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justin fergusonI am so fucking done with corporations building their very existence upon a foundation of user-created content, then getting greedy and deciding they can make big money by charging for that content.
I'm feeling like it's time for a general strike on people providing free content to corporations on the internet for nothing. No more posting on corporate-owned social media. No more unpaid support of Open Source projects. No more answering people's questions on StackOverflow. No more posting on Reddit. Enough is enough.
Josh (like the wine)@jferg Quite agree on SO in particular. The changes in moderation style over the past decade rewards shitty behavior and actively punishes correct answers for not being up to laughably high standards for a site asking for free content from professionals - standards that vary from mod to multitude of mod. I’ve bailed in terms of time spent and you can see I’d invested a LOT in the community.
Alan@jferg If one were to create some form of content cooperative where the users manage the business of using their content to control its use as well as benefit from any revenue generated from the content. What do people imagine is possible?
Greg@jferg I’m reluctant to post here or anywhere public nowadays.
OpenDNA⚙️@jferg These companies are only good for one buyout, if they're lucky. By the third, they're so over-valued that fuckery is guaranteed.
JohnW@jferg My take on that is AI happened to take off just as users started real efforts to own their own content (including artists, musicians, etc...). That would have meant an exodus of users from middlemen corporations selling user content on their platforms and charging egregious prices to the users per sale.
LPS@jferg
This is exactly were all wealth comes from, the enclosure...stealing from the commons then claiming it as their own. Tech is just the latest victim:(
This is exactly were all wealth comes from, the enclosure...stealing from the commons then claiming it as their own. Tech is just the latest victim:(
funnysoundmanYou escaping from Reddit as well??
Generation Zen@jferg it is the natural course for capitalism. The number must go up.
Paul J. Weiss@jferg Academic journal publishers being another good example of this. Not only do scholars not get paid for the content, they often have to pay the publisher to get published.