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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • Depending on how hardcore you are about it, you can’t.

    Are you getting up in people’s face to tell them not to use it, or are you answering why you choose not to use it?
    Are you extremely strict in your adherence? Or are you more forgiving based on the application or user?

    There are two general points I like to make:

    1. Big companies are using it to steal the work of the powerless, en masse. It is making copyright strictly the tool of the powerful to use against the powerless.
    2. If these companies aren’t lying and will actually deliver what they say they’re going to deliver in the timeline they stated, then it’s going to cause mass unemployment, because even if (IF) this creates new jobs for every job it destroys, the market can’t move fast enough to invent these new careers in the timeline described. So either they’re lying or they’re going to cause great suffering, and a massive increase in wealth inequality.

    Energy usage honestly never seems to be a concern for people, so I don’t even try to make that argument.






  • I mean, you don’t have to be on here. Go make your own instance with blackjack and hookers.

    It’s not really surprising that self hosted decentralized open source platforms became popular with the Linux crowd, and it’s not really surprising that the Linux crowd are leftists.

    But they were nice enough to let you use their work for free so you can make your own little part of the Internet that has the things you want