I never understood, and never will understand this.
Even when I was a poor teenager and pirated essentially everything I always knew that this content only exists because someone is paying for it.
How do people go around feeling like the best VoD platform to ever exist, available on every device imaginable, optimized for years by best software engineers the world has, should be free, and without ads is beyond me.
This, my friends, is a classic lemmy argument: "how about someone whom I already don't pay anything go and do more work for less pay, so I can enjoy my content free, without ads, and don't need to bother with an AdBlock".
How about, you, anon, set up a server, provide a simple upload API, and convince your favorite content creator to upload there? Since it's no costs for them and very little work, they might. Maintain that for a year, then we'll talk.
Well, now I need to choose between dictatorship with a free speech and without. What are my options really.
You use the word fascism in a way that it appears you need to look up it's meaning in the dictionary.
If those kids could read, they'd be very upset.
I thought we were building a better reddit here. But turned out we're building an echo chamber where snowflakes can whine to each other all day long. Not sure what this really achieves as 99.9% of them always agree with each other.
Political activism is only valid if it actually reaches someone who disagrees, and when done in a way that it might convince the other party to at least consider your points.
Lemmy fundamentally fails at both simultaneously. Kinda explains why US politics is such a shitshow.
There was a pond called reddit. The water got too warm and all the yellow frogs migrated to the swamp nearby. They now claim that if you're not a yellow frog, there's something wrong with you, and they'll kick you out of their swamp if you don't turn yellow tomorrow.
Next.
This market domination is non-discriminatory. It's not like you go to your local car dealerships and they don't sell you any other brand than GM. Everyone on the internet is free to go and use any other service. It's dominant because users are happy with their ads or subscription fees instead of investing their time into using a competing product.
Is a french flag fine? I don't have any other at hand
It's a bigger echo chamber than any niche reddit community. Literally a hive mind.
Hard to avoid a US political debate on lemmy. Always the same posts about the same threesome of Trump, Musk, and Kamal. And those are top voted posts on every possible sub.