As an X-ray tech, I’m disappointed there isn’t a single image.
It would be worth 50k words to see just one image this makes.

Not even.
I can make a fake screenshot that says anything I want.
Links to the source should be required.

Found the actual article for anyone who’s curious.

It comes down to two fundamental conceptions of what the Fediverse should be.

One is a single account, all access, everything does anything any other thing does, kind of vision.

The other is a, we do our thing, you do yours, we can do together where appropriate, kind of vision.

I fall into the later. I have no problem with multiple accounts for different kinds of content and entertainment. You may fall closer to the former.

*States Rights*
Isn’t that the line?

Oooh…
That was unclear. It sounded like you were talking about posting.

Why put the summary in the comments instead of the post text?

Pinterest is their own publicly traded company.
They aren’t owned by Meta.

I found Pinry and Pinetta. Though they seem to be kinda defunct without much recent activity.

Pixelfed allows you to make collections of posts, kinda like Pinterest.

That’s all I found with a simple search.

Is this even capitalism?

Is Discord social media? Social sure, but not media really.
It always seemed to be more a live communication/chat app to me.

Say who?

If actions depend on our thoughts

They don’t

Where did I “begin” … where will I “end”

“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the weather.” - Bill Hicks

I you word

Your actions are real.
Your thoughts are all in your head.

Couldn’t each one decide how much to charge and pay for their tokens? Like a swarm of countless centralized currencies, rather than a single decentralized one?

Then you have a central org you need to trust with the money. It’s not really distributed or federated system anymore.

Whatever the term, if the coins can be exchanged back into a real currency or goods, they have real value, and as such they’re as good cash.

Wikipedia:

Pachinko balls won from games cannot be exchanged directly for money in the parlor, nor can they be removed from the premises or exchanged with other parlors. However, they can be legally traded to the parlor for so-called “special prize” tokens (tokushu keihin (特殊景品) [ja]), which can in turn be “sold” for cash to a separate vendor off-premises.

That’s still not going to work without either a blockchain or central trusted management org of some kind.

So if they have real cash value, how do you secure a distributed currency system without a blockchain? How do you stop the creation of fraudulent tokins?

I’m not sure what problem this is trying to solve exactly.
Why not just a simple subscription to your home instance/server?
What would people get from trading these tokins, can they cash them out?
If not blockchain how do you guarantee or secure these tokins being traded across instance/servers?

Some people here already don’t like that they can’t know if something they deleted is gone, or that literally anyone can see anything they do here.

This would just destroy anyone’s concept of data ownership and control. Which I kinda like.

But pire peer-to-peer distributed systems like this, mean you need to locally store everything you may want to see or read, or ever have. Which is not possible for most