rglullis@communick.news to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agoThe admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rentmstdn.socialexternal-linkmessage-square149fedilinkarrow-up1549arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1538arrow-down1external-linkThe admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rentmstdn.socialrglullis@communick.news to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square149fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBlaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·13 days agoYou see people here running 5 years old phones with custom ROMs, 10 years laptops on minimalist distros Pirating every show or movie they watch. I really don’t think the average Lemmy user is a frivolous spender
minus-squarerglullis@communick.newsOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·13 days agoOnce again you are using points on the extreme end of the distribution curve and trying to pass it as the median case. Also: pirating is an act of moral rebellion, not of lack of means to afford the shitty product offered by the movie industry
minus-squareBlaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 days agoJust taking into account the platform audience. I wasn’t surprised by the Pixelfed Kickstarter success, as IG is much more popular than Reddit. Text based forums are a much smaller audience.
You see people here running 5 years old phones with custom ROMs, 10 years laptops on minimalist distros
Pirating every show or movie they watch. I really don’t think the average Lemmy user is a frivolous spender
Once again you are using points on the extreme end of the distribution curve and trying to pass it as the median case.
Also: pirating is an act of moral rebellion, not of lack of means to afford the shitty product offered by the movie industry
Just taking into account the platform audience.
I wasn’t surprised by the Pixelfed Kickstarter success, as IG is much more popular than Reddit. Text based forums are a much smaller audience.