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  • Also:

    • gift economy/trading platform (e.g. like freecycle)
    • buying/selling (e.g. like ebay)
    • local community/bioregionalism networks (e.g. what nextdoor should be)

    These seem kind of ideal for a federated network, IMO.

    I actually think Lemmy would be a pretty decent format for something stackoverflow like - just maybe needs to UI tweaks to minimise the visual space that replies take up, plus maybe answered post flair






  • There’s a pretty decent broad overview of systems thinking (aka complexity theory, the study of complex adaptive systems) in the wikipedia page linked in the sidebar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinking

    I’d say it’s more of a way-of-thinking than anything (so I guess philosophy?), kind of a counterpart to reductionism. In practice, it applies (and has been applied) to basically any field, definitely including physics - early work was very physics focused, but later on the field expanded to include economics and other social science questions. There are models that do use maths/computation (especially some of the earlier approaches), but there’s also a lot of qualitative work associated with it as well.

    So I guess the answer to all your questions is “yes”? :)

    The first two posts on the community are good deeper introductions to the field.