Bluesky seems to work better as an alternative.
Until they run out of VC money.
Then the enshittification happens, to pay the bills.
Wasn’t that Mitt Romney and Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury? (I forget his name.) But I remember him looking like a Bond villain.
Super sketchy Russian software.
A legal “Act of God” is a term of art in legal documents, though - usually found in a force majeure clause. I don’t think you need to have a God to have an “Act of God”.
It’s just a good portion of our legal code and its terms are derived from English law from several hundred years ago.
I just looked. Do they not ship to the U.S.?
How about some A.I. bullshit in your browser?
I came here for this. Thanks for delivering!
Better system for WHOM? Tech-bros that want to steal my content as their own?
I’m a writer, performing artist, designer, and illustrator. I have thought about copyright quite a bit. I have released some of my stuff into the public domain, as well as the Creative Commons. If you want to use my work, you may - according to the licenses that I provide.
I also think copyright law is way out of whack. It should go back to - at most - life of author. This “life of author plus 95 years” is ridiculous. I lament that so much great work is being lost or forgotten because of the oppressive copyright laws - especially in the area of computer software.
But tech-bros that want my work to train their LLMs - they can fuck right off. There are legal thresholds that constitute “fair use” - Is it used for an academic purpose? Is it used for a non-profit use? Is the portion that is being used a small part or the whole thing? LLM software fail all of these tests.
They can slurp up the entirety of Wikipedia, and they do. But they are not satisfied with the free stuff. But they want my artistic creations, too, without asking. And they want to sell something based on my work, making money off of my work, without asking.
You sound like someone who has not tried to make an artistic creation for profit.
It’s not my goddamned planet monkey-boy!
The things is, they can have scads of free stuff that is not copyrighted. But they are greedy and want copyrighted stuff, too
Hey folks, nothing to see here. Just the .ml account telling us that Russian influence in the US is overblown! (Just as the DOJ shows us the tip of the iceberg of Russia desperately trying to get Trump elected.)
I’ve had relief for gum/tooth pain by just holding a whole clove on the affected area.
A marketing budget. The Fediverse has none, and we’re competing with the big boys.
They are paid for their services!
Ooh, I can’t wait to play! This looks awesome!
Yes, and…
You can follow (and use) hashtags of topics you like.
Isn’t the guy that developed Pixelfed working on a short-form video platform? That would be better than TikTok I would think.
What’s keeping me running Microsoft? A collection of Steam games that I love. Do they work on Linux now?
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