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Enshittification
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There are people who are building and participating in alternatives. They deserve support. But people have also become accustomed to getting a lot for free.
Now I'm not defending YouTube, but they have to store billions of hours of videos and serve millions of people at a time, just so you (and me) can stream 10hrs of video a day just to listen to lo fi study music or watch let's plays. that's very expensive. The whole model is ass-backwards, that content creators exist to get paid. YouTube should be charging content creators for storing their videos, and if the creator wants to saturate their shit with ads and e-begging, then it be their choice.
The free/cheap entitlement definitely seeps into FOSS areas. I periodically see things like "this app/platform NEEDS to have all of the functionality of the paid one, be free and easy to set up" or particularly contradictory "a Linux phone NEEDS to have reliable calls, texts, support my banking apps, WhatsApp, have modern hardware, and cost $200"
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I like the idea of free software, but users shouldn't expect people to do the work for them for free. If there's software I need that's free, great. If there's no free version, I'm not owed one and I'm not gonna complain until I get one.
Complaining is part of contributing ideas. You can contribute code, or ideas, or both. Have a look at !foss_requests@libretechni.ca.
One good principle that’s aligned with what you’re saying is that every FOSS contributor desides for themself what work to do. It’s uncivil to try to task someone in partcular with work. No one should be personally pushed to do work. Avoid that, and there is nothing wrong with reporting bugs and making suggestions generally to the commons.
You’re right, but this benefits rich content creators at the cost of new ones creating more income inequality in the content creation business.