@umbrella @cyberpunk007 Some big UK brands don't run on an "all money is for one guy" model. John Lewis (dept store) and Waitrose (supermarket) are a partnership: the staff own it. Then we have lots of Co-operatives but the main one is mostly known for being a supermarket: member/ownership is £1 and you can vote at the AGM, get discounts and choose charities. It's not perfect - they all exist in a capitalist system - but there are other ways of running businesses that aren't for pure profit.
@MystikIncarnate @tiredofsametab I quite like this framing from a UK ad. https://youtu.be/V6ChTqII-Yk sometimes it's just not the best tool for the job.
Been watching @TechConnectify 's latest?! He has some interesting stats on the subscriptions feed on YT in there - and yes, it's shockingly low.
I think people want plug and play. Maintaining subs isn't work as such after you've set it up, but it does take that initial setup. https://youtu.be/QEJpZjg8GuA
Yep and a street with dead storefronts increasingly becomes a dead street.
over time I'll probably end up moving over to Lemmy tbh. I think I'd prefer more of a forum vibe. I was never a Redditor so I didn't "get" it until I started following Lemmy feeds.
Same. Plus I came back here because Bluesky got too noisy so I'm kind of happy if it stays small!
I've seen a few larger creators say the reply management is bad at scale, too. The thing I mostly like is that here I am, reading Lemmy from Mastodon.
sorry, I'm viewing this from mastodon so the setup's different.
@btaf45 @nossaquesapao thank god someone had pointed this out because I'm old and I've been getting confused. Nokia 3310 all the way
@alekwithak @techforwhat Norton Antivirus is still at it
@Witchfire @Soup it's illegal in London but not elsewhere in the UK. The stupid thing, though, is that it's illegal everywhere in the UK to *drive* on the pavement. But you can't punish the driver of a stationary car for driving on the pavement if you didn't see them do it. Technically maybe they flew? Airlifted in?
(Plus also enforcement of most driving infractions is super lax here)
@Hossenfeffer but when it comes down to it I think really we've ceded our understanding of morality to "the market" anyway. It's bad when politicians say to do it but if "the people" follow (or if, for example, we regulate schools so they *have* to follow) and that's the only way to make it sell then it's ok. Majority rules, I guess. But my personal feeling is that when it comes to pure morality it's about where the power lies. And often that's the power of controlling the narrative.
@Hossenfeffer as with everything it usually boils down to who has the power/control. An (adult) reader can choose what they read or how they interpret it, and can also often control what a child reads and how that child interprets it too. A subject cannot choose how they are read about, so it is up to the writer and publisher to control that message and reduce misinterpretation where possible. It's a similar framework to cultural appropriation or "doing an accent". Are you punching up or down?
@Hossenfeffer well "this is offensive [to the subject]" is more valid than "this is dangerous [to the reader]" for one. A subject can't choose what the reader thinks of them afterwards - they have to hope that the reader understands enough context to realise they are, actually, equally human. A reader, in contrast, gets to choose whether they agree with the premise. Otherwise history would have destroyed all copies of every religious book, or Mein Kampf or the Little Red Book or Das Kapital.
@Hossenfeffer @racemaniac n*r is deemed a slur *by the group it is used about*. "Transgender" is not. Changing references to be more inclusive/respectful of a group is very different to erasing the existence of a group entirely.
@penquin to clarify, yes, it has loads of standard ebooks on there but it's up to your library how many copies, if any, of anything in the catalogue to make available. My library usually has about 3-4 copies of anything popular and you get them for two weeks, but you can delay the hold if your turn comes up and you're busy reading something else. If anything is crazy popular they will review and make more available to reduce the waiting time.
@penquin probably depends on your library but mine has plenty of normal books on there.
@lepinkainen @penquin Kobo has a basic browser so you probably could. I downloaded a few copyright-free books from standardebooks.org directly onto my Kobo the other day.