Secret sauce: Do the drying with the hair dryer on mid heat.

Wrong: cleaning ass only with toiler paper.

Right: Using a bidet after pooping.

Your asses will thank me.

Those admins are unpaid?

Managing a store it’s a LOT of work. And you are doing to provide profit for other people. Who is going to do it for free?

It’s not like social media where people may volunteer to admin and mod, and users may donate because it’s a common goal of share information, opinions, knowledge, funny stuff etc.

Here we are talking about bussiness that do what they do because they want money. I would not volunteer to admin a store so shop owners could earn money, that’s for sure.

And I still not see the advantage of doing within the ActivityPub instead of just being a normal service where all interested shops could join.

In this example instances are stores, stores are users in instances? How stores are protected to be defederated by competitors (we are talking about money and making a living here).

What it adds to just a simple centralized service that any store can join. If you don’t want it to be another amazon, make that service a coop. or some kinds of non-profit that it’s paid by the stores that want to become part of that.

I think here we are in the classic conundrum of “a solution in search of a problem”.

Fediverse and ActivityPub is cool, but it’s a social media thing. And decentralization is cool when needed, for instance social media. But it doesn’t have to make sense for every use case.

For what’s being proposed there’s zero actual need for decentralization or ActivityPub.

I really don’t see the appeal of activity-pub for this.

It’s a protocol used for social media and interactions. You describe just sort of a “metastore”.

Maybe a review store site could work better with activity pub.

Correct me if I’m wrong. But you examples are bot cutting off the middle man.

The person with the small computer store is still a middle man.

And being smaller usually means that their cut needs to be bigger to maintain themselves.

I wouldn’t know what’s “wrong” or “right” in these kind of matters.

You should do whatever is better for your mental health.

Are you better without having contact with your father or having contact with him?

It’s the only question here.

You should be aware that you would not change his mind with this or make him question his beliefs. If something his beliefs would probably grow stronger after something like that.

You also should be aware that that action would have zero impact on the far right campaign.

So if you do this is for your own mental benefit, nothing else. Don’t let any kind of pressure on any direction force you to do anything that’s not the best for your mental health.

I would also consider just lowering the amount of contact and see how it goes instead of completely cut ties (an action that would have life lasting consequences)

To be true, for what I read, if I was in your situation I wouldn’t cut ties. You said that he supports you, and for me that’s the important thing in a father. I personally have no issues having personal relationships with people with vastly different political ideologies. My mental health does not suffer from that. But every person is different, so you do what’s best for you.

In my country we stopped voting the socdem party, because they betrayed the workers. From one election to the next they lost like half the votes.

For 4 years the conservative party ruled. But after that the socdem change their politics we voted them again and had had a fairly leftist government for the last year.

They are slacking again so I plan not to vote next election, hoping thar more people get the memo, they sink again in votes and sit to think on why people felt betrayed, and change for the better.

4 years of conservative party were worthy giving that after the socdems turned left again we conquer a lot of things that we wouldn’t have gotten otherwise if we would have keep on voting their moderate centrist version.

We also voted for third parties when they said that it was throwing your vote away, and the other party got almost the same votes as the socdems(too bad they were not that good once they sat on office). My point is that courage is needed to make a change.