wolftune

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by wolftune 5mo ago
Spirit was killed by illegal predatory pricing!! There's no reason the corporate criminals who do this stuff would go easy on competition run by different people. The answer is anti-trust enforcement (and related enforcing of the law)
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by wolftune 5mo ago
Price discrimination at all is not the same as individualized prices . And really the issue conflates two things: 1, privacy and surveillance pricing ; 2, AI profit-maximizing. Even if Netflix or others do price-discrimination, the AI-p
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by wolftune 4y ago
This is just software folks trying to speculate about economics and not finding the right sources to make sense of things. The KEY distinction between software and house is abundance vs scarcity. Once software and house both exist, software
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by wolftune 5y ago
* It is easier to avoid temptation than to resist it.* - Dan Ariely
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by wolftune 6y ago
Not sure what you mean by "open place", we (too messily right now) are tracking stuff at https://gitlab.com/groups/snowdrift/-/issues and there's a needs-updating semi-outdated page https:&#x2
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by wolftune 6y ago
You are thinking of tip4commit. Gittip later became Gratipay and then closed (but the fork at Liberapay still exists). Gittip never collected contributions for people who didn't first sign up. Gittip/Gratipay did other reckless
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by wolftune 6y ago
No easy answers. We're trying to address that at Snowdrift.coop but are ourselves struggling volunteers not getting fully launched still (but not giving up, still at it). Most efforts do seem focused on corporate open-source. The under
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by wolftune 6y ago
> We've been around since 2014 (before Patreon!) Patreon was announced in 2013 I think. But Snowdrift.coop still was started first, as the first rough prototype proposal was up online in early 2013 actually. (This is a bit interna
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by wolftune 6y ago
If we didn't have our own issues with zero-funding and all-volunteer efforts, we'd have gotten Snowdrift.coop launched by now (we're still working on it, hope to show some real public updates soon). Our focus on 'crowdma