Most of the points listed here don’t matter a hoot to the average user.

Weirdness. Anyway, kudos for being one of the few people actively supporting FOSS monetarily!

Now you’re faced with that old dilemma: to pay or not to pay. (Yes, you may face this very dilemma reading this story in The Atlantic.)

At least they’re self aware.

https://archive.ph/yu3mr for the lazy

I almost got banned over there just for asking that

Huh. Why, what was the reasoning there?

This is the desired consequences of his actions. This is how he stays in power and out of jail.

More like capitalism is hitting hard

If it helps, I’m not one either. But I’ve spent time in Vietnam and I’m not sure which aspect of their society would be described as communism

I’m not sure they ascribe to any communist practices outside of their party name…

Yeah, lemmy is insanely illogical on this topic. Services cost money to run, and the average user is not going to self host anytime in the foreseeable future. I have yet to hear anybody offer a vision of how things might reasonably work without ads OR subscriptions.

Only in the BDSM subgenre

I’m not seeing the issue here

And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?

Start paying for stuff. Subscriptions, etc.

Would you sit in a chair in an empty, featureless room and not move out of it for a year? I’d give you a million dollars.

If you had to think about that, now consider multiplying that by a billion, for the same reward.

Why? Converting heat into electricity is the easy part, it requires no new tech

Young people should be less pampered and willing to “eat bitterness”

Yep, awesome idea. I assume you didn’t read before commenting?

Why? Bitwarden has a free tier you don’t have to self host

That makes sense, thanks!

Can somebody explain how poor language skills relate to the UK paying more? The article just makes it seem obviously correlated

Oh right, how could I forget.

Rip Disney animators, you did your jobs well

Lola bunny, creating an entire generation of furries.