“Monetization options” = ads, presumably…

LOL I saw one today that said “Zuckerberg banned the lord’s prayer!”

OBS seems to be funded by the likes of Meta, Google, Amazon, AMD, Nvidia, etc. despite being unaffiliated.

Did I what?

Only if someone allows them to. ActivityPub exists to spite Meta, so I’d be very surprised if anyone allowed to them have any sort of negative influence.

I was curious if you had an explanation I hadn’t heard before.

They will be the most anti-consumer, exploitative influence the law will allow

You’re right. They will. But there’s nothing they can influence. Laws be damned. No one owns ActivityPub.

there’s no good argument for going along willingly, IMO.

Except the one where, you know, you can use the Fediverse as an actual social media outlet where your friends and family are, public figures and all that, without subjecting yourself to ads and spying. I think that’s a pretty good one.

Oh and all of your friends and family can do the same, if they so choose.

Lots of great reasons to print. Paper can’t run out of power. Can be stored for hundreds of years without concern for corruption. It’s a lot cheaper than another screen. Etc. etc.

Not to mention the scanner so I can scan all the garbage people, companies, and government send me in the mail.

…why?

a small LED will illuminate on the side of the case. It’s tastefully done.

Surprised it’s not integrated into some AsusIQ spyware or something.

Also surprised they’re not using a simple pressure sensor.

There’s no other way. That’s the point. 💡

Just Google it.

You don’t know what you’re talking about.

I’ve never seen an artist on Bandcamp that I actually recognize.

Telling anyone to “just Google it” is proof that you have no interest in a good faith discussion.

How do you even buy music anymore?

Not right now it can’t

I mean theoretically you don’t have to pay for anything, just disable it in your account settings, but I don’t believe any of that for a single second.

Not when you’re communicating important information to the public and/or campaigning for people to vote for you.

To be clear, this is supposedly temporary and eventually it’s supposed to be bidirectional but I will be totally unsurprised if they “never get around to it”.

Yes but then they couldn’t post to Threads. Which is where far more people are, unfortunately.