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Cake day: June 5th, 2023
  • Otter@lemmy.catoFediverse@lemmy.world•Where do we go from here?English
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    4 hours ago

    It’s hard to tell what was wrong with that post without seeing it. At the same time, we’re not a hive mind. People will disagree from time to time :)

    or they need a third party APP

    I’ve seen this complaint from other new users. Is there something wrong with a lack of an official app? Would it be an ok compromise for the official project to recommend some third party apps?

    A lot of these projects don’t have the capacity (yet) to develop an official app on top of the main platform.

    As for the recommendations

    • Pixelfed is a good alternative to Instagram
    • Mastodon and similar platforms are good alternatives to Twitter/X

    These are harder, or there’s not as much motivation for them. The projects are still going, but they’re slower:

    • Facebook: a lot of people dropped Facebook completely without replacing it with anything. The only real value is private groups and buy/sell tools, of which the first can be replaced with chat platforms and the second already has a patchwork of proprietary alternatives depending on where you are

    • LinkedIn: network effect is extreme with this one since it depends on where everyone else in your field of work is hanging out. Some fields don’t use LinkedIn at all already

    • Amazon: I don’t see the benefit of having a fediverse version of this? Building tools that independent stores can use to stay competitive might be better

    • Spotify: Funkwhale exists, but there are some concerns around piracy. Other options are self hosting or using one of the many other proprietary streaming platforms

    • Cloud storage: there are a number of alternatives https://ca.purchasewithpurpose.io/category/file-storage/

  • Otter@lemmy.catoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions.
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    5 hours ago

    For those that haven’t read the link

    A company or “yellow” union is a worker organization which is dominated or unduly influenced by an employer and is therefore not an independent trade union. Company unions are contrary to international labour law (see ILO Convention 98, Article 2).1 They were outlawed in the United States by the 1935 National Labor Relations Act §8(a)(2),2 due to their use as agents for interference with independent unions. However, company unions persist in many countries.

    A company or “yellow” union is a worker organization which is dominated or unduly influenced by an employer and is therefore not an independent trade union. Company unions are contrary to international labour law (see ILO Convention 98, Article 2).1 They were outlawed in the United States by the 1935 National Labor Relations Act §8(a)(2),2 due to their use as agents for interference with independent unions. However, company unions persist in many countries.

    I also didn’t know this:

    Japan

    Main article: Labor unions in Japan

    Company unions are a mainstay of labor organization in Japan, viewed with much less animosity than in Europe or the United States. Unaffiliated with RENGO (the largest Japanese trade union federation), company unions appeal to both the lack of class consciousness in Japanese society and the drive for social status, which is often characterized by loyalty to one’s employer.25

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