I really enjoyed reading your take. Thanks for posting it. IP is theft.

Fair enough. In bad times, that is true for me as well. But these times pass eventually. At least they always have in the past.

Same. I mostly try to be honest with myself as I found that copium rarely is helpful. We‘re in this mess now and we can either sulk or get going. I choose to get going day after day. Hows that for aspirational statements? :)

Being cynical and defeatist is a coping mechanism. Like racism, its a form of dealing with a continuously shitty situation while not addressing the real problem.

If you look at the small amount of people that drink 1000$ wine bottles for lunch while you‘re struggling to pay the rent, then you find the problem these cynics are unable to address.

Hi friend! Good to see this insightful comment comes from you.

Iirc there should be a way to complain to the authorities about this, right?

I didnt even know about this one. Pretty awesome. Is it a drop in replacement for jellyfin and plex or different?

https://wiki.servarr.com/

*Then every studio and media corp decided to take us back to piracy.

There, ftfy. ;)

It is pretty good but pretty reduced in functionality imo. Thats why I generally suggest fluffychat. Its nowhere perfect either but it works better on a daily basis for me.

I know. I said semi abandoned because element x is their focus, which is the reason they are not adding features to element and are hesitant to put in fixes for things that would require massive changes.

This is still not ideal because the flagship app isnt advancing in a good speed. Thats why I dont recommend it.

Matrix is great and works great.

Element is a semi abandoned client that happened to come from some of the makers of matrix.

Use literally anything else. Fluffychat works for me. Element is okay for debugging sometimes so I keep it handy.

But the commenters point stands. In matrix, you can send whatever you like, as illegal or morally corrupt as you wish because its nobody‘s fucking business AND e2ee.

If someone on my server sends csam, I would never know unless someone reported it to me. Because thats how privacy works.

*taken down.

There, ftfy.

This might prove useful if the EU goes forward with chat control and maybe DPI further down the road.

0.25 atm. For the fleet!

This is tremendously helpful! Thank you.

From that I would assume that there is need for a federated service that blatantly copies this technique. It is indestructible and not profit oriented which will make it a great alternative for people to just publish to on the side. The review process of course needs to be worked out so that it can have good reputation. As in stack overflow, senior authors review junior authors, etc. one could also start by using known accounts of the proprietary journals as base for peer reviews, etc.

I‘m not a scientist, I just create a lot of stuff and have a strong tendency towards open source and federated media.

It feels to me like you‘re saddling the horse from behind.

Most companies will not be okay with someone using their stuff, especially not if the person or company makes any money with it.

Instead, I would ask in what cases you dont have the company find out about it. Like, if you share movies, shows, etc. Do so in a country that doesnt comply with takedown requests etc.

But yes, you should rely on open source stuff as much as possible.

Thats exceptionally insightful. Thank you for sharing some rate wisdom.

Everyone should consider joining the fleet. Just to make a statement condemning anti consumer action. We should have regular „I joined the fleet“ events where people can explain the positive impact their service will have. I view piracy as a morally justified choice and as a way of expressing dissent in a way that actually hurts.

In character at this point.

Although thats probably not whats going to happen if google gets broken up but I‘ll still happily pay for firefox just for the sake of breaking up google.

Death to megacorporations.