soratoyuki

More confirmation that URLCheck is fantastic.

Please normalize sanitizing links in your social circles.

Not that I want to defend Plex which is definitely enshittifying, but I don’t think most people are buying Plex to stream their own media. They’re doing it so other people can stream their media. Not wanting to buy a domain and set up port forwarding or a reverse proxy or whatever doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. My grandparents are never going to use Tailscale, and even if they did, I don’t think there are any Tailscale smart TV apps.

Disclosure: I run Plex and Jellyfin (and Navidrome) in parallel, and bought a lifetime pass years ago.

Both words are complicated, debated, co-opted, etc., so it’s hard to come up with a definition and relationship that’d be universally accepted. But Socialism, broadly speaking, is the ownership of the means of production (things that, when work, generate money like factories, etc.) by the workers. Different variants of socialism call for that ownership by different means, usually either by a government as a proxy for the workers, or by industrial unions, or by the workers’ directly.

Communism is a variant of Socialism that, broadly, assumes that socialism will eventually progress to a classless and stateless society.

It’s complicated because ‘social democracy’ and ‘democratic socialism’ are two distinct ideologies, who’s definitions have flipped throughout history, and who’s biggest proponents (in the US at least) get it backwards.

Social democracy isn’t a form of socialism since it’s still capitalism, albeit one with guardrails. Most people that identify as democratic socialists – aside from social democrats misusing the term – are socialists that want to draw a contrast with Marxism-Leninism and other perceived ‘authoritarian’ forms of state socialism. But it’s hard to define a concrete definition for the term since people use it as an umbrella term, including it’s adoption by some state socialists.