PropaGandalf
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I was one of the first people to try out their alpha but quickly switched over to Rnote as I heavily rely on handwriting and sketching for enriching my notes. For organizing my life I have settled with Emacs and org-mode and for writing papers and collaborating on texts I use Typst. I never really understood the point of using Notion very much and the lack of handwriting support really turned me of. At least it looks very clean.
Very true. I had to laugh when I saw lemmygrad.com
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No, not on price, on orginality. On the stories you can tell about the creation of your product. If everything around you gets automated, created by AI, copied by big corpos and soulless copycats you will have the choice: Cheap and uninteresting or maybe a bit more expensive but with a personal connection. It’s your decision to choose.
And that is exactly what is happening today. Do you think IP is not exploited by the big rich companies in such a way that it helps them? A small author won’t have the same opportunities as a big publisher, who will exploit him to the hilt. But the problem is that now the publisher gets the lion’s share of the licensing costs for the duration of the IP licence and the author can’t sell it anywhere else because he is bound.
Exactly: Who has the greater power in the end: the company or the consumer? You only have to look at reddit: When we stand up together and support each other, we are strong. In my opinion, this is prevented by “consumer protection measures” that are exploited by the corpos anyway, and in the end it is always the uninformed penniless person who is the stupid one.
That would be a great first step and this is exactly why I have initiated this discussion. It helps me to align my behaviour with what I personally consider to be optimal and then act accordingly. Everything I create to improve my situation I also want to share with the world.
And as a fun fact: without IP there is no need for copyleft or open source licenses because theoretically you can reverse engineer everything. But that doesn’t make the open source community obsolete. There will still be a distinction between people who openly share their source and solution and those who try to hide it from everyone.
But why do we need it then anyways? It is a kind of paternalism of the people and a restriction of their freedom. The argument that IP should protect small businesses from big bad businesses is, in my opinion, inaccurate. It’s the big companies that sit on their patents or hoard their licences and make a fortune.
This is the decision of the consumers. If we as a society do not want the big corporations to become too powerful, we should not give them any money. Most people will have to learn the hard way when their own ideas are sold cheaper elsewhere until they understand that it is better to support the original and the actual creator. But anything else is pure paternalism, which I cannot support. I am of course aware that there will always be people who will take advantage of this situation. But everyone must decide for themselves whether it is worth it. Otherwise, the product may no longer exist.
As I said: In a free market, supply can be determined by demand. So if most people stopped ordering shit on amazon every day, we wouldn’t be where we are now. First of all, everyone can take a look at their own nose and not blame everything on daddy state. As if that would help you in any way.
How so? I agree with you that this measure will fundamentally change the reasons for innovation. Innovation itself will no longer be lucrative because you cannot be sure that you will be rewarded for your research.
In my opinion, it will rather arise from the urge to deliver a better end product with which one can differentiate oneself from the competition for some time. Or out of a thirst for knowledge that is fuelled by the fact that all knowledge is openly accessible. Or from the sense of community that comes from working together on a project to improve one’s own skill and improve the circumstances for all.
If they are happy let it be. I also see the problem with lists but maybe when listing nice communities to join you could go with the unsorted lists. Like that you have bullet point for each community that save up a lot of space.
I have also reviewed my community descriptions and made some significant changes to particl and libertariansim. If you want you can go over it one more time ;)
Hey your community descriptions are very pleasant to read and descriptive. But sometimes I have the impression that there is perhaps too much text which becomes a bit of a wall of text, especially on mobile devices (SWMemes). Also, you could perhaps format lists as such, as this can also save significantly more space (listing of other communities).
You may check out Particl.io. Its by farthe only real cypherpunk led blockchain project I know.
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