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by fleddr 4y ago
This doesn't match my experience, and I run a photo community myself. You're absolutely right that people are generally fairly clueless about licenses, especially in the amateur domain. And the main implication of that is that the
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Model release is a good point but in many situations where people are photographed it does not apply. When you make photos of yourself or your family or even of people in public spaces, you do not require a model release. And I imagine this
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I agree, but why would one share wedding photos using an open license like Creative Commons?
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"Pictures are clearly personally identifiable data, so storing them violates the GDPR if you don't have permission to do so." Wouldn't a Creative Commons license express this permission?
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The point of what? You think there's no point to life if you can't visit it?
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No, I think the effect of "toxic positivity" is found wherever you create a small community, whether that be Reddit, Mastodon, or anything else. Toxic positivity isn't necessarily about banning, it's rather "soft si
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I think today it translates into every platform due to the highly polarized political landscape. This sorts people into just 2 buckets, after which each bucket is dominated by radicals or semi-radicals. That's why I dislike the term &q
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I personally started blogging in 2001 so I feel qualified to inject some opinions. Whilst the early blogging scene was cool, we should not glorify it too much. Even then it wasn't mainstream. Most people did not blog and the few that d
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There's no singular replacement currently that meets those conditions. Which is also the one thing almost guaranteeing Twitter's survival.
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I think Mastodon has the tendency to grow into the opposite extreme of toxicity: fragility. People as well as instances are very generously blocked, leading to perfectly peaceful bubbles. Which are not that great. There's almost perfec
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I tend to agree with the conclusions of the article but at the same time I think it leaves out a few important factors in comparing the old internet versus today's internet. First, the political macro backdrop. The extreme political po
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The answer is right there in the article: offshoring. Post-war US had close to zero economical competition for a few decades. Which is exactly the time where your grandparents and parents spent most of their adult lives in. Middle class on
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I understand the doom and gloom mindset, it feels good to air some frustrations. But you need to eradicate that mindset entirely. You should expect to collect social security. Period. And when this right comes under threat, you should fierc
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Not sure if still a thing, but years ago some registrars would register an available domain as you searched for it. They could do this instantly, at zero or near-zero costs, and then release it later if the purchase did not go through. In o
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by fleddr 4y ago
Interesting. What is the cap size?
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Thanks for writing that and showing examples with a much more serious impact. It's hard to read. You make a great point that as of then, the great centralization of the internet began. It's only heads and the tail is cut off. Soci
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Please see my answer above.
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Please see my answer above.
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My interests are so specific that if I list them, I'll dox myself. Which isn't a huge deal, but still want to stay anon here. Still, I can throw a bone by including one that is fairly generic: front-end development. My before situ
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I saw a guy on Twitter expressing how he created an instance a while ago and didn't notice anything during the recent Mastodon influx. Not a single user joined his instance. He figured this is due to not being listed properly on some o
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by fleddr 4y ago
Let's first appreciate the parent of your comment being down-voted for saying leftists don't take critique, confirming the point. In my experience, the insufferable ones tend to dominate communities, making the entire place unappe
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The frustrating part is that excellent content, the type that is relevant, well researched, well written, that stands head and shoulders above anything else is out there. More than ever before. I know this because I'm subscribed to lot
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Panda has taught me a lot. Just before it hit, I had a small site that was on the rise in terms of traffic. A hobbyist site, no ads, all original content, and very much not "thin". An enthusiast site, much like the original intern
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The funny thing is that the replacement word inevitably becomes insulting. For example, when you say to your friend that he's very "special", we all know what's up.
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I think you didn't stay on top of developments for 2 weeks, because the new thing is to basically call any activity "ableist". Ableist and privileged, magic words to bring anything down. You can also get more specific. For ex
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Exactly. We can now eat the best foods from all over the world, enjoy music, stories, art, all of it. How very cynical and destructive does one have to be to police that? This movement is miserable.
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Totally with you, but the problem is that the amount of places where "no" is not an option, is growing. Meaning, it's personally risky to go against this narrative in some contexts.
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Water - refreshing fluid needed to biologically function. - used to drown witches in I mean, how long do we want this list to be? Thank god (or any deity of your chosing) we can outsource language to AI soon.
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Combine your two conclusions and sex (material reality) ceases to exist yet non-binary (an identity, not a sex) is to be respected as if it is a hard biological fact. After all, you don't decide to be non-binary, you just are. Yet this
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That's the clever thing about this setup. You can't stop it because any pushback makes you a "fascist" or any other "ist". It's shielded from any type of criticism by shame and mob justice. You can't

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