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"When I picture it in my head I think of the early web as more of a library. Over time it has transitioned into a shopping mall." - chris_f (via HN)

@sir
I'm just saying laziness may have been the biggest motivator for them here.

@sir
And did anyone offer a pull request that would fix it during that year?

Here's how it works on sourcehut:

You pay us the subscription fee of your choice and you get access to our services. We spend it on maintaining and upgrading the hardware, and paying for staff to handle development, operations, support, and on-call.

Because we don't take money from investors, we're only accountable to users, and if we aren't working in your interests, we lose our revenue. We are incentivized to work for you, not to generate a return.

Because we're running 100% free software, we're held accountable because anyone can take our shit and run it on their own servers, or even bootstrap a competing company using our own software. We've made it easy to run out out of business if we lose your trust.

@kmontenegro
It makes no sense...

> copyright holders don’t receive revenue when content is streamed illicitly from an unlicensed region

Why not just region-lock each account to the location of their payment method?

@sir
Nothing against any developers, but I've never benefited from any federation feature of my self-hosted funkwhale server...

*Federation* is the true value behind ActivityPub, and you can get that without it

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Binary Application Record Encoding in PHP, a scripting language... (WIP) @sir@sir@cmpwn.com baremessages.org

If you do any sort of programming and haven't already watched Jonathan Blow's wonderful talk, watch it now: youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kk

Teaching my MIT classes with only free/libre software 

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