The internet only took off because it was full of free content.
Trying to monetize it is going against the very thing that made it popular and possible.
How many times are they going to fucking try this shit. It’s like watching a person open an empty box, close it, and open it again hoping there’s something in there this time. Over and over again.
It really has made me appreciate and gain an interest in FOSS. Always had a passing interest but I’m really starting to understand the principle behind it.
I guess I used to think of it as a more libertarian ideology, like “the government is going to spy on my porn folders” sorta reasons, so I didn’t think too hard about it. But for communists I think it’s important for reasons of escaping capitalist hell.
Makes me realize how some of the early computer folks like Richard Stallman saw what was coming, that it didn’t have to go the way of paid services. The good guys just lost. Or maybe it was never something to be won… idk. Free software, free digital media, free social media are important alternatives in capitalist society where everything is monetized, propagandized, and compromised/tracked.
Supposing global communism were achieved, would global social media be a realistic or even desirable goal?
Huge question, I know. I mean it practically in terms of computing power and all the resources needed for tech - could the world sustain it, SHOULD the world sustain it?
Societally, would people drift away from social media being so central to their lives anyway? I think I would if the world around me actually satisfied me.
True, it’s been really interesting to see it replicated at alarming speeds. Monopolizing happening on time frames of a decade that previously took a century. It’s tough to get people to understand systems that move at a glacial pace. The ocean taking a foot of beach a year can be ignored for a lifetime, etc. The rapid pace of things on the internet, the very pace that enabled all that “fast money” make it easier for people to track degradation in real time.
It’s like watching a person open an empty box, close it, and open it again hoping there’s something in there this time. Over and over again.
ok but what if there is a hypothetical cat in the box which may be considered simultaneously both alive and dead, while it is unobserved in a closed box, as a result of its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur? You need to open the box to see if it is alive or dead
The internet only took off because it was full of free content.
Trying to monetize it is going against the very thing that made it popular and possible.
How many times are they going to fucking try this shit. It’s like watching a person open an empty box, close it, and open it again hoping there’s something in there this time. Over and over again.
It really has made me appreciate and gain an interest in FOSS. Always had a passing interest but I’m really starting to understand the principle behind it.
I guess I used to think of it as a more libertarian ideology, like “the government is going to spy on my porn folders” sorta reasons, so I didn’t think too hard about it. But for communists I think it’s important for reasons of escaping capitalist hell.
Makes me realize how some of the early computer folks like Richard Stallman saw what was coming, that it didn’t have to go the way of paid services. The good guys just lost. Or maybe it was never something to be won… idk. Free software, free digital media, free social media are important alternatives in capitalist society where everything is monetized, propagandized, and compromised/tracked.
Supposing global communism were achieved, would global social media be a realistic or even desirable goal?
Huge question, I know. I mean it practically in terms of computing power and all the resources needed for tech - could the world sustain it, SHOULD the world sustain it?
Societally, would people drift away from social media being so central to their lives anyway? I think I would if the world around me actually satisfied me.
oooooh, look, a commons! we know what to do with it. oh no, it’s shit now. oh well.
On the other hand it is very interesting to see the cycle of urban development and decay but in a non-physical space
True, it’s been really interesting to see it replicated at alarming speeds. Monopolizing happening on time frames of a decade that previously took a century. It’s tough to get people to understand systems that move at a glacial pace. The ocean taking a foot of beach a year can be ignored for a lifetime, etc. The rapid pace of things on the internet, the very pace that enabled all that “fast money” make it easier for people to track degradation in real time.
ok but what if there is a hypothetical cat in the box which may be considered simultaneously both alive and dead, while it is unobserved in a closed box, as a result of its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur? You need to open the box to see if it is alive or dead