Metaright

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Alternative take: Piracy is, at worst, morally neutral, and does not have a significant adverse effect on the profits of the people who produce media.

Calm down.

This is your world on late-stage capitalism.

I think I’d rather not give the company money at all.

Paying for her cab fare home sounds reasonably polite.

Elaborate.

That’s not great, but I don’t think it would be utterly terrible.

I’ve never heard of Epiphany before. Anyone here have input?

You will own nothing, and you will be happy.

Oh, that person was definitely insulting people and accusing them of addiction, and it wasn’t cool at all. I just think the whole “let people enjoy things” retort is ridiculous and overdone.

I see. My apologies for misunderstanding you.

More clarification would be helpful, I agree.

the same way each other digital storefront does

I’m not sure if I’m understanding you correctly, but “everyone else is doing evil too” is not an incredibly effective defense against doing evil.

I used to see reports that you could “carry over” your account from one instance to another. Do you have any details on this, or whether this also works between different services (e.g. KBin and Lemmy)?

Rights are not a purely legal concept. You can have rights that are not codified by law.

How about letting people enjoy things?

How is this person’s criticism preventing you from enjoying things?

I bet the Deck has a lot to do with this.

Lemmy is so much better than Reddit! Anyway, the admins of this instance are deciding what you’re allowed to see, just like Reddit.

I agree, human.

I append “site:Reddit.com” (I know, I know) to basically every search I perform. It’s the only reliable way at this point to see things written genuinely by real people.