Please, tell me how “paying for hardware costs is enough”…

  • Blaze (he/him)
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    522 days ago

    I can bet that the most if not all find a way to pay for Netflix, or Spotify

    Really not sure about that on Lemmy…

    Btw, just gave 10$ to my instance today

    • @rglullis@communick.newsOP
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      -122 days ago

      Or their games. Or their booze/drugs/cigarettes. Or their whatever they spend their money on without questioning the one providing the goods why they want to charge for it.

      Btw, just gave 10$ to my instance today

      Good on you! Now, let’s get that to become the norm for everyone else.

      • Blaze (he/him)
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        822 days ago

        You see people here running 5 years old phones with custom ROMs, 10 years laptops on minimalist distros

        Pirating every show or movie they watch. I really don’t think the average Lemmy user is a frivolous spender

        • @rglullis@communick.newsOP
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          222 days ago

          Once again you are using points on the extreme end of the distribution curve and trying to pass it as the median case.

          Also: pirating is an act of moral rebellion, not of lack of means to afford the shitty product offered by the movie industry

          • Blaze (he/him)
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            122 days ago

            Just taking into account the platform audience.

            I wasn’t surprised by the Pixelfed Kickstarter success, as IG is much more popular than Reddit. Text based forums are a much smaller audience.