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but what kind? Microblogging, macroblogging, link aggregation, forum, imageboard etc.


there are plugins for all of this stuff and more: there are kanban boards, stuff for openscience (I think peer-review and the likes), some collaboration features etc etc


Yes to ban? if so, yes.


I like dolphin but pcmanfm is fastet


I guest Musk cant difference between anarchism and libertarianism


“That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.” - Kim Stanley Robinson


To be fair, I've always considered libertarians to be, for the most part, anarchists who won't commit.


This seems fair+true. "Libertarian anarchists" is like "jumbo olives".. they want to build their castles in the sky in a free-floating environment that is only free in the particular way that they want; violators will be persecuted.

Anarchosyndicalism or GTFO. YMMV.


I mean he's also very much not a libertarian. He's an apparatchik of an authoritarian government. That's pretty much the opposite of being a libertarian.

(Pedantically, there's a lot of overlap between anarchists and left-libertarians, but the terms tainted enough now that no-one much really considers themselves a left-libertarian anymore.)


both are possible


That's a fantasy of the hobby FOSS developer.

"If I make something so great then people will still pay me even if I give it away for free!"

A tiny percentage of people might still pay for it, but the vast majority will not, and will complain loudly about any attempts to monetize.


Why does everything need to be made for profit? Why does someone NEED to be paid for every project, every scrap of work?

You said it yourself, this is a hobby FOSS developer. Key word hobby.

Have people stopped understanding that others do things simply because they want to? Not everything is profit-driven, even on this site.


I would like for artisan, indie developers to be able to sustain some kind of a living off their work instead of being forced to work at a soul-sucking faang optimizing ad clicks because their hobby projects can't pay any bills.


This is what I was referring to.

Though I can also understand the child comment on your comment as well. I think that is a reasonable statement as well.

This is a really weird ethical dilemma that I still hold, as a hobby creator myself (just not at a scale of really earning money,but boy I sure would want to ), I want to earn money from it but I also want to distribute it freely, I am not sure how I can get both.


> A tiny percentage of people might still pay for it, but the vast majority will not, and will complain loudly about any attempts to monetize.

This is true of all products though, in ecommerce 1% conversion is pretty average... generally the path is to increase the top of the funnel because it's always small at the bottom... some products get by with 0.5% or less


So do I sibling. so do I


As someone who was mistook to be a bot some times, I can relate. One of my creation, was even reported as being done by a GenAI. Not sure if it is insulting or not.


Please dont do a substack. This website is full of nazi. Your blog is fine.


F# is corporate friendly ML. Love it.


Thank you for both website btw


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