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Why am I addicted to OpenTTD. Running a transport business sounds boring as fuck.

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Seeing people post positively about Substack now that it's challenging Twitter.

Reminder: Substack is also centralised. Worse, the business model is basically to take what would once have been blogs and paywall them as premium 'newsletters'.

Substack is not a friend of the open web.

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Discord is not only shitty as a program. The general community and culture around it are fucking awful. It's filled with zoomer smoothbrains and predators.
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All software eventually becomes open source. If it doesn't, it either fades into obscurity or an open-source lookalike replaces it. Take web browsers, for example. Google develops Chromium (which also powers Brave, Opera, and now even Microsoft Edge) because they realize that this gives them influence over their competition. Because they understand that everything eventually becomes open source.

If a piece of software is a good enough idea, someone will eventually, in their spare time, create an open source version of it. It could be simply out of interest, to learn, or because they want to gain influence. Take Mastodon vs Twitter for example. Mastodon was created by a young man in his free time, and it's now in the ring with a $42bn company. It was able to do this specifically because it's open source, which stoked the enthusiasm of other technologists who self-hosted and made it happen. You will see how "Post News" and "Tribel" or whatever, have quickly burned up in the sun in the aftermath of Elon Musk's yesterday drama.

Everything eventually becomes open source because it can be. The reason people climb mountains is because they can. If you want to play the short game in an already flooded market, you are free to take your chances and build a secret project in a secret lair that nobody will ever find out about. Or you can start playing the long game from the very start and just build it open source. It would be a missed opportunity not to.
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@MK2boogaloo @meso @usernameswift @Centaur @menherahair @Jojothegoodperson @Zerglingman @MercurialBlack

Everyone on fedi knows/should know privacy here is fucked and posts might not be deleted

Also everyone on fedi: let's post my most deranged thoughts here for the world to read.
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People who believe in mythical things like man-made climate change or that socialism can work are not necessarily evil; just stupid. Willful ignorance is not a moral crime, and it is your God given right to believe whatever idiocy you want.

The moral crime occurs when you try to manipulate or force others into your ideology. *Activists* are at the root of the most evil acts being perpetrated today.

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@TylerAbeoJordan @xianc78 thats cool i'll just take the gold coins though, zero interest in glowy internet money
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@hachi Globohomo brainwashing autistic children into trannydom is the actual genocide against my people, a genocide you are complicit in, you child-mutilating abomination.
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RT @LaniakVol
Un hilo sobre algunas vertientes del libertarianismo, creo que no los pondré todos pero pondré algunos de los que me parecen interesantes curiosos o simplemente mas importantes.

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why do trannies love linux?
is it because it fails to boot half the time?
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