There's also an absurd amount of gamer girls entering the space thanks to "cozy desk TikTok" who get a lot of micro electronics and foreign imports, mechanical keyboards, etc. All they would've had to have done was offered pink custom keyboards with jade keycaps and make a hobby out of it, and it would've been game. Shoot you could even have sold cat ears in the same section.
Just imagined over my pixel tablet. If I wasn't using Android auto (car connection) on my phone I'd shit can that too.
They also raised the price on YouTube premium right after I got my annual subscriptions. Fuck that man. Once these companies got you locked in they take you for a ride.
I'm not sure if you mean to say people like me arguing to separate patrons, artists and the art - especially where this is open source - or people like the writer of the article in the OP.
So I'll speak to it from both ends: people naturally want to vote with their time and money. If money is seeing ads and generating crypto for someone they don't support; fine. I think everyone understands where they're coming from. On the other hand I can google github + project-name for brave and find all the code and fork it...if you don't like something about brave just fork it or use a stripped down fork.
I don't use brave to begin with but the public executions are fucking obnoxious when the product hasn't taken a unilateral shift in direction. Twitter and Reddit were proprietary platform you were locked in for if you used them daily. There was never an alternative way to use those products in their full functionality; both had to be 100% recreated on mastodon/lemmy. If you don't like Brave's CEO you can literally fork the project, remove the shit you don't like and use the work for free.
No. That is factually wrong. Brave is open source. This is more like if we discovered the creator of mastodon was donating any profits he managed to make to some bigotry party.
You wouldn't see me barking down the nice people who host mastodon or contribute to its code.
Separate the patrons, artists and art. Because it is not the same and that logic cuts all sorts of ways.
Oh believe me I get it. But at the same time the CEO didn't rename brave browser "anti woke browser" and force it to not load "woke sites man".
Shits all open source right? Even if I disagree with him politically that's on him. I can use my money to donate to my political designation and even fork the brave browser if I don't want to support it.
Elon and Spez were one way no choice fuck you CEOs. We didn't get much choice there. And they use their platforms to remind you of that. I don't really feel like brave does that at all.
Edit: I'm also going to add that I don't use brave. I also don't care much about politics outside of leave me alone, leave my neighbor alone, and make things affordable.
Holy shit man imagine if we judged every huge project by one asshole at the top. There wouldn't be a single thing to enjoy in this world.
Edit:
I am going to add more perspective to this, because holy shit people are so into eating nothing burgers.
Reddit/Twitter was a database and API that everyone was centralized onto, there was no choice. Brave you can literally fork because its open source. Aside from that this was literally the CEO's personal donation of $1000...in like 2014. Almost 10 yrs ago.
Honestly I was hoping for a more dyslexic moment where the post says "I wanted more toilet seats for fun". As if she were a totally unhinged toilet seat collector.
That is pretty cool, haven't heard of that one yet. What do you think of the exit nodes? That is usually where my problem lies with a lot of the networks I've seen. I don't want to be left holding the bag for some criminal to exit via my ISP for example.
As a citizen in the USA, I feel like late stage capitalism is really killing us via monopolies but that small-medium sized businesses still bring hope and continue to inspire. I also appreciate that if I don't like where I live I can try any of the other 49 states without needing to establish myself as a citizen, save for my drivers license to operate a vehicle. The cultures are vastly different depending on where you live. I've lived in both progressive and conservative parts of the country.
I'm paying attention more lately to what benefits state-level legislation offers. Some states offer free tuition if you graduate from high school there which is amazing.
Norway or Finland probably.
I keep hearing about Norway. A streamer from twitch went over there and got a whole education then came back to the US. I believe she had dual citizenship though.
It seems like a nice place to live. I would just worry about my neighbors being Russia.
Mastodon has this issue too, fwiw.