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by shafyy 2y ago
> Legally, it means that the company has other priorities that it must consider equally to creating profit. Ok, so it's even more vague than how I understood it. This could mean anything. Venture capital does not care about profit
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by shafyy 2y ago
How am I wrong? If I'm wrong it's that even more vague what a PBC needs to legally do to support its public cause, but in reality many PBCs end up with donating a certain % of their profits. But my understanding is that there are
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by shafyy 2y ago
You are right that it's not specifically required do donate a certain percentage of your profits. It's even more vague than that. It basically just means that you need to commit to a certain "public benefit" in your cert
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by shafyy 2y ago
No, the fact that it's a PBC does not necessarily limit the right of their investors. PBC just means that they need to commit a certain percentage of their profit to a cause. It's still a for-profit company owned by shareholders.
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by shafyy 2y ago
> There’s always somebody in charge. It’s not better when you don’t know who. This is not black and white. And to be honest, it is telling that you throw this statement into the room. Of course, there are also organization / peopl
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by shafyy 2y ago
It's not about deserving. It's about the fact that once a company grows so dominant, that they will undoubtedly exploit their position of power. Which is bad for innovation, bad for the consumers and so on.
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by shafyy 2y ago
pfraze I appreciate that you take the time to engage here. I understand that you thought that ActivityPub had challenges (rightly so) and that's why you decided to develop ATProto. ActivityPub is far from perfect and needs to be improv
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by shafyy 2y ago
In the short-term, yes. In the long-term, I hope not. You are probably right, but I want to keep supporting initiatives like ActivityPub and hope that when Bluesky fucks up, Mastodon and other services are still around.
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by shafyy 2y ago
They have done everything to have the appearance of an open protocol and use that as a competitive advantage against incumbents. However, if you look at the reality, it's a very centralized service run by the same company which control
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by shafyy 2y ago
The issues you describe are integral parts of decentralized protocols, and they can't be solved by technology. The reason Bluesky does not have these problems is because they are de facto centralized. No confusion of choosing servers i
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Thoughts on Bluesky(canolcer.com)
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by shafyy 2y ago
You can host your personal data, but as long as Bluesky Social, PBC is running the main Relay and AppView, and there's no easy way for Relays to talk to each other (like e.g. it works in Mastodon), they are in reality a centralized ser
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by shafyy 2y ago
The Bundesrat in Switzerland is also not elected directly by the people, it's elected by Congress. The Bundeskanzler in Germany are not also not elected directly by the people, they are elected by Congress.
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by shafyy 2y ago
Sadly, this is not true under neoliberal capitalism. With the correct oversimplified messaging and a lot of money, you can influence a lot of people to behave a certain way.
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by shafyy 2y ago
No doubt: Wikipedia
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by shafyy 2y ago
No, it's not ok. It fucks the whole market by subsidizing the growth with VC money. Either a big company will buy them, consolidating their power, or they will IPO and the VCs will cash out and let the public bear the cost. It fucks th
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by shafyy 2y ago
And while doing this, they fuck the whole market.
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by shafyy 2y ago
No, the other option is something like Sublime Text that has a small team working on it and is paid for by a very fair one-off payment by the customer.
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by shafyy 2y ago
For a VC-backed company, this will never ever generate enough revenue growth. So, the real answer is: "If all goes well, we will keep raising VC money and get acquired and shutdown / butchered in 5-10 years". Like Bluesky, th
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by shafyy 2y ago
I just replaced the battery in my iPhone SE 2nd gen last month. Somehow I didn't know that that was possible. Best 80 € spent ever.
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by shafyy 2y ago
There are other reasons to fine companies based on % of their revenue: If it were a fixed amount, large companies would not care about the fine, whereas smaller companies would go bankrupt. EU is trying to do something against tax havens li
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by shafyy 2y ago
Meanwhile, the world is burning and flooding. But sure, build your fucking vanity project while disrespecting every human right on the planet.
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by shafyy 2y ago
Well, I guess I have a less cynical attitude than you. Sure, goverments and supranatinal organizations are not perfect and they deserve to be criticized. But, I also believe that many people who work there do care about these issues for the
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by shafyy 2y ago
No, the Digital Market Act's goal is: " The DMA aims at ensuring a higher degree of competition in European digital markets by preventing large companies from abusing their market power and by allowing new players to enter the mar
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by shafyy 2y ago
Power
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by shafyy 2y ago
What is your track record of building businesses? With just the information from this post, you sound beyond delusional and super arrogant.
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Fucking love lazygit
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by shafyy 2y ago
I also see many people using the % or "z. B." (zum Beispiel, meaning for example) wrongly in German. Corretly, the % should have a space like this: 10 %, not 10% (as it is in English). "z. B." also should have a space, b
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by shafyy 2y ago
Of course, traveling becomes harder when you have a baby, that shouldn't come as a suprise to anybody. But I don't like the sexist tone in your post. Also, what makes you think that your situation generalizes to the OP?
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by shafyy 2y ago
This is exactly what OpenAI and other want you to believe. "OH NO, I need to use LLMs for coding otherwise I will fall behind". No, no. Most of what makes a good software engineer cannot be replaced by LLMs. A good software engine

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