Before saying something, ask yourself:

1. Is it kind
2. Is it true?
3. Will it summon the elder gods to bring slaughter and destruction to this insignificant speck of a world?
4. Is it necessary?

I think it´s totally ok that mastodon is not for everyone. enjoy the your nerd community. happy 2023 folks.

👉 https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-internet-wants-to-be-fragmented

#internet #socialmedia

40 years ago, giant entertainment companies embarked on a slow-moving act of arson. The fuel for this arson was #copyright #TermExtension (making copyrights last longer), including *retrospective* copyright term extensions that took works out of the #PublicDomain and put them back into copyright for decades. Vast swathes of culture became off-limits, pseudo-property with absentee landlords, with much of it crumbling into dust.

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