Not solving the root societal causes, as is generally true of policing, but this does at least create consequences for a harm that affects people day to day.
How the world "should" respond to the thing we care about is an actively counter-productive thing to get hung up on.
Its much important how they do respond to it, and how we can reach those who don't connect with it
(And that doesn't just lecturing people and trying to brow beat them into caring about it, which seems like the default approach for a lot of foss folks 🥲 thats the opposite or reaching people, that's alienating them)
Whether it's good or bad is not determined by the fact that it's corporate money, but how that money impacts development, the devil's in the details, not just in a company donating lots of money.
Open source in general is very dependent on corporate sponsors. The linux kernel wouldn't exist had companies not invested in it.
I'm not knowledgeable enough to assess the potential pitfalls here, so I will be cautious but not paranoid, and continue to pay attention to discussions on how FOSS projects are run 🤷♂️
Someone mentioned recruiting but honestly I'd assume review analysis/highlights. Thats generally what I see retailers do with it
At least amazon seperates it into categories and lets you see some of the reviews in question in case that attribute is especially important to you. I'd much rather that than just being told whether it's a good product- a system with clearly no conflicts of interest that will never be used for harm, obviously.
I'm just learning about owncast, is there any way to login or subscribe to people so I can come back to their streams at a later time?
The set name dialog says I can authenticate with a fediverse account via the authenticate dialog, but that doesn't seem to work, at least not with my lemmy account...
But if I succesfully authenticated there's no indication that would let me "subscribe" to a given channel or something though, and that's really what I want
Thats a really interesting and novel idea! You could also give granularity based off of that, so people still have ultimate control, but then it's only one setting you have to learn about and it's not following an account, which feels like a hacky UX
I agree with your perspective that the people who might most be interested in bridges are also the least likely to be aware it's something they can opt into
Neat! I'm glad your voice can be part of the conversation started on lemmy from a totally different platform, I may never get over how cool that is lol
Cris @ Cris_Color @lemmy.world Posts 85Comments 3,153Joined 2 yr. ago
Wow. I got like a lifetime membership ages ago, I didn't know about that, thank you for filling me in a bit. That fuckin sucks shit.