Ah similar to Canadian content (CanCon) policies in Canada. Got it.
avidamoeba
joined 1 year ago
Wait, what does "to support music in the country" mean? Spotify already pays the majority of their revenue to record labels. That is funding for the music industry. Aren't French labels a part of this scheme?
Not a Spotify fan, just thinking about this on the basis of some facts I'm aware of.
Weird. Perhaps a DNS issue? That said the domain was registered/updated a week ago, so your DNS server should have gotten the message by now.
I think you're right. Public institutions are likely good candidates for running these kinds of services, whether they're the major players or not. If the Government of Canada decided to run a Lemmy instance, I'd be on it.
I agree with that, but how? I don’t think we’re prepared for how they’re going to try take over or what that’s going to look like. If you have insight into that, that would be awesome.
I don't know about insight but I think we need the equivalent of Wikimedia Foundation that runs these kinds of services. Personally, I find non-profit/coop/both instances to use and fund them/persuade others to fund them. For example Mastodon.social is run by the non-profit behind Mastodon itself. Funding it funds one of the largest Mastodon instances and the software development effort. Lemmy.ca - my home instance is being converted to a non-profit org from and ad-hoc op. I donate monthly to that too. I'm also contributing to the Lemmy devs. I can afford to spare $30/mo on the fediverse and I do. Not everyone can but the ones who can should do it. The more people do this, the closer we're gonna get to a model where it'll cost some inconsequential amount of money for most people who donate - e.g. $2-3/mo. Having a set of financially stable hosts and development should provide the reliable alternative to corpo instances we need.
This will happen naturally if the fediverse grows. It's on us to keep the worker-run instances as viable alternatives so that the corporate players can't take their toys and leave the sandbox without their users having an alternative.
I'm really excited about the marketplaces. We desperately need a federated, trustworthy version of Kijiji/Craigslist/Facebook Marketplace, perhaps even EBay. These are important public services used by a lot of people and have been historically underdeveloped, underserved and overexploited by their centralised stewards.
I had no idea. I am well aware of Lunacycle's toxicity from endless-sphere.com.
Yes?
Since before the exodus or after?
It "starts instantly" or some shit.