Hayley566

Socialism/communism/Marxism refer to a collection of ideas. Because of this, one person could be "more socialist" than another person depending on how deep into the type of mindset they are. After all, we often look back into history and contemplate on how certain things sound socialist. The philosopher Seneca was quite close to the mark, advocating for the eradication of money, before Emperor Nero had him killed. Charles Dickens has been celebrated as holding the spark of a socialist because he wrote A Christmas Carol which has three ghosts telling an old man he will go to Hell if he doesn't become less greedy. Certain monarchs were known to use the "from each their ability to each their needs" philosophy to reserve certain jobs for certain people based on their skill, which is how we ended up with ancient stereotypes of blind musicians, deaf painters, and people with mental difficulties becoming the monarch's personal court comedians. And then there is Genghis Khan, who enforced the socialist-esque yassa by destroying whole nations.

If Charles Dickens, Genghis Khan, and the philosopher Seneca lived in the 1970's, they would all be tried for socialism. Hell, the man who wrote Fiddler on the Roof just barely got away scott-free just because his play had Russian peasants as characters. What about you would bring you the closest to being a victim of the red scare?

Suppose I am thinking of a website. I might think to myself "this would be great to have in the fediverse" (the last time I thought this was with Neopets, as I was joking that still being HTML was their way of waiting 20 years for the fediverse to be invented). But unless you have some kind of third party linking technology, I am aware there are limitations in a website's code. But you can't simply take a glance at a website and know if it's compatible, right? Is there a way to know without having to constantly ask admins and take their word? What sites would you want to join the fediverse if you could inspire it?

Speaking of third party software or tech, can they join? I hear the Hypothesis toolbar is quite popular as a third party feature and might be good for this thought experiment.

Popular sites tend to have them, ones you can customize to do whatever you want. Reddit's and Discord's are famous. People will commission them for money. Reddit's haiku bot and their remind-me bot are famous even outside of Reddit. Discord's most famous ones include the Pokemon-themed "Poketwo" bot and the now-defunct clyde bot.

The idea of the fediverse is that websites can join a league of nations type of organization that keeps the membership up and allow meta-interaction in return for cooperation, right? Wouldn't the absence of bots come across as highly ironic given their utility with communicating across digital borders? Is making bots not possible, or is it just not favorable here (again, ironic)? I imagine certain bots could even establish communications with outside the fediverse, making a meta-fediverse.