@konrad this isn't exactly what you're asking, but it is important to consider: one big structural priority to think about from the outset with ANY instance is “how quickly can we respond in times of crisis”
a common failing of democratically-oriented instances is that when something controversial happens (e.g. a user says something which is patently bad but not an obvious violation of the code of conduct) the amount of Process required for action leads to an external appearance of inaction to the rest of the fediverse. this is a problem because even if appropriate steps are eventually made, by that time other instance admins may have gotten tired of waiting and permanently severed federation. it's very important to be able to respond to issues in a timely manner, and that means having a person (who could be elected!) with the authority to make immediate judgment calls on difficult cases.
you absolutely do not want to be caught in this situation without having established a plan for dealing with it. the reason why most fedi instances are not democratically-structured is because being both democratic AND responsive is a really tough nut to crack.
@mycorrhiza yeah i think “party identity” is definitely an interesting word choice on the part of this op-ed writer; i think actually what people are increasingly polarized regarding is the question of “where do we go from capitalism?” (with answers including socialism, fascism, etc) and Americans have just learned to speak about those opinions through proxy of a Democrat/Republican divide
i didn’t check the survey they were citing (if they did cite one…) to see what actual terms it used [but there are plenty of surveys right now showing that many people believe neither party deserves control of Congress, so stating that Americans have strong allegiance to “party identity” in that context is definitely baffling]
politics is a dialectic between differences and i for one embrace those differences shifting from what they were in 1992
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@coriander honestly the only Miyazaki films which i really consider Culturally Significant are Nausicaä and Mononoke and personally i think Nausicaä says it better; it's the one where i’m like “yeah this movie will change how you think about art if you let it”
(there are other Culturally Significant Ghibli films but they have different directors)
@aescling Princess Kushana
• it’s got science going too far
• it’s got body horror
• it’s got strange and powerful creatures beyond human comprehension
• it’s got an invisible yet deadly and pervasive illness
• it’s got people being constant fuckups as they attempt to enact their petty politics in a world they do not control or understand
• it’s got an incredibly hot yet morally ambiguous lesbian
every time i try to read gothic fiction i am just like “why isn’t this Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind”
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