[email protected] is pretty much an everything database, so you can feed in films, TV, books, comics, music, etc and it can replace all the separate databases that have largely been bought up by Big Tech (often Amazon), like IMDb, Goodreads, etc.

It’s originally Chinese, so English language reviews are thinner on the ground at the moment but a lot of people are enthusiastic about it and I am hopefully it’ll soon take off.

Seems like a gap in the market. Lemmy.us?

Depends on if the despot is one of ours or not.

Usually if they aren’t then the West is backing the overthrowers. The tricky thing here is we weren’t backing any side so there will be a bit of a diplomatic scramble to figure out where the land lies.

Ultimately as we’ve happily worked with terrorists and despots in the past, we’ll have no issues bending our “morals” to accommodate another one.

The real test will be the Kurds. Turkey couldn’t openly support HTS but it’s thought that they have al-Golani the green light as they were making no progress with Assad. Turkey won’t want Syria to break up as that would be the start of a new Kurdistan so how will they deal with what comes next.

It’ll also be interesting to see what the West do as he and HTS are currently designated terrorists.

This would be an interesting idea. There have been open source ecommerce solutions for a long time (Woocommerce is very popular), you could bolt AP to something like that and you’d have the next evolution of the Fediverse. Someone runs an instance for vintage clothing or fanzines or crafty things or art and individuals can set up their stores on it with the instance processing payments in return for a small cut to keep the lights on. Allow options like auctions or crowdfunding and things get even more interesting.

A lot of instances are hosted by Hetzner which has servers in Germany and Finland. Although that might not be what they mean by “legal presence”.

Now do Hubzilla!

Beans

You can bridge the two now.

I just use Threadiverse and Threads can go piss up a rope.