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by amrocha 3y ago
Hosting costs money and you're getting that for free, so there's something else going on there. You're paying for PayPal on their margin.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Well yeah, but almost nobody is in that position and that's the problem. You could always help out the people around you. Until everyone in our society is taken care of by default, these noble businesses will keep being extremely rare.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Calling it the "ethical choice" was a mistake on my part. It's more of an "ethical calculus" between doing right by your family, and doing right by your users. So it's not that choosing your family is unethical
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by amrocha 3y ago
Sure, and that's why most people would sell. Having a family doesn't "absolve you" from ethics, but it means that you have to weight doing right by your family vs doing right by your users. Most people choose their famil
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by amrocha 3y ago
I think free is the right word. A "strong social fabric" is necessary for a truly free place. The US is not very free.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Yes, you can get that for cheaper, but then you're not the customer you're the product. If you tried rolling your own solution you'd be paying more than 20$ per month.
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by amrocha 3y ago
I'm not dismissing that, but most artists sell out given the chance. The thing is that the gap between "breaking even" and "life changing money" is huge for most artists. You wouldn't sell out for 50K per year,
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by amrocha 3y ago
A few mil won't get you those things, but they'll guarantee your basic necessities. For example, my dad is working into his 70s. If I could fund his retirement I would. And here's the kicker: you can always go build something
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by amrocha 3y ago
I agree with you on not wanting to fuck the users over either. Personally I don't want to do that. But the reality is, I have other things I need in life too, and those things require money. My dad is working into his 70s, what if I co
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by amrocha 3y ago
I haven't seen anyone else with my perspective on ads, so I thought I'd share it. I believe ads actively make life worse. Modern ads are based on creating wants, rather than addressing needs. The more wants you have, the less sati
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by amrocha 3y ago
Well no, web technologies have evolved for the better, and browsers enabled that. Security patches have to be shipped. That takes resources to build.
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by amrocha 3y ago
I think this is the long play that most people aren't seeing, or are willfully ignoring. Just like Netflix did, eventually youtube will jack up the price of the ad free option and introduce ads to the basic subscription. Enshittificati
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by amrocha 3y ago
Here's a hypothetical scenario: - You're running the successor to Bandcamp - You're making good money, employ a couple staff - Epic comes to you offering millions to buy your business The rational choice is to sell. Would you
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by amrocha 3y ago
What's wrong with a paid storefront for artists? Considering the rest of the ecommerce ecosystem, 20$ seems fair. Have you considered that 20$ is just the cost of doing business? Discoverability is a problem yes, but I don't know
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by amrocha 3y ago
There's no indication that they faced any problems at all. Epic bought them when investment money was abundant, they probably made an offer that the owners couldn't refuse. A year later, cash is harder to come by, epic sells off b
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by amrocha 3y ago
The company was sold to epic, who then sold it off again a couple months later after staff unionized, and now they're laying half the company off. That does not seem like a good thing in any sense of the word.
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by amrocha 3y ago
I hope you see how sad that statement is. Kids in truly free places ride the train around the entire city by themselves.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Huh, I thought that wasn't allowed by the card issuer rules. Isn't that why a lot of places don't take Amex? Because the fees are higher but they can't add a surcharge to cover it?
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by amrocha 3y ago
Thank you for the funniest comment and reply I've ever seen here. The libertarian version of the I Made This meme.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Facebook aren't "creeps", which is what the original comment was about
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by amrocha 3y ago
I live in Japan and see Chinese livestreamers walking around all the time. Stores are allowed to refuse their business, but it's not illegal to record others in public. Whether this counts as a hidden camera isn't up to me, but si
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by amrocha 3y ago
Don't worry nobody wants photos of you and your family
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by amrocha 3y ago
There's nothing illegal about these as long as you're not doing anything illegal. It's not illegal to take pictures of people in places where there's no expectation of privacy.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Yeah of course, but there's also the people that got sick of the subway and bought a car, right? Hopefully they could buy a bicycle instead but with theft being what it is and how dangerous the streets are there's even less people
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by amrocha 3y ago
If it was a homebrew project then sure, but this isn't viable for commercial projects: - The platform holders can and will ban software built without the official SDK - You'd get delayed access to patches, which might break compat
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by amrocha 3y ago
We're talking about a viable alternative to proprietary game engines. Yes, I know it's possible to reverse engineer the consoles, but that doesn't make it a viable alternative for the games industry.
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by amrocha 3y ago
Look at the other comments in this thread, the reason is more complicated than that. Open source tools might be fine but game engines can't be open source if they want to support console builds because that would disclose proprietary i
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by amrocha 3y ago
That's a really useful comment, thank you!
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by amrocha 3y ago
Gotcha, so it's not that open source isn't possible, the industry just needs to invest in community support for an engine
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by amrocha 3y ago
Are open source tools banned on playstation and switch?

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