1 socialization per week.

Going out somewhere or having friends over. More than that is just too much for my energy levels.

During weekdays everyone is stressed and tired. During weekends I need some time to rest, preparing myself for next week.

Hide the item under your clothes.

They also didn’t say how big your clothes can be

They didn’t convince anyone of anything, they just have a great free-tier service, so people prefer using it than self-hosting something. You can also self-hosted Github if you want the features they offer, besides Git.

I do love Linux. You got me there.

If a human is part of nature… Isn’t being killed by a human a natural death?

Why do you care what other instances think about it? I’m honestly asking and expecting an answer here. This isn’t a sassy question.

You built a wall and now you’re asking people outside of that wall what it feels for you to leave. Well, I’d care if I could see what’s inside the wall, but I can’t. I tried subscribing and it was impossible.

So why do you care what people outside of your wall think? Again, I expect an answer here.

Because they use what you say to tagert ads and keep a record of who you are. That’s how they make money.

Which goes back to… You’re just a product. Stop using large platforms for personal shit. That’s their business model, how is it evil if most people know these companies rely on stealing as much information from you as they legally can AND they still use them.

Add a hard captcha in order to allow posting on specific communities that would be targets for bots, like c/memes. Like a very fucked up captcha.

https://youtu.be/WqnXp6Saa8Y

Yeha, I don’t think an economy based on donations would work because I know how awful humanity is.

Same way people figured out how to exploit capitalism, they’d figure out how to exploit your proposed system…and it is the most exploitable system I’ve heard of. This isn’t paradise, people aren’t singing Kumbaya and holding their hands.

Your proposal is the equivalent of putting a passed out girl and a rapist in a dark room and asking him to please behave. The rapist is humanity and the girl is a donations based economy, in case that wasn’t clear.

There are instances of communities in which communism works, but it never does at large scale. Idealism doesn’t always match reality, specially considering how evil and power hungry humans are.

The problem of capitalism isn’t capitalism itself, it is a decent system. The problem of the system is their users, power hungry and corrupted users. And any system will get twisted as long as humanity doesn’t change its nature.

What’s next? A government that relies on donations instead of taxes? Workers that rely on donations from their employers?

Yes, exactly, you would lose the interest of high quality producers and artists that don’t think donations are enough or reliable. Why can’t people put a price on the shit they created? Just because you don’t like the way the system works doesn’t give you the right to dismiss its rules. Imagine if someone violated your fundamental rights because they don’t agree with them in their personal world view.

They created that content BECAUSE they wanted to sell it. If there wasn’t an incentive to sell, they wouldn’t have created it, depriving people of the content anyways.

Keep pirating, I don’t care, but don’t pretend you’re not harming the producers of the content or the industries that feed millions of people. You’re probably also harming legal consumers because companies factor in the losses of piracy and increase prices to match their target revenue.

Do you think people are donating enough money to sustain the families of the instance admins? They obviously have jobs and Lemmy is a hobby or a project for them. They aren’t depending on Lemmy for a living.

That can happen sometimes but expecting the world to work around donations for every piece of software, music or literature is just too naive.

Some instance admins have said that they need to create a monetization strategy because depending on donations isn’t reliable.

Are you telling me how I think?

It’s been some years since I pirated stuff, but I definetely did it because I had no money and I wanted to play the games ASAP. I could have saved to buy them, but I chose to be selfish and focus on instant gratification.

Most pirates just want free content, that’s it. They want to save their money.

Streaming services are cheaper in India. Games are cheaper in India.

I’m not sure what gatekeeping you’re talking about.

Also, imagine saying a top restaurant is gatekeeping people from quality food. Well, damn, quality music is more expensive to produce!! Quality books take longer to write!! Quality movies require millions of dollars!!

Yes, exactly, piracy is fine as long as it isn’t widespread. But these wackos are saying that everything should be free because copying isn’t stealing.

A little piracy? Nobody cares. A lot of piracy? No good, industries collapse.

It is immoral because it is stealing, even if they can take the loss, it is still stealing. Stealing is wrong in most cases.

What’s the point of your last paragraph, are you saying that only certain pirating is ethical?

Because I agree it is OK in that particular scenario, but not everywhere. But people here aren’t being this specific. And it is weird that you had to go to that specific scenario after I told you how piracy can destroy the life of a person.

I have pirated games that I would have bought if I didn’t know how to pirate it.

That, right there, counters everything you said. It is stealing because I’m not paying for something I would have payed.

Imagine getting in a concert without paying and saying “it isn’t stealing because there’s free space and the sound is shared”. Is that how you live your life?

If they grew, they could help more people who are hungry.

Redhat not giving back?

Do you think Redhat hasn’t contributed to Linux?

I swear, I’m about to punch a wall reading these replies. Holy shit.

So the world is bad because of copyright. OK.

So far, “fitting in” has been the worst excuse for stealing. So, can people go into an IShop and steal Iphones because they want to fit in?

Look, I don’t care if people steal. Go, do it, I’m doing it too… But pretending it isn’t wrong is such bullshit.

How is stealing anyone’s effort and hard work fine? Just because the work can be duplicated easily doesn’t mean that it didn’t take a lot of effort to produce and should be sold individually.

Imagine telling a book author that they only sold a copy because everyone agrees copying and sharing his book was fine. It took him 5 years to write it. He’d probably kill himself. Again just because something can be duplicated doesn’t mean it doesn’t take work!!!