Made a post on Bluesky about moderation problems on Bluesky. Got this reply. My gut response is okay, weird offtopic reply. Then I thought about it and was like, wait, I don't know enough about the referenced philosophy to know if this makes sense, it might actually be relevant. Then I thought about it some more and was like wait, is it actually the case bluesky is fundamentally anarcholibertarian while Mastodon is fundamentally anarchosyndicalist…? Instances as reification of interest groups?
Anarchist men, if you have daydreams about a cute girl going "gosh~! i sure do wish someone would explain anarchosyndicalism to me!"— THIS IS YOUR MOMENT. IT HAS COME.
@mcc OK so the basis is use trade Unions collective power to starve the wealthy of power and money not by electoralism but by taking the means of production directly and without inflow of elite controlled resources government will fall. Paving the way for an egalitarian society were the people already have the resources and the means to distribute. See revolutionary Catalonia. I think blue sky is a very good example of libertarianism its centralized and for profit with no regulatory over sight.
@mcc Mastodon is a fairly good example of anarcho syndicalism, we have a decentralized layout of resources and some amount of control of what's on our respective instances. Most of fedi blocked meta so there is a collective actions there. But the fact that the software is owned by one person and he controls how its up dated and what happens with it is not along the lines of what the philosophy demands. Even with the small oversight board.
@mcc I can go more in depth later about the ins and outs but I'm making dinner rn
@budsofstone @mcc thank you for this explanation!
@budsofstone Absolutely!