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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • It’s totally dumb because it’s not about getting a good deal for consumers or artists, purely about rights-holders maximising revenue. If they can’t negotiate a good enough deal in a region they’ll simply not allow it to be streamed. This is what happens when they separate the cultural value of “content” from the monetary value of it, the perceived desirability. Viewers and listeners want a good show to watch or album to hear, rights-holders simply want to get a good deal, regardless of what the stuff it.





  • Recently finished reading David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs and in it he talks about asking the question who brings social value to society? A lot of rich people do not, especially the super-rich who largely get their wealth from exploitation and rentierism. Having a society that properly values socially-useful people would incentivise more socially-valuable action. Until the people defining what current society’s standard of success is move on nothing is going to change.








  • I like to think, in a similar way to Mastodon, a fair proportion of users here want it to be something totally different and not a new version of Reddit. It doesn’t have to be big, or popular, or make headlines, as long as it is a good community with lots of discussion and information that’ll do for me.

    Personally I would like to leave all the “drama” bollocks behind, that whole atmosphere around the large general-interest subs which dominated and sadly defined The Reddit Experience for casual users and people outside. That’s my main desire when not wanting this to be Reddit 2.0, that and a move away from the heavily US-centric bias, in views, content and assumption it’s the default lived experience of the users.