Great! Sail bravely, for we’re heading into the exciting waters of the future!
Rarr!
Great! Sail bravely, for we’re heading into the exciting waters of the future!
Rarr!
I guess it’s not loyalty to Reddit and Spez, but rather to a place they deem their home.
For some of them, it may seem we caused stir in the community out of nowhere, a stir that ended up with a lot of damage to Reddit.
While they may misunderstand the root cause of why we’re here, we need to understand this concept in order to communicate importance of this platform. Some people deleted their 10+ year accounts on Reddit. Some use Reddit in parallel with Lemmy. Some stick to Reddit and don’t plan to go anywhere, and are forced to witness their house crumble.
As a left-leaning (okay, outright communist), LGBT-supporting, Palestine-supporting (even pre-war), techy and nerdy person (i.e. Lemmy looks like it was made for me, lol), I still heavily agree we need some diversity here. Without it, Lemmy will never really be what Reddit has become. And we have all tools at our disposal - we are federated! So it becomes a little weird and phenomenal that we get such bubbles in here. But, I guess, this stems again from the small size of Lemmyverse - kind of a vicious circle.
Mastodon has more diversity, so maybe we just have to grow out of the current state? I don’t have the answers.
That’s not pure aluminium, it’s chemically altered. Everything is possible.
Sure
Lemmy as a project is free from ideology, but the spirit of main instances is like this. That’s what I’m saying.
I found it both weird (sometimes in a bad way) and fascinating.
From all life taught me, more online freedom normally gives rise to far-right extremism, and this place is surprisingly…left?
But yes, it might be skewed. As a left (and not Democrat kind of left, more like communist kind of left) I can’t not enjoy it, but I understand some people can be left out and that’s not nice to them.
The general ethos really is left-wing here.
Honestly even on political topics here you are much more likely to face a civil debate. There are exceptions, but chances are chances.
There is a demand, and there is a supply. Decentralization trends lead more and more people to self-host, and you can’t get around it any other way.
But also self-hosted (the central server, i.e. “lighthouse”) and open-source
Your analogy is not entirely correct.
As a viewer, I do not demand producers to create remakes or enhanced versions. They do it themselves - to take profits off relatively easy work, compared to, you know, producing a new great film or whatnot.
The correct comparison would be me writing a book and selling it, and then writing an appendix to this book and selling it separately with a solid price tag.
If I’m an honest author, I’d post updates freely, so that people who already own the book would have important data and wouldn’t use incorrect results from there. It would affect my reputation if I’d do otherwise, too.
In my real case, I can publish an update, and yes, it will be free. This is a standard for scientific articles, open or not, and many even have easy links for version updates, containing all corrections.
And my boss pays me because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to produce the first result to begin with.
Also, the very idea of digital media is to be accessible and not transient. You can save and backup data and it will be there, in its original form, forever. Updates in art are entirely optional and often unasked for.
I still don’t get where you’re going with that. Pointing out that in the past physical media did a little bit of the same, draining fans of money with re-releases that just added what’s been cut or were enhanced in other ways? Then that’s same as, say, DLCs: a small amount of work draining much more money than it’s worth, just as means of squeezing more cash from fans while making the base thing affordable for a wide audience. It’s just about maximizing profit way beyond the point of payback. Greed, essentially, and nothing else.
As per How I Met Your Mother, I kinda felt the ending to be somewhat natural, even though it seems like they didn’t think it through well to begin with. And yes, it’s super cruel to kill Ted’s wife - she’s extremely nice and suits him better and I get your feelings. But this is also a very logical plot twist, and the ending feels…like it should’ve been. I just knew it’d end up there.
And as per ethics, everything I produce (I work in scientific field) I hold no rights to, and they either belong to a company, sadly (on one job that actually pays me enough to survive), or are in the public domain (open access scientific articles, available for everyone in full text). I wish it would all be the latter. I do not want to retain copyright on anything I make, and I wish for it in general to be abolished. And until that’s not the case, I’m comfortable breaching it forcefully.
If you purchase something and you can’t just download it, move it wherever you want and watch it there with no limitations, you didn’t purchase it.
So you’re saying you want one show, and you pay subscription to see it, but then, if you want to watch it again, you have to pay subscription again, and at that point the “paying subscription for a show” model kinda breaks.
I absolutely didn’t get your argument on digital media. Film is not a stage performance - the former is recorded once, the latter needs to be manually recreated every time. Every performance is a lot of labor, and it needs to be paid. Every film view is literally nothing.
And yes, I personally have an ethical system strictly opposed to this, and, really, business/corporate greed in general, and I don’t think I’m alone here. And in the digital space, we can pack a punch.
AFAIK is a very established and widely recognized acronym with decades of history. Just saying.
Well-deserved.
AMD enjoys the role of people’s favorite too much.
At the end of the day, they’re no better than Intel.
For Reddit fascists, you are banned because of being horribly wrong.
It’s very easy to say “they were banned for being wrong, I was banned for being right”, but ain’t that double standard?
You were banned not for being right, but for saying something that fell out of Reddit guidelines - which can be skewed and fucked up, but it wasn’t you being a messiah and them trying to cover everyone from the truth and light you’re spreading.
You miss the important part.
You ARE right, and you should fight for the truth, and not bow to anyone, but the mere fact that you were banned isn’t proof of anything.
People calling for genocide get banned. Outright nazis get banned, even while they try to move the gate. Many terrible people do get banned. Doesn’t make them any more right. One can just be too stubborn to make reasoning impossible.
“I was banned thereby I’m right” is a very dangerous idea that often fuels your - and our - enemies and blinds them to the reason. It serves nothing but radicalization, for the right or, very often, for the wrong.
Saying those things validates the ideas that end up turning against you - and against the reason and the truth.
Being banned from somewhere doesn’t prove you right or wrong. It just means those particular people are angry at you, rightfully or not.
Just a subtle reminder because fascists and nazis themselves regularly use such kinds of phrases. Doesn’t make them any more right or honorable.
Do what is right, and always strive for freedom, and you’ll be good :)
I love how every evil plan has already been implemented
laughs in Russian