The large majority of open source tools that are used in mass have significant commercial backing.

Yes many users could make more money from patron only. Very few do in the tall world. Their primary source of income is YT. Because people don’t use the patrons.

You can have a diverse community that has a large majority opinion. And what I said is certainly the prevailing opinion.

And to answer you about your personal view: You are stealing the right to distribution and taking money away from both corporations but more importantly creators. And I’ve seen the rates of direct donations eg patrons . It’s not ideological for most people, it’s about getting content for free.

Are you donating to every channel you are watching? I doubt it. Even the people who care mostly only donate directly to one of two top patrons, while still consuming many many more.

If you are actually donating, then good for you, I congratulate you for living what you preach and have zero qualms. But you would be a statistical edge case.

Oh right, in the magical world where people are giving their money away. The majority of content creators would of left your platform. But it’s okay it’s easy to steal their right to distribution and handwave it away as not a problem.

Because you have not set up that agreement and the vast majority of people don’t pay outside of ads or a singular monthly sub.

The next best thing is nebula which has 600,000 monthly subs at $5. Which means a maximum payout pool of 18M a year.

Look at the number of users vs donations. The only reason this place works is low traffic and low bandwidth. The vision you describe would be great but it’s not going to happen. ESPECIALLY once users are forced to pay rather than getting shit for free.

“Google shouldn’t be allowed to operate as a loss leader” - Reddit and Lemmy

“Paying for the service? Fuck that” - Also lemmy and Reddit.

I do empathize but your mental health isn’t my responsibility. If you don’t wear a seatbelt I didn’t give a fuck. But let’s take your strawman a bit further, video games have been shown to cause agressiness and anti social behavior. Do you support banning them all? What is, in your opinion, where the state should step in to protect people from themselves.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6790614/#:~:text=001%2C 95%25 CI = [,%2C participant sex%2C and age.

I don’t give a shit other than proper labels. The rest is nanny state bullshit.

I’m so tired of this shit. I don’t care if people can’t handle their shit. Their problem, not mine. If I want to gamble I can gamble. I don’t care if some shitty parent is letting their kids gamble. Nanny state bullshit.

🤷‍♂️ people are going to take the path of least resistance

Yes. The prompt asking you if you wanted to do it or not would come up next. Unless they figured out some sneaky way to do something to avoid using admin.

Don’t get me started on this shit. The privacy people are well.

Oh I’m sure the person running this instance from his basement is going to handle my gdpr request better than Meta 🙄 definitely can’t pull down a hash table from the db with zero accountability

🤷‍♂️ run your own 4 nines service to complete. Nothing is preventing you. People choose this shit because running services is hard and expensive.

You’ll have to be more specific on the confusion.

Yes it was. What crack are you on? From day 2, the second that shit was made public to college students it was HAMMERED into everyone’s head that shit would be public. The boomers on Fox News knew this shit was public.

The point is they won’t. In figuring will continue over every fucking little thing THE VEGANS ARE CRAZY SO BAN THEM

Already is. Forums with extra steps unfortunately.

Lololol I didn’t think everyone here had thought through this lololol. You are wildly optimistic.

Everyone screaming left and right about employeer and school admissions scanning the site.

SLAVERY!!! 🙄

Twat

Oh you mean like every commercial FoSS OS which will force you to wait or not receive certain security updates unless you are on a subscription?

It’s like none of you have experienced an outage before