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It seems the fediverse is continuing and growing again. Line go up is probably good!

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https://fediverse.observer/stats&months=50

Total users are huge now.

There are many websites out there that pull data from the fediverse. So take that with a grain of salt. But anecdotally I am seeing a small rise in people using the various platforms as each get more mature and servers somewhat stabilize.

  • adjectivenoun@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 month ago

    You can’t. He’s trying to use liberal as an epithet when he means neoliberal. If we’re being pedantic, liberal refers to the full gamut of people who think there should be an open and free society, which usually includes a market and certain property rights. The conservatives use liberal as an epithet to decry the left and now the left is using it to decry the middle.

    It would be funny if it wasn’t being used to convince naive progressives to sit out elections and let fascists seize power because the center left “only” wants 85% of what they want. You’re seeing it really ramp up because the US is closing in on a big election, and convincing dipshits to sit out elections is easier than convincing anyone the right can govern.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      This isn’t really accurate. Liberalism and private property rights are fundamentally tied, that was how it historically emerged. Neoliberalism is a subset of liberalism that emphasized privatizing the welfare states that emerged throughout the 20th century as these states ran into crisis of profitability.

      The left has opposed liberalism as soon as socialism began to truly take form, especially around the time of Karl Marx and the first international. Saying that the left and progressive liberals want “85% of the same things” is not true at all, the left wants to fundamentally change the entire base of society into a socialist one, not merely expand the welfare state in capitalism, because the main critique from the left is that capitalism itself is unsustainable and incapable of fulfilling the needs of the working class.

      Leftists also support revolution over reformism, and do so year-round, every year. It’s not that the left gets louder around election season, it’s that those that see voting as their sole means of political action tend to notice the left more around election season. This in turn leads to more conversations around reformism vs. revolution, the nature of the capitalist system, and the role of the DNC and GOP in protecting imperialism and capitalism. The US is run by billionaires, it has never been run by the people, because the base structure of society is one where a tiny number of people own and control the means of production and distribution.