Thank you, the unfortunate truth is that we’re a community of people who just left a platform for their insatiable greed so its to be expected that when you say that companies should be able to make money within reason people get tight about it
Thank you, the unfortunate truth is that we’re a community of people who just left a platform for their insatiable greed so its to be expected that when you say that companies should be able to make money within reason people get tight about it
rambaroo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The other problem is people treating small/medium content creators like they’re some corporate entity fucking people over when they’re not. The entitlement and sheer hypocrisy on this site is incredible to see.
FOSS has created this childish expectation that other people should spend their time creating shit for lemmy-type nerds for free, but that is not sustainable in a capitalist economy. Software only gets away with it because software devs make a comfortable living with enough free time to work on FOSS, or they actually get paid to work on it by some corp.
People applying the same principle to creatives disgust me. A lot of smaller channels are not rolling in money, they’re making enough for a decent living or some side cash. There’s a huge difference between that and some giant media corporation ripping people off for content. Blocking ads and sponsorships is immoral and downright criminal imo, and it disgusts me to see so many people trying to normalize stealing from other workers.