift is seen in most countries that join the EU, so you need a massive level of support to begin with
Although the UK could use the same Euro trick as Poland and Sweden, where they say: "yes, we'll definitely take the Euro at some point, just not for the forseeable future", this argument could only come after the negotiations - everyone would have to pretend that we're really serious about taking the Euro while negotiating, which would be politically toxic
No politician is going to start negotiations with the EU. Negotiations take 5+ years - any significant economic benefits would come after 10+ years. In the meantime you cost yourself significant political capital pushing it through
Some other interesting discussions:
Rise in populist parties is because UK politicians no longer have an easy group to blame whatever goes wrong on. UK voters are voting against the status quo as a protest vote because they're still unhappy
Leave campaign's success came from tying membership in the EU (which no-one really cared about) to immigration (which many voters cared about). Now, that same tying of immigration to a relatively settled topic on the right is happening with the ECHR
If we leave the ECHR, we effectively get a no deal brexit. The EU would be at liberty to rip up all our trading agreements, because they're contingent on membership of the ECHR
The Remain campaign really badly interpreted the results from the Scottish referendum. Yes, they won the referendum, but during the process, support for leaving the UK went from 25% to 45%. Euroscepticism started almost neck-and-neck before the referendum campaigning began
Hi, I'm choosing this comment to reply to everyone at once, since there's a lot of overlap in the comments.
I'm sorry for not following the etiquette of the community. I've updated the post to contain a blurb to explain why I liked the article. I hope it's ok but if there are any problems I'm happy to amend it or change the focus of the blurb.
I was careful to check the rules before posting, and in all other communities I actively participate in, link-only posts are completely fine, so I didn't even stop to think it could be a problem. I now appreciate that this is not the followed norm of this community though. I can see that it could be easily misinterpreted as self-promotion, since I didn't state I wasn't the authour of the post. I have subscribed to this community for a while and made a couple of comments, but this is my first post here and with the posts mixed in the rest of the feed, I guess I didn't build a good sense of the unwritten norms of the community.
I am not the authour of the blog post. This is the personal blog post of someone who works for the Sovereign Tech Agency. I appreciate their posts because they took a very thoughtful approach to why they are self-hosting certain things. Their technical approach is an extension of the "why" they are doing it and this is very clearly and explicitly laid out. This is something I quite like, and at least in the blogs I follow, relatively unique.
I am based in the UK. I always catch up on my RSS feeds before i go to bed, and if I see something interesting, I tend to share it on lemmy. I only woke up again now because of the heatwave here! Another lesson learned, if posting to this community again, do it while I'm available for the next few hours.
My partner plays games on steam and uses my old gaming PC, running Bazzite and unfortunately with an nvidia GPU. Some games like The Last of Us II has lots of graphical glitches and we have to play around with the steam launch settings a lot.
It'd be awesome to buy a plug-and-play solution as I never know when there are issues with our PC whether it's to do with our specific setup, or the game's linux support in general.
As it stands we'll probably look to get an AMD GPU when we can afford it. Which I think will be in quite a while.
Are you the original author? If so, thanks, I enjoyed the post! It made me think. I've subscribed to the RSS feed but it returns 404 for me FYI.
My main questions is, what does platform cooperative provide that is not already provided by open standards, and do you think that governance should be tied to the protocol, or exist below it at the instance and/or software implementation level?
I think that democratic processes should exist where this is power imbalance, exploitation and no safety release valve that lets the vulnerable people freely step away. E.g., we have democracy to prevent authoritarian rule, and because it's hard to move country. We have workers co-ops and unions to prevent the power imbalance between bosses, customers and workers.
So, a co-op of taxi drivers makes sense to me, because all of those conditions exist: Uber is dominant, they own the two-sided market so it's more difficult for customers or drivers leave, and the drivers are exploited because they have few alternatives.
But, don't open source and open standards provide safety release valves that prevent such exploitation? At every layer of the stack, you can choose to swap out a part, be it client, server, instance, etc. You can choose to engage in the standards process, or you can build your own software that doesn't completely follow the rules if you want, and still take part in the network. Who is being exploited in this environment, when there are ways to jump ship from any of these?
Of course, open standards are vulnerable to capture by big players, since the user count determines your influence over the network. But, is that really a big problem? You still get the tools to build your own pocket of the network with like-minded people, like what we're doing on the fediverse now. You can still convince people to leave through argument, persuasion, freedom of association and making it easier for them to jump ship without losing everything.
On the fediverse, we already have co-ops where each user gets a stake in the rules, moderation, etc. We also have instances that are run as more of a benevolent dictatorship, but where everyone is there freely. We have single-user instances too. To me, this is the best of all worlds, because everyone can choose the governance model that suits them, and we can all co-operate together.
This is where my opinion depends on what you're arguing for. Is your suggestion to tie the governance to the protocol itself, or to push for more co-operatively run instances and software? If the latter, I'm all for it :) but if it's the former, to me that's a step backward, because we're placing a checkpoint on who can join the network that removes the safety release valves and pushes people into a democratic system that they might not agree with.
For me, this the essence of the argument. But I'm not quite sure what the keys are to: what power and influence do they unlock? Open source makes sense to me because the people doing the work have a say in what's happening. I'm nervous to give power to users, who are not doing work, over volunteers, who are doing work. But then, when there is funding involved, I think that naturally leads to more users having more influence, because they can always take it away if their priorities are not met. See Snowdrift Co-op for instance. To me, the biggest solution is finding a way to fund open source projects directly from users.
I think music fulfills multiple roles. I listen to music as:
It makes sense to me that AI would more easily fulfill the earlier ones and that the later ones might therefore become more valuable. The earlier ones are about being inoffensive, while the later put a premium on being surprising, risky and bold.
I think that we will adapt what we find valuable, in the same way as artists now make most of their income from touring, whereas in the past it was flipped and most income would come from CDs, while the tours would be for promotion.
I have a lot of search shortcuts configured in Firefox, and find vertical search is a good way of avoiding google.
And then, for general searches, I normally start off with Marginalia, followed by SearXNG, followed by DuckDuckGo if desperate.
Who decides what goes on that list? How do you ensure measurement/enforcement of these rules is accurate and fair? How do you prevent takeover of whatever body manages/enforces this list by people with bad intentions?
I would love it if people who disagreed with my fundamental beliefs weren't allowed to vote too, but I think it's the wrong level to attack the problem. You have to have a political debate and bring people on side instead. Otherwise, why do we have a democracy anyway?
I thought it was a good race. The period while the leaders were stuck behind Hadjar (and lapping backmarkers, if I remember rightly?) was pretty tense. The Piastri collision was such a shame, it would've been great for the race if he'd have been ahead and Norris would've had to overtake on track.
I was shouting at my TV a couple of times. One when Piastri had the collision with the Williams in the picture-in-picture and it didn't get picked up on commentary until the replay. The other was that fact that they showed the coming out of the pits / safety car line before playing the team radio, so the commentators were treating it as "ohh, that was really close!" before realising it was in reference to a possible infringement. Not major things really, but it's a shame when it feels like I know what's going on more than the commentators for a brief period.
I actually want that. Not so I can chat to the AI, but so that everyone else who is forced into the office so that they can be on a call with their teammates in other regions don't distract me, and vice versa. I have noise cancelling headphones, but even they aren't enough.
The Sam+Amy montage was really funny and well edited.
goodbye
Wow! Thanks for such a great reply!
I used to have stomach issues in uni when I was eating a lot more bread. I never really did anything about it, but it seems to have died down now as my diet naturally changed. I'd never heard of an elimination diet before so that makes sense to narrow down exactly what's causing it.
It's really fascinating how the same combinations of food can affect people in such different ways.
Do you have any tips for handling both stomach and exit pain? I always find that to be the tricky part.
That whole section had me cracking up, especially when the boat actually appeared round the corner.
Wonderful storytelling and buildup to that happening and the jeopardy of maybe needing to leave the state challenge-less.
Yeah, I can't see how any of this setup makes any sense. Even if she's paid hourly, it must be absolutely mind-numbing. Do you just have to sit next to the boat, waiting for a call at all times that might never come?
Prosody for me. I set it up over 2 years ago, and the only time I touched it was when updating to the latest Debian stable and enabling some new features in the config files. It's been rock-solid and just worked without complaint.
I'm pretty good at Mario Kart. I hadn't played it for about 10 years, but I beat all my friends when I played Mario Kart World for the first time with them recently.
It's no problem for the Ben Man
I'll represent the Linux contingent of Lemmy with my Librem 5, running Mobian
The main part is the party's support for so-called "remigration", which is
About the immigration policy of the party:
About the foreign policy of the party:
Seconding this. For anyone interested in wider discussion of the difference in attitude between whether it was a mistake at the time, vs what we should do now, this was discussed in more detail on the opinion brief podcast by the polling org more in common.
Direct podcast link. Brexit discussion starts at 34:31 and ends at 1:01:43.
Some notes:
Some other interesting discussions:
Hi, I'm choosing this comment to reply to everyone at once, since there's a lot of overlap in the comments.
I'm sorry for not following the etiquette of the community. I've updated the post to contain a blurb to explain why I liked the article. I hope it's ok but if there are any problems I'm happy to amend it or change the focus of the blurb.
I was careful to check the rules before posting, and in all other communities I actively participate in, link-only posts are completely fine, so I didn't even stop to think it could be a problem. I now appreciate that this is not the followed norm of this community though. I can see that it could be easily misinterpreted as self-promotion, since I didn't state I wasn't the authour of the post. I have subscribed to this community for a while and made a couple of comments, but this is my first post here and with the posts mixed in the rest of the feed, I guess I didn't build a good sense of the unwritten norms of the community.
I am not the authour of the blog post. This is the personal blog post of someone who works for the Sovereign Tech Agency. I appreciate their posts because they took a very thoughtful approach to why they are self-hosting certain things. Their technical approach is an extension of the "why" they are doing it and this is very clearly and explicitly laid out. This is something I quite like, and at least in the blogs I follow, relatively unique.
I am based in the UK. I always catch up on my RSS feeds before i go to bed, and if I see something interesting, I tend to share it on lemmy. I only woke up again now because of the heatwave here! Another lesson learned, if posting to this community again, do it while I'm available for the next few hours.
No, I won't. If it was cheaper, I'd consider it.
My partner plays games on steam and uses my old gaming PC, running Bazzite and unfortunately with an nvidia GPU. Some games like The Last of Us II has lots of graphical glitches and we have to play around with the steam launch settings a lot.
It'd be awesome to buy a plug-and-play solution as I never know when there are issues with our PC whether it's to do with our specific setup, or the game's linux support in general.
As it stands we'll probably look to get an AMD GPU when we can afford it. Which I think will be in quite a while.