Hexbear makes for a very nice chill place, although myself I like lemmygrad and have stuck with them for quite a while.

Lemmygrad is good only if you are an outright pinko.

;)

So will you go from hearsay and idiotic lies or actually engage me or visit lemmygrad for yourself?

This accusation could’ve been “You’re literally from Poland.”, and it would’ve just as little ground to stand on.

Well they clearly don’t like me saying “From the river to the sea.”

So are they really against racial bigotry and discrimination?

Literally Reddit 2.0, but with a FOSS coat of paint.

Lmao, what a shithole.

Posting is not praxis.

This you?

https://hexbear.net/comment/3798924

🫡 to a real one.

May he live as long as possible.

Lmao, me gusta

Marxism isn’t some magical dogma, it’s a set of tools for analyzing the world and a vision of a better future that came from the use of these tools and the analysis they gave. Marxism-Leninism and MLM are both to an extent a use of these tools to further analyzing the world.

Without Lenin we wouldn’t have a good analysis of Imperialism and methods for theory application to the real world. Ala vanguard party and all that.

Wait. So where are my FOSS-bucks?

Boo!

You’re ugly. Brown for life.

Britons again with the most draconian laws you can possibly imagine. That wretched island has been nothing but a pile of the worst things and ideas humanity has to offer, and still it’s the “bastion of freedom” and part of the “free west”.

What a joke. At least free software alternatives that make sense and can provide anonymity and privacy could possibly be free from such a backdoor, like SimpleX or something else.

Well I wish best of luck to all Britons so that they may be safe. Especially trans people…

Something people are willing to accept for daily trade already between themselves and it’s realistic, hard cash. Otherwise if you want to really avoid the fed that bag for buying eggs you are out of luck, your choice is bartering or using teeny tiny pieces of gold. Monero would only make sense if you are performing huge transactions because of how hard it is to find a party willing to accept it. Then it’s pretty clear what you are trying to avoid also if you are performing these transactions, either taxes or the law. The latter use making Monero that tiny bit useful if there turns out an idiot stupid enough exists that would sell revolutionaries what they want for this imaginary gold.

Going back, only bartering could really make sense for normal people, I know because I’ve done so many times. Either way people and corporations (who mind you own the means of production, that’s really important here) do not even use Monero at a scale big enough for it to really be considered a serious payment method, period.

For how much I’d like it to be different it simply is not achievable for society now because of so many factors inhibiting Monero from being a sensible payment method. That’s why if a better socialist future does come, and we don’t die on nuclear flame, I’ll be one of the first to promote GNU Taler as I see it having more sense and prospects for existing. And when currency is completely abolished in a communist/anarchist society, it’s never going to make sense again.

So yeah, I’ve got nothing for a general “everything” currency that is free from central banking because it does not exist. Monero has its niche and that can be utilized, but the question I also would like to ask is:

Why is a currency disconnected from central banking necessary now, when clearly it provides no benefits to most people who have more pressing matters above them that Monero won’t fix and in fact might worsen.

Depends really. Many darknet transactions can only be done in Monero nowadays, so it has proven itself as a better currency than Bitcoin to the criminal underworld. But outside of that it very much is cryptobro bullshit to be avoided.

I like to tell socialists that before revolution Monero is the only tolerable crypto currency (even then it has very few uses), but after that it’s just a liability to be rid of. Hell for most liberals (except the grifters) Monero is no different to other crypto grifts and thus useless.

I also like to compare it to the slogan (paraphrasing): “The gun can only be abolished by the gun.” but they aren’t really that comparable as the two are fundamentally different. But some similarities can be taken.

Says a lot about a person when the prime reason for not liking a company is them not delivering on the treats. I hope that is not your main reason.

Hexbear has been here since before Lemmy even had implemented activitypub. For 3 years they’ve successfully existed in their niche and will continue to do so in the future.

Not to mention that thanks to federation they’ve gained many more uses and have left a mark on the rest of the fediverse that my instance, Lemmygrad, could’ve only dreamed of!

We’re defining this space while all you are trying to do is to create a shitty Reddit knockoff. I’m sorry but your model is going to fail. You have nothing to offer to users that Reddit doesn’t have, and they will not care. The whole third party app debacle has already died down, and most simply never cared.

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