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

  • @rglullis@communick.newsOP
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    -123 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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      823 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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        223 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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          123 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.