Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

I recently saw a post huffing that "piracy isn't preservation" and while I REALLY do not care for people who pirate as a default just because they don't want to pay, I'm a gamer.

It is sometimes LITERALLY impossible to obtain some games. It is much, MUCH more often impossible to obtain games in which even one red cent reaches the creator, 100% resale only.

Piracy is the only possible form of long-term preservation for something digital and out of production.

I'm sure there's a tendency to always view the past as better, but the social-media-ification of the Internet has really sucked a lot of the joy out of entertaining people. When it was peripheral to the broader Internet, you spent most of your time making stuff. Now you gotta learn 8 to 12 platforms that mostly want you to act like an employee of their algorithm.

Also if your peer is a server with some level of responsibility that is different from another peer, it’s not a peer! The word peer refers to being equal. If your network is asymmetrical, it’s not #p2p. Stop. lol just stop it’s so delusional.

When my time comes I want to be buried with my cellphone and a WiFi booster.

You know … just in case.

every single word in this is truly magical

I wish we could do a slick rebrand of taxes. Paying taxes that are properly used should feel like donating to charity. You're doing your part.

If you pay for insurance, you're already ascribing to the idea that a large pool of people paying in can be cheaper and/or more effective than each person paying only after a cost is incurred.

That's taxes, baby.

Talking to a friend today who works at a BigCo that uses TypeScript. Personally, I think TS is a tax on developers’ time and attention. They mentioned they were initially unproductive with TS, but it's smooth sailing now. I responded, “Yes, but you work at a big company, you can have dedicated TS teams.”

Their response:

Local politician's ad just said: "And I'll lower taxes to help out the working class."

Umm.... taxes HELP the working class. Better roads, better transit, better social nets and programs.... all of that helps the working class.

Lowering taxes only helps the corporate, rich, and ruling class.

Now libraries are getting hit in Canada:

"She said the 'book banning people' have attended almost all board meetings since trustees voted down the review."

"...the recent scale and tone of these recent challenges mimics what is happening in the United States – albeit to a lesser extent – where religious and political activism has led to widespread book bans. "

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-library-books-have-faced-challenges-for-decades-but-a-recent-shift-has/

@mauve @evan @bengo Ideally i think corporations would not be at the table at all. that doesnt seem realistic though. if we try to exclude them altogether they'll just lie their way in. At least with W3C you need a confirmed corporate email address to join, so others can check your profile to see who you are affiliated with.

@evan @mauve @bengo more widespread is great. but if Threads attracts enough users to become the dominant player in the Fediverse, they could start closing it off or changing it in favor of themselves and to the detriment of others. So i'd like to see a diverse array of small to medium sized orgs and companies or communities embracing AP instead. the involvement of large corporations makes me uneasy.