418 karma · joined February 22, 2022
Maybe... don't be so greedy? You'll have lots of time.
"aiming to make [a] (billions in) profit" absolutely does mean exploiting your customers. Hence data egress fees.
But the author and whoever deals with their complaints are not interested in any other point of view - literally, there was no reason given on the ban and when I challenged it, no response.
> Make your own post proving how right you are
It's really not like that, my wife is involved in the creative arts too, this has been discussed and considered here a lot. I was active 20 years ago and learned a lot about how 'the cancer' GPL became legally normal. Even if it was like that, how is a one-shot platform perma-ban encouraging that outcome?
If you're posting short messages with a reply text box, you can expect to get replies, and the replies are going to reflect how your post was received, no matter how it was sent.
It works both ways - I replied to a post from an artist really enraged with AI and pointed out it's no different from a human artist seeing art and incorporating it into their style; that radio dealt with this in the US by legislating 'compulsory licenses' so the outcome is unclear.
The response was an immediate perma-ban from mastadon.social... this is not crypto right wing content they are unable to process anything except agreement.
People report they gained from having to 'move up a level', without kids you are someone's son or daughter and that's it. Having kid(s) you become someone's father or mother as well which changes you hopefully for the better.
Someone has to pop the next generation out. They will look much like whoever did that. They won't look or think like the ones who decided to sit it out.
It's just nonsense...