"Bluesky has managed to grow significantly bigger than the fediverse at this point, with around 5 times as many monthly active users, as well as onboarding the Brazilian community. It seems to me that it is worth reflecting on why that is, and how the fediverse can better show itself as a good, ethical social network that people would like to join."

Yeah, why is that? On the one hand, LGBTQ is strong in the Fediverse, and tech nerds of course. But other than that ... the Fediverse never had this kind of cultural momentum.

Thats sad. I'm sure mozilla could have pushed the Fediverse

I read it only in parts. Apparantly, there actually is a dollar-galleons-exchange rate carried out by Gringots.

"Consider first the Galleon–Dollar exchange rate (i.e. the exchange rate between the muggles’ money and the wizards’ money), which is not mentioned explicitly in the original 7-volume Harry Potter books, but we know from the books that the Gringotts handles such exchanges (Rowling, 1999a, p. 50). Based on information from three sources, we estimate that the Galleon–Dollar exchange rate is about $7.30/Galleon."

The best of these sources is Rowling herself I think: "Third, in an interview on March 12, 2001, when asked by Rebecca Boswell, ‘What is the approximate value of a galleon?’ J.K. Rowling’s reply was ‘About five pounds, though the exchange rate varies!’ (Source: https://www.hp-lexicon.org/2007/02/04/wizard-money/, accessed June 6, 2022.) We conclude therefore that the Galleon–Dollar exchange rate is about $7.30/Galleon."

Arthur Wesley after all also bought a muggle car and bewitched it.

I read the books. But yeah, the name could have been improved ... just Wiz Tech for example.

No no, there is actually a whole economic going on and someone analyzed it: https://academic.oup.com/ooec/article/doi/10.1093/ooec/odac004/6646895

And its not so different and similary flawed than that in our world ;)

Idk. I mean, we all basically know how an engine works, how a coffee machine works, but these little magic devices that are supposed to work with these "microchips". You can easily take apart an engine, but if you take apart a smartphone, you never find the bits ...

You can probably exchange it. And I mean gold should count anywhere

I tried to base it on the advertising of the 50/60s. Its a bit thick ...

Now that's unfair, using digital artifacts in an empowering way could be very Solarpunk

Beats me ... I can only vaguely point in the direction of ... magic?

Wer für den Müll empfänglich ist, interessiert sich nicht dafür, dass das vielleicht hinterher argumentativ auseinandergenommen wird.

Denke ich schon

Alleine die Tatsache, dass die Nazis da eingeladen werden, sendet schon ein klares Signal: “Das ist eine ganz normale Partei”.

Das ist halt das Dilemma, wenn eine faschistische Partei viele Wählerstimmen bekommt. Auf der einen Seite kann man sie nicht ignorieren, auf der anderen Seite gibt man ihr eine Bühne. Aber die Bühne hat sie in den sozialen Medien so oder so.