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Re:Show HN: A Socialist Social Network by johnday on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:15PM (#21252987)
The site seems to not currently functioning, which... doesn't bode well?

I am interested in how a social network can be socialist, per se.

Re:Show HN: A Socialist Social Network by natechols on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:16PM (#21252995)
The jokes practically write themselves...
Re:Show HN: A Socialist Social Network by giancarlostoro on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:20PM (#21253024)
I was going go comment "it doesnt work" but I didnt want people to think I was making fun of the political ideology instead of reiterating the website not working.
Re:Show HN: A Socialist Social Network by bifrost on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:27PM (#21253085)
Keyboard Stalin once said -> "The loss of one click is tragic, but the loss of thousands is statistic."
Re:Show HN: A Socialist Social Network by fstopmick on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:57PM (#21253326)
hahahahaha stop distracting me with your wit
Re:Show HN: A Socialist Social Network by anoncake on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:45AM (#21257494)
The dev must have used a dysfunctional programming language. They should have used a functional one, without classes and state.
Re:Show HN: A Socialist Social Network by WarDores on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:24PM (#21253058)
Someone else was supposed to pick up the bandwidth tab.
Re:Show HN: A Socialist Social Network by bifrost on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:29PM (#21253098)
I think there was a song about that.
Re:Show HN: A Socialist Social Network by lukifer on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:25PM (#21253066)
Not only does socialism suffer from a "No True Scotsman" problem (there is a wide disparity, from within and without, regarding what the term means), I dare say that's true of just about every -ism under the sun. (TODO: invent a political ideology that includes a formal specification.) :)
Re:Show HN: A Socialist Social Network by anoncake on Monday October 14, 2019 @09:16PM (#21254673)
"Socialism" being an ambiguous term would not be that much of a problem if people stopped pretending it isn't and every socialist is a tankie. It's hard to believe someone is arguing in good faith if they criticize anarchists for trying to build a totalitarian dictatorship.

We have a problem with people seeing Ms. Scott from England, thinking her skirt is a kilt and getting angry when she claims she can't play the bagpipe.

Re:Show HN: A Socialist Social Network by lukifer on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:12PM (#21260943)
No dispute. Obviously decades of anti-Soviet propaganda (which does encapsulate many legitimate critiques) have muddled the conceptual landscape, both in terms of oversimplification, and in emotional charge. And, we have significant status quo bias regarding our particular neoliberal form of capitalism; you can't tell a fish about water.

Still, even correcting for those historical factors, I think every -ism, or school of thought, suffers from similar problems in subjective perception: it's easy to find nuance and diversity of opinion if one looks for it, and equally easy to find bad actors, tribalist talking points, sloppy thinking, etc, if one looks for it.

> We have a problem with people seeing Ms. Scott from England, thinking her skirt is a kilt and getting angry when she claims she can't play the bagpipe.

:)

Re:Show HN: A Socialist Social Network by bifrost on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:18PM (#21253015)
Maybe its for "Social-Ists"?

Like a weird way of saying people who like to be social?

And hopefully not the kind of socialism that Russia/DPRC employ, that would be the worst of all worlds.

Re:Show HN: A Socialist Social Network by anoncake on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:32AM (#21257432)
> socialism [...] Russia [...]

Welcome back! A lot has changed in the 30+ years you were in coma.

Re:Show HN: A Socialist Social Network by bifrost on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:14PM (#21274969)
I was talking about actual Russia not Ukraine/etc.

We could talk about the USSR but not everyone gets what that is anymore...

Re:Show HN: A Socialist Social Network by anoncake on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:47PM (#21276233)
Russia isn't socialist at all, not even in the Soviet sense.