https://youtu.be/GefwcsrChHk

5 9s means 99.999% uptime, which translates to a site only being down for ~0.86 seconds per day. This is the golden standard for online services

I can’t seem to find any information on it, but how hard would if be to host your own Bridgy Fed? I feel a tool like this would ideally be decentralized.

Some examples in the book include the Wendat people and Teotihuacan. You can also check out the book’s wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything.

One of the core conclusions of the book that you may find interesting (quote from the wiki):

Based on their accumulated discussions, the authors conclude by proposing a reframing of the central questions of human history. Instead of the origins of inequality, they suggest that our central dilemma is the question of how modern societies have lost the qualities of flexibility and political creativity that were once more common.

I recommend reading The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber for more details on societal structures of the past

Organic Maps gets their map data from OpenStreetMap (OSM). All OSM stuff is open source and the data is entered in by volunteers. If your area doesn’t have much yet, you should consider being the change by adding your favorite spots!

Other people have mentioned things like StreetComplete, which is an app that helps you fill in the gaps of some OSM data.

but if they don’t walk the knife’s edge of allowing fascism, how are the ultra-wealthy Democrats supposed to make line go up?

my preference is Xitter (pronounced shitter)

and that’s unfortunately only true because the greedy groups have destroyed all the non-greedy ones by slaughter or forced participation

we just need to make sure that we don’t rely on their instance(s) too heavily so we only have minimal losses when they eventually do drop support.

it may be more comprehensive than trying to scrape other platforms, but the data that is available is absolutely nothing compared to what they collect on their own platforms. they’re almost certainly not very concerned with collecting our relatively mild amount of data.

we probably need to transition to bringing our own reusable packaging/bottling for that stuff.

not that i don’t think you could ask about them here, but there are a number of self host communities that you should check out, here are two of the bigger ones:

!selfhosted@lemmy.world !selfhost@lemmy.ml

i totally agree, i didn’t quite state it but was basing my comment in the status quo. without being able to personally change the world’s economic model, one has to make decisions in the context of the current one.

i think another factor is that we are reaching or have maybe surpassed the earth’s carrying capacity for humans, which is only going to get worse with climate change. in the past, more kids also meant more labor and there was still lots of land to colonize and spread into with those extra people. but we already have more than enough people and no realistic places left to expand.