IP is simply a state backed monopoly privilege. This obviously leads to a slowing of innovation and price rises due to lack of (by force) competition. IP is unethical and doesn’t even accomplish what it sets out to do. You don’t need government promises of monopoly rights to create innovation in the marketplace, competition drives innovation.

How did people figure out what email provider to use?

Yeah the least they could do is seed forever.

Authoritarian is up on the poltical compass, not right, although its often left since it often requires a powerful state.

It’s good!

Vetted members could still bot though or have ther accounts compromised. Not a realistic solution.

So true. IP only helps the corps and slows tech development. Contracts, ndas, and trade secrets are all you really need to keep your ideas safe. If you want your country to develop fast, get rid of any IP laws.

Deregulation

Gimp, krita, inkscape, scribus covers my needs well

Why cant you afford it? Didn’t you think about how you were going to pay it back when you signed the papers agreeing that you would pay it back?

Here, you’ll probably like this book: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8qUyTkGux7eYkNES2gtNHBLcFE/edit?resourcekey=0-hxPdlh0Y1k6UnRqKYV-2iA

It’d be messed up for the government to do this even if he wasn’t a billionaire though. End corporations in bed with government.

The problem with any media heavy content is storage. Fediverse is diy, mom’s basement servers. Who’s going to pay for all the storage?

I guess because it can federate with other servers and protocols?

Never heard of that for, it looks exactly built for this problem, better than torrent. Good call.

anyway to use torrent protocol somehow? Like popcorn time did?

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/software/top-paypal-alternatives/

It’s so gimmicky compared to something actually useful, like better battery.

Based on OPs experience this is the best solution.

If they want to learn, I found plex + plexamp was pretty easy to get going.

As a Lemmy user I’m certainly intrigued with the buzzwords you’ve thrown out, but there doesn’t seem to be an actual system anywhere in there.