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  • you probably have to convince more people with those views to switch away from their other social media.

    i suspect moderate conservative people are maybe more likely to stay with status quo/ monolithic / non-distributed services, so there won’t be as many moving to a new looser open source thing.

    like i bet linux / open source / foss users are a little bit more likely to be liberal or socialist (or DGAFs) - at least insofar as they’re choosing on principles of ownership and user rights rather than affordability - its sort of linked-in to those licenses which inherently disempower the individual creator of the IP (vs say a patent) and empower the end users and people who want to reuse the IP in a different ways. That’s basically a liberal ownership model vs a capitalist one - to grossly oversimply.

    conservatives are maybe more likely to be buying proprietary services from microsoft, oracle, or amazon/google ( pay someone else to run your linux /postgres for you!), if they’re happy eating all that shit from them, reddit is probably fine.






  • yeah, people lose so much credibility when they don’t even control for simple easy things.

    there will always be some confounding factors, but doing rate per population, is rarely hard - andneeded over decade comparisons.

    demographic risk adjustment is more complex, so i’d not expect that. but if it is at least acknowledged, then the article is more credible and will get more (of my) attention.

    media (and i guess their audience) seem to enjoy hype though . . .

    oh shit this is the f.t. i used to think they were among the more credible journo’s. pity.



  • barring a complete redesign of intellectual property law from its very foundation.

    lets just hope theres no media empire with a legion of mouse-eared lawyers champing at the bit to do such a thing.

    similarly i’d be a bit worried that any new legislation would be more strongly influenced by those rights-holding interest groups rather than consumers.

    Imagine someone in 50 years who wants a rom from the 80s. will they be able to get it easily?

    It’d be nice if it was as easy as getting hold of a brothers grimm story.