hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!
hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!
I wish we as a species would just drop this trend of having to eventually ruin a good thing just about every goddam time.
Just has to do with some central person/group seeing a big pay day. Most people have a price tag at which they would sell just about anything.
Well, people willing to pay for it must see some value in it, and obviously, they don’t want to lose that value. So they will do anything for that, including fucking over people
Unfortunately our entire economic system relies on that.
Closed source/centralized software always ends like this. It’s always “not my problem” with people when it comes to propriatory software dying until, of course, it is :(
Tell me how! People expect all good things on the internet to be free on but there are costs.
Treat it like public infrastructure and fund it with public taxes.
Demand is real, cost isn’t that high, but societal cost for bad execution can be high.