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That's a lot of black to make sure the clothes glue to your skin in the sun.

On Lemmy, it's a sin to make money off your work, especially if it is opensource core projects providing paid infrastructure/support. You can only ask for donations and/or quit. No in-between.

Piracy from the big guy who's exploiting little guys to make and sell products is fair.

Pirating things off the little guy, who's barely making a living is how the little guys stop making content on their own, and will instead opt to work for the big guy who can guarantee a livelihood, no matter how small. If you think you as a society isn't contributing to it then just look around.

And It is only getting worse. While you can fantasize about it, indie-anything who get lucky are exceedingly rare for a reason. But you won't stop removed about how everything from the Big Bad has gone to shit. It couldn't totally be because everyone thinks they're entitled to others hard work, because they paid for "the internet".

But as always, entitled pricks are how we end up on ever more convulsive state of the world, no matter which side you're on. So carry on, ig.

Guy has always been a far right-wing cuck

why would they want to anger their global surveillance channels?

Sounds like you should go and join a religious cult. They'll probably have lots of fake shit for you to listen and see.

Also I remember while teamspeak was paid, discord was free.

Most professional programmers I meet use Linux. A few even scrap MacOS out to install Linux on them.

Internet is not a place for public discourse, it never was. it's the game of numbers where people brigade discussions and make it confirm to their biases.

Post something bad about the US with facts and statistics in US centric reddit sub, youtube video or article, and see how it divulges into brigading, name calling and racism. Do that on lemmy.ml to call out china/russia. Go to youtube videos with anything critical about India.

For all countries with massive population on the internet, you're going to get bombarded with lies, delfection, whataboutism and strawman. Add in a few bots and you shape the narrative.

There's also burying bad press with literally downvoting and never interacting.

Both are easy on the internet when you've got the brainwashed gullible mass to steer the narrative.

Everyone prefers free until they have to contribute to actually making things better. Most popular opensource project are funded by corporations for a reason.