Nobody here is trying to force you to stop using it though.
They explained why they don't use sponsorblock, and why they believe you shouldn't either. But the choice is still yours.
Theres is a wide gap between offering a perspective on why watching the sponsorships is worthwhile, and trying to legally force you.
I was fully ready to believe that a vantablack pool would boil in direct sunlight. Not flash boil, but I excused that as the author being a bit enthusiastic.
Wasn't till the nuke that I was acting ready to call bullshit. The chlorine gas thing felt wrong, but I don't know enough about chemistry to be confident that flash boiling chlorinated water wouldn't produce chlorine gas at possibly lethal levels.
But just like the river analogy, just because it's prone to change doesn't mean a every change is inevitable.
With enough effort you can divert a river, or stop it flowing at all with a dam. Likewise if enough people look at a chaneg to language and decide "no that's dumb and I'm not doing it", then the change doesn't happen.
Otherwise I could tell you that gnark is now the word for you as an individual, and you'd have no way to tell me that I'm wrong.
If enough people are willing to actively resist the change then the change won't stick. There's nothing magic about the new thing that makes it inevitable.
That's not what they said at all.
What they said is that just because you don't agree with the opposite opinion doesn't make the person saying that opinion a troll. They may be a hateful motherfucker, but a hateful motherfucker who is trying to talk in good faith.
They aren't arguing some enlightened centrist "everyones opinions are equal" bullshit. They're just arguing that opposite opinion does not equal automatic troll.
I have opinions on when and how children should be allowed to access cigarettes, alcohol, and motorcycles. Are those opinions also boring, unnecessary, and entitled?
It only helps regular people as long as nothing breaks.
You're still beholden to the huge company that's making the panels, or the company that's installing and maintaining them. On property panels are only as decentralized as your personal ability to install maintain and repair them. Off property panels are only as decentralized as the conglomerations that own every solar farm and wind farm.
You aren't "getting away from huge companies." You're just increasing the minimum footprint and ecological disruption needed to generate the power needed for modern life. Let alone the amount of increase needed if EVs are ever going to have a chance at challenging ICE for majority market share.
Yes, but you're preaching to the choir here. The number of people who are willing to take that initiative but haven't yet is only getting smaller. So now people are thinking about how to help along the group who isn't unwilling to move, just maybe not move alone.
Part of that is building the fediverse up, more communities, more activity, more of the stuff that made us want to go on Reddit beforehand. But the other part is seeing if there's a good way to motivate the next group migration.
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Aslo we shouldn't forget that it has been a particularly hectic week for anything reddit related.
Between connection issues related to the large influx of new users, lots of learning curve, ambiguity of whether reddit was going to back down or not, and just the general trying to rebuild our online worlds to account for what reddit was beforehand. It's not at all surprising that people haven't necessarily found time to build out the content of their new magazines.
Except there are inevitably power mods who would happily nump at the opportunity to claim a few more subs for their fiefdoms
Not necessarily.
Something like Facebook is still useful for keeping in touch with extended family and social circles. I may not particularly care about great uncle John, but it's nice to be aware that he's in the hospital after a bad fall without that information going through 5 rounds of the telephone game.
Somewhere like Reddit or the fediverse? I would never want my real identity associated with these accounts. It's nice to have some anonymity.
Because those big businesses are only motivated by the profit possibilities.
If you take away that protection then they'll just stop trying. They don't give a shit about any of the motivations you listed. They'll wait for you to come up with something new, then use the advantage of their size to force you out of the market. You'll end up either giving up or trying again at which point they'll just repeat the cycle.
And there's nothing you can do to stop them because now they can be as open and blatant as they want with directly using your exact plans.