I have 3 mastodon accounts, for different purposes. One personal, one more work focused, and one parody

Yes. Perhaps fairly chaotic for a decade or two, but then much better 😅

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Political_systems

Have a read of Wengrow and Graeber’s The Dawn Of Everything. It’s a re-examination of the political implications of archeology, and it’s pretty inspiring. Definitely dispelled me of any notion that capitalism or communism or totalitarianism were the only plausible systems.

Vendor lock-in.

• Necromancer by William Gibson gripped me hard.
• anything by Terry Pratchett. Hard to choose, but probably Feet Of Clay.
• anything by Ursula Le Guin, probably The Dispossessed.

Probably forgetting a few, those would all be in my top 5 though

Right, thanks. Still a super useful system, IMO, though I’m sure better versions are possible.

That’s true, but it’s gotta be balanced by limiting the fallout of extreme cases on other users

It doesn’t accumulate and display anywhere though, does it?

Maybe. They might also mean you’re an idiot.

Slashdot used to have a multidimensional voting system that would allow you to up or down vote something based on whether it was funny/insightful/correct, etc (can’t remember the dimension). I wish we had something like that. Sometimes it would be useful to mark a comment as “funny, but also wrong”

There ate multiple algorithms, but I don’t think any of them account for both votes and comments… I might be wrong though.

Tangent: the "scaled* algorithm, which normalises post ranks by the popularity of the community they’re posted to, is excellent. I recommend everyone use it as their default.

Out of interest, were US Panamanians (?) Part of the more general Latin swing toward trump?

Not trying to say it’s good, but I do wonder how those people are feeling/thinking now.

I would guess that at least some library software would have the ability to track maintenance needs or at leat damage state. But yeah, maybe not the periodic stuff.

Oh. That sounds less like a library and more like a hire service.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax

I guess you only really need to be able to add pictures, maybe a barcode, and time tracking, right? None of that’s book specific.

Most by number of users, I’d guess.

I’m on mastodon.social, and basically never see threads posts.

Australia.

I would argue that global wages and conditions should be better, in which case Aus (and even more so the US) could more easily compete.

I suspect the distributed moderation will help in the long run too.

Most of the core mastodon servers haven’t blocked threads…