Time after time I see that the Right is Stupid when it comes to technology with an almost Luddite mentality.
Wanting to return to paper ballots when a blockchain based ballot system would be far superior to anything we have now. Secure and tamper proof.
Being against electric vehicles and autonomous vehicles. These are the future of automobiles. Battery and computer technology continues to grow in leaps and bounds. And this technology will replace our current gas vehicles.
And then there is Social Media. During President Trump’s first term, the President and many other conservatives were silenced across multiple social media platforms. Even to the point of being banned for life. One of these was Twitter, before it was purchased and rebranded by Elon Musk.
There was a growing open source project called StatusNet. A twitter-like service that was decentralized. Anyone could setup a server and they would all talk to each other. And as it grew and developed it became the service known now as Mastodon. Which of course uses an elephant for it’s logo.
As a decentralized platform each server can have it’s own rules and and structure. Each server can choose to associate with any of the others or none of them at all. Or even allow its users to follow but not otherwise interact. It’s really a great system.
And like many new technologies the Left seems to adapt to them quickly. While the Right sits in the cave and bangs stones together.
Today the Mastodon Fediverse is free of ads. And none of use like the heavy use of ads on other services. The Right, after being banned from Twitter created a few of their own Twitter-like microblogging services. But they are full of ads. This was dumb move. The Right should have just flooded the Fediverse with servers. So what if the Left doesn’t follow them? We would Federate with others and still have a great system everywhere.
There is still time to do this of course if the Right decided to do something intelligent when it comes to technology. But they probably wont.
