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  • I dont think the whole web being like the fediverse is feasible

    It does not need to be. “Whole web” being a certain way almost implies it all follows the same standards from which point the people who set and develop those standards become the centralised authority.

    I like to think of the internet as simply a carrier of digital information. This can be any information. My vpn tunnel is just as much a part of the whole as a public website.

    The way i envision a positive evolution is that more people get involved in running their own network, for themselves, their family, their neighbourhood, a global community they are a part of.

    They can use the activitypub protocol, a selfmade protocol or any other they want. The only thing that matters is that the people who need and use the digital information can use it.

    The public internet dominated by large players will still exist but it will be (and actually already is) a small portion of everything we use the web for.











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    “Caused” was not a good term but like i said i made that comment half jokingly

    I find that almost everything can be boiled down to just be a display of quantum mechanics which is why id place it as more fundamental.

    I cant really say that about gravity/spacetime though. Maybe someday we do find that it also is but for now it seems to be distinct.


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    Thanks for a well written reply.

    Though i still dont quite get this

    the electromagnetic force itself doesn’t “arise” from quantum mechanics, and you can explain things like electromagnets and a lot of common electric circuits (until you need a transistor) quite well without considering quantum mechanics.

    You seem to say if we can explain x without y then y cannot be fundamental to x.

    But can electromagnetism at all emerge if the quantum mechanics dont exist to emerge things like magnetism and some of the behavior of electrons?




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    Maybe i am wording it wrong. I did make the comment half joking but my current understanding of how magnetism really works, which my physics teacher was unable to answer has a chapter on wikipedia called Quantum-mechanical origin of magnetism

    I have no degrees in this stuff though, i just think about them recreationally.

    The carrier particle thing to describe a fundamental force is new to me, and honestly feels very counterintuitive to how i started to understand things.


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    Gravity is a fundamental force just like electromagnetism (supposedly)

    Fundamental means it cannot be explained by being caused by something else.

    But then they say gravity is an effect caused by spacetime curvature and electromagnetism is caused by quantum phenomena.

    What is the cause for spacetime or quantummechanics? Idk but somehow they don’t make it on the list of fundamental forces.

    Classical science, for all the good it did and does, is an unironic joke and if aliens knew about it they’d be laughing at us.



  • Personally speaking, the only person that can teach you about anarchy is yourself.

    Look around, see how things work around you, especially constructs like hierarchy, property and rule. You don’t need to be against those constructs but if you hold a healthy critical mindset you will see how everything remains build on the foundation of natural anarchy.

    Anarchism (as internalised by me for myself) is not about being anti order or pro chaos but about recognising the inherent freedom of each individual and respecting it for the ancient truth it is.

    I have zero knowledge about if this aligns with other thinkers, but my desire for building a better world together where all people can prosper and be free in respect to each other is as strong as i have seen in any other fellow anarchists.