> move to self-hosted servers on onion sites, and have automation that copies out the relevant products to the centralized watering holes to attract noobs
or self host a federated forge like tangled.org where you get all the discoverability and social features with no centralized control. anti social isolated sites should die together with big tech.
personalised feeds are great when its actually doing what you (the user) want and not pushing paid ads or political agenda. the whole reason i dont use fediverse apps that much is they built up a culture of "respects your attention" with algorithms that are built to be non addictive. i just need that dopamine rush.
instead we should force these platforms to open source their algorithm and give users choice with a following only feed. or make bluesky/at protocol style federation mandatory to prevent vendor lock in. you decide.
the name lives on in the pirate community. someone called Razor12911 created XTool (https://github.com/Razor12911/xtool), its a compression library a lot of famous repackers use. im not sure if they are a former razor member or the name is just a homage but its cool either way
and NDAs should be limited to something like one year after your employment ends. no standalone "money for silence" contracts allowed of course. that would create a big incentive to keep your employees happy, avoid controversial projects like selling data to the military, publish or patent research instead of sitting on it and increase competition in all markets. could also help against sexual harassment.
Why event a year for a NDA? 1 month after leaving the company should be max. They are Meta, who cares what BS they are building to destroy peoples life's. There is no reason to keep these things secret. This is not MI6 or the CIA, its a massive corporation, they should not have any such rights.
on one level i understand why he doesnt want some random tech company profiting off his art but moving to everything closed off copyrighted and secret is bad for society as a whole. you are replacing big tech with big content and supporting legacy media monopolies. and you are also making it harder for fan artists, beginner writers and everyone else who can use it for inspiration.
of course if you want a permanent solution to ai stealing peoples work thats getting rid of capitalism and ip laws with it but thats a million times harder and probably wont happen in our lifetimes.
i mean its perfectly valid to create a new exception to copyright laws. in fact it might already exist because if you are legally required to release something that beats all the contracts you signed in any reasonable jurisdiction. weaker ip means giving a head start to new devs and bankrupting commercial engine vendors. and im all for making epic and unity go out of business
putting aside the politics and asking for money i also found this:
> I found a much easier answer for my own project, which has been to never accept anonymous contributions and to not merge a single line of code until the contributor sends an email promising to assign me copyright
i understand the anonymous contributions part even if i dont agree but how does assigning copyright make it easier to fight toxic people? the only reason you would ever do this instead of a cla is when you want the option to release the code as closed source. you cant revoke a open source license anyway
> Even self-proclaimed anarchists have long acknowledged that 'the tyranny of structurelessness' is a thing
structure and hierarchy are two very different things. you can have elected leaders who manage the day to day problems and a popular vote on all the important issues. of course its hard to implement in practice but it is possible. the reasons our society is elitist are economic inequality and different social connections but they only have real power when the people cant decide directly. if there was a federal ballot prop system america would look very different
A federal ballot prop system would be completely unworkable, which is why it was not made part of the Constitution. It would just increase opaque agenda-setting power compared to the present system, and the overall outcome would be even worse.
making a real sacrifice is something that only affects you and the bad guys. fire bomb a data center and go to jail. leak internal chats or code showing your company lied to users and get fired. when third parties get hurt that makes you lord farquaad. "some of you may die but thats a sacrifice im willing to make"
or self host a federated forge like tangled.org where you get all the discoverability and social features with no centralized control. anti social isolated sites should die together with big tech.
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