Fuck Yankies

haha pre-installed vendor garbage go brrrrr

My god, ISP email service. I know some stragglers have their email address still where I come from, but all that was migrated to a third party email provider instead. ISP email service.

Boy, that brings back memories.

Because, as always, the poor are kept poor and the rich are kept rich.

Is it because some of those fees are bullshit fees that target tech-ilitirate people?

@autotldr@lemmings.world

It begs the question… what’s the boardroom random bullshit timeline?

When was it random cloud bullshit go and when was it random Blockchain bullshit go, and what other buzzwords almost guaranteed Silicon Valley tech bros tossed money in your face and at what point in time were they applicable?

Fríggin’ finally. Talk to some of the fediverse people on Matrix or Discord regarding monetization and they’ll lose their tiny little minds.

The most belligerent ones seems like a bunch of anarchists and tankies who couldn’t give a flying crap about independent or small businesses, such as content creators, all the while forcing content creators to stay on the large platforms (like YouTube, Patreon, etc) unknowingly going nowhere.

The fediverse needs to spearhead ethical monetization, and no: relying on the “honour system”, unlimited CC distribution and attribution while hoping you’ll get money through BitBucket donations is not a way to pay rent. It’s yee olde “trust me bros”, but instead of massive corporations, it’s a boys club of ideologically finagling molluscs.

Give me exclusive (or locked content), direct donation functions and subscription functions. Build it, and they will come. Ignore it, and most likely some unethical businesses will co-opt everything (like Meta) and just steamroll the whole movement.

Be anti-capitalist. That’s fine. But don’t be one of those guys who think you’re just one day away from the revolution. That’s dumb. Let’s bring monetization to the fediverse!

How to minimize API usage: burn the user.

These companies getting creative, you guys.

Musk uses “piss off users”.

It hurt itself in the confusion.

Sigh… Guess we gotta copyright the human body and face. I fucking hate this timeline.

“Listen, this sun… whatever the hell it thinks it is, is coming to ruin your life. Now I propose you not only subsidize building the sun blocker, but also pay us monthly fees afterwards to prevent this sinful ball of devilish fire from ruining your life…”

Some board room somewhere, probably…

Little did ikiru realise he was forshadowing the future, as the abuse would be found to be more identifiable than fingerprints or facescans - and as RATM played their last show ever in 2025 Ikiru would spread them, as per the dictates of the almighty Ticketmaster.

All hail the Ticketmaster.