# Distributism And Fediverse

Recently I've accidently met an ideology called "distributism" and
I've immediately found myself a distributist. So I really want to
introduce this ideology. What is distributism?


To define simply,

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Distributism
: Widespread private ownership of means of production
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I think this could be the core definition although distributism is
not all about economy. Originally it came from Catholic social
teachings. But you don't have to be a Catholic for distributism. I
could also call this system "ownership economy".


If you define capitalism as "private ownership of means of production",
then distributism is a form of capitalism. But in typical capitalism,
few people control the means of production while most people can't.
As a result, most people become wageslaves and overdepend on the
system. In distributism, private ownership is widespread so that
most people can be self-sufficient or can live by running small
family businesses. This will preserve family and community values
too.

Distributism strongly opposes socialism. Because socialism is like
"Private property sucks. So let's remove it and share instead"
while distributism is "Private property is so important. Hence we
should make sure that everyone can get own private property".
Distributism encourages cooperation though but it is more through
cooperatives and guilds. Not through socialism way.

Thus you can say that distributism is the third way. But I would
say it is the zeroth way because in the past this was more normal.


The ideology underneath the fediverse is exactly distributism.
Neocities and other web0 things too. Let's see what I discussed in
this example.

* Typical capitalism: Few people control the means of production
(centralized servers) like Twitter and YouTube. Most people are
wageslaves ("users" or "content creators") of these platforms.

* Socialism: Instead of owning the means of production (centralized
servers), let's share the platform as a decentralized network like
a blockchain.

* Distributism: Let's build own individual websites. Make webrings
and federate via ActivityPub.

So I support distributism as well as I support Neocities, web0 and
fediverse.