If posted to a public forum like this one, non-commercial usage is obviously required. On the biggest (i.e., for-profit) social platforms, commercial use is also required (if I’m understanding those terms correctly, at least).

There is stuff publicly available online that has restrictions on commercial use. Because I’d rather see how open source AI generation goes, I’d prefer to have non-commercial efforts get that sweet data without giving it to the major tech companies.

Yeah, that’s generally how I understand it. Capitalism works fairly well when everyone is on an even playing field, but then some people find ways to exploit human psychology to hoard wealth beyond the value they contribute. When money (capital) is considered a proxy for personal value/status, having large amounts of money grants power over others and the ability to bully your way to the top if you’re cruel enough.

So we need to implement regulation that keeps capitalism in check by ensuring access to opportunity. Wealth taxes to avoid unconscionable amounts of accumulation. Guarantees of access to affordable (non-debt burdened) higher education, affordable healthcare, and affordable housing. Basically, the moral underpinnings of socialist ideology can be used to give capitalism a conscience by keeping the end game at bay. But that requires us to continuously battle against the greedy, power-hungry monied interests who will fight those regulations (and have defeated them, on many occasions).

If too much power is held by too few people, it becomes more risky to defy them, but it’s a problem of allowing capitalism to run unfettered towards its natural conclusion of sucking all the wealth up into the hands of the most rutheless, heartless, and lucky (their beneficiaries).

Aggressively breaking up monopolies would help. I’d also argue for legal limits on how much the CEO/highest paid staff can earn relative to their lowest paid. Also, economic programs that favor lifting new people up rather than supporting the existing success aristocracy.

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I could defnitely see that. I get the sense he has a particular penchant for deep dives and sharing knowledge which would make such a channel appealing (from a creator’s perspective). He definitely deserves a break. After the last few years, we all do TBH

This sounds like an unfortunate consequence of the evolutionary pressure that has been allowed to take place within humanity for the past ~150 years. Profit is more important than anything else. So of course you’ll have sociopathic “profit-above-all-else” mindsets among influential business figures.

I think you mean the “most profitable in the next 3 months on average” decision. It certainly isn’t the best decision by any other metric.

Mods like that probably exist. There are also many quiet mods, particularly in smaller communities, who try to govern even handedly. I never engaged in any protests or pushed any agendas until the recent API changes, and am trying to set up an alternate space to help ensure a space exists for the content/community.

Quite honestly, I don’t like moderating or leadership and sort of fell into the role. Now that I’m here though, there’s a sense of duty/obligation that makes it hard to leave.

I’d like to see a search engine that has a setting to just search forums. Organic user generated content is where most of the valuable information is, at least for troubleshooting/ product recommendations/ hobbies.