🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@johnabs

Actually its very similar to my own proposal in some ways and one that others have made... that is... no income tax, only sales tax.

You can still make tax progressive though by taxing much more for luxury items and taxing very little or nothing on necessities like food.

@Pat @rbreich

@admitsWrongIfProven at this rate i wont be rich for long ;)

@samueljohnson

You could try asking for elaboration on what I meant by centralization. That would be much more productive than this strutting around your doing.

@CloudyMrs @Paulos_the_fog

Postmodern Jukebox has done it again:

https://youtu.be/OBmlCZTF4Xs

#Music

@macfranc

People have asked about setting up our code before and I know for a time some people did run forks of QOTO,. I dont recall the instances or even they are still up though. That said I do know of many instances that have taken code from QOTO.

As for our choice to let our users decide federation rather than the main admin, I dont disagree it was a gamble and has caused some to throw shade at us. However as I explained it came as adirect response and the at the request of our LGBTQ community. They made a clear argument why that choice was neccesary for their safety, and we decided their safety was the priority over any effect on public opinion. So while you arent wrong about your accessment of that choice I would argue it was still the correct choice.

What is concerning is Gargron basically thought that decision, one in which our LGBTQ communities safety was prioritized over popular opinion, is one he felt punishing exclusively due to popular opinion (he was aware of our stance for years and approved of it right until people started to break out the cancel culture nonsense).

@Shamar @treleonora @mcp @MariuzzoAndrea @bibliogadda @stefanodazzan@mastodon.uno

@macfranc

It is not a mastodon instance, it is a fork of mastodon. The proper thing to refer to it as is "a fork of mastodon".

I dont mind you calling it "platypus soup" though i wonder what that is meant to convey... Many of the features we have QOTO was the first to develop, some we were the first to add to mastodon, others we borrowed from other platforms that set the standard.So im not sure QOTO is anymore of a "playpus soup" than any other fediverse software, we chose what features we wanted that were already out there, and added our own, thats all.

What perplexes you about that post, I made sure to clarify and backup any claim I made with evidence and screenshots. Most people are upset about it because Eugen is usually very much the politician, so he generally has a good public image despite repeatidly making many questionable decisions behind the scenes where he has thrown instances under a bus just to appease the crowd. It works well for his agenda actually and usually causes people to come to his defense when someone calls him out.

@Shamar @treleonora @mcp @MariuzzoAndrea @bibliogadda @stefanodazzan@mastodon.uno

@Pat

I actually disagree there, the tax system is rather fair and pretty heavily taxes the rich. Most of the perceived issues here come about from meme that just arent accurate and a lack of accounting knowledge... but I digress, we can agree to disagree here.

What I do want to say is that the real problem is more about how lax we are about anti-trust laws (monopoly busting laws), thats where the real issues lie, the tax itself is fine.

@johnabs @rbreich

@jpaul Thank you

@Romaq Yes, but just on the chips :)

Still a favorite:

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

- Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
W.B. Yatyes

Friend: I dont want to get fat

Me: You wont mind it so much, we are a jolly people!

I think the fediverse really needs to hear this:

Hate the sin.
Love the sinner.