You're forgetting that with the microchips in vaccines, they can control our thoughts, so most of the participants don't need to be willing or aware. Cuts it down to just a few people in control of the 5G vaccine chip program.
Historically, even the "lottery winning" successful artists got such bad deals. The Beatles (famously, I thought, but I'm having trouble finding a source today...) received one penny for every dollar earned, but a fraction of that penny was held back for marketing, and another, and another...
I still haven't done a github forensic comment analysis to determine when they said what, but there are multiple PRs and issues on the project where the devs say that posts are not supped to be deleted just because the OP deletes it. According to Dessalines and nutomic (sp?), only the most egregious posts should be completely deleted, which they said should be ijnthe hands of admins.
This is to preserve comment integrity. But the actual implementation is not that now AFAICT.
Edit: not unironic that I went looking for the post where I discussed this a week or two ago, and its deleted. I commented this there:
Looking through the Lemmy github, its hard to determine what is designed behavior. The devs are on record saying that deleted posts are visible if you have the link, visible but only if logged in, visible but only for mods and admins, deleted permanently.
They refer to the right to be forgotten, but also that comments add value and allowing a poster to effectively delete them is unwanted.
I can't figure out what is the most recent "as designed" behavior.
So it was a financial flop? I usually ignore those metrics and go by my own feelings. I liked it. Could have been better, but I wasn't groaning the entire time or wishing it was done differently. I enjoy watching powerful women being awesome, so I had fun. Their learning to work with the power glitch was cool.
And isn't that par for the course? Marvel movies have sequels and prequels and a very linear relationship on purpose.
Not sure why the movie with three female leads is the one getting shade for having to watch previous content for it all to make the most sense. Oh, wait...
I'm for publishers and other representatives of the old system pulling away from the digital world close to entirely. Their whole business model requires scarcity that used to exist when creators were on the other side of the world and fans were lucky to have them come within 200 miles for a chance to enjoy them, and in the meantime, want to buy a record to experience them at home.
Now, creators can be in our hands, on our desks, and easily in our living rooms. The middlemen that brought those scarce physical objects to us (records, tapes, vhs and audio, books, etc) aren't needed anymore, because the distribution of the art or idea is instant and on demand and already paid for by the communications package we all subscribe to.
Fans can connect directly with creators, who no longer need millions of fans to give them a huge slice of overall music (or other creative work) revenue. Just a few hundred devoted fans is enough to live comfortably, instead of being a superstar.
I'm dreaming, though...
ETA: the publishers could rethink their role and evolve to help creatives reach their audience, but, currently, they impede that. Creatives do better (per fan) when they know their fans and can connect directly with them.
The music industry welcomed the development, stating that a service that helps infringers evade prosecution through anonymization also acts illegally.
But a service that artificially inflates revenues with shady accounting of song plays while simultaneously withholding payments toward creators, that's totally not criminal.
-Also the music industry
Copyright laws based in the eighteenth century sure are awesome when applying analog scarcity to the digital world! /s
After reading the adalytics report, it sounds more like ads that were meant to be viewed mid-stream and (presumably) on YouTube content, only when clicked, were instead served on auto-play, looping and muted on third-party websites that donn meet the standards of the sold product.
So like you said, but it seems more that buyers thought their ads would run on certain locations and circumstances that ensured higher viewer interest, and instead were being charged for ads played off screen, behind other ads, and some even viewed by "declared bots".
One point I forgot to make above: I'm not sure if we can say the Q3 2023 revenue growth can be related to the new ad-blocking-blocking or not, but I suspect there's a piece of that in there.
Looking through the Lemmy github, its hard to determine what is designed behavior. The devs are on record saying that deleted posts are visible if you have the link, visible but only if logged in, visible but only for mods and admins, deleted permanently.
They refer to the right to be forgotten, but also that comments add value and allowing a poster to effectively delete them is unwanted.
I can't figure out what is the most recent "as designed" behavior.
Having to disable protected services to stop updates from rebooting in the middle of a nine hour encode was it for me. Checking on my encode at what should have been 90% and find my PC at the login screen was it for me. Handbrake works better for me in Linux, too.
You're forgetting that with the microchips in vaccines, they can control our thoughts, so most of the participants don't need to be willing or aware. Cuts it down to just a few people in control of the 5G vaccine chip program.
You're welcome.