davetapley
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- Comment on 'Your Turn': United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla 11 months ago:
This. I’m a computer programmer, never been in a union, but after twenty years of startups I cannot believe how good it is to be at a small, stable, employee owned company.
Only looking back do I realize that the people doing the actual work were never in control, and just how damaging that is.
To pour you life and soul into building something (time, and time again), and then have it taken away from you again, and again.
Never going back.
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 1 year ago:
Well, not necessarily, right? It could be funded any number of ways, but on YT you’re locked in to either watching their ads, or paying their premium.
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 1 year ago:
Well yes, this is the problem isn’t it:
- Monopoly X sucks
- Federated alternatives developed
- People complain that there’s not enough content
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 1 year ago:
A lemmy for video streaming
Ask and you shall receive: joinpeertube.org
There are even companies springing up who will run and host it for you, for a price, of course.
- Comment on Why isn't there a "Spotify premium" for news? 1 year ago:
This seems like a direction ground.news could go in.
- Comment on Why isn't there a "Spotify premium" for news? 1 year ago:
It could be set up in a way that the publications get paid per view of their articles
This is idea behind the BAT token and the Brave Browser¹. Unfortunately it won’t break through paywalls, but ad blocking is pretty good and in theory is less guilt.
¹ although, there is this