The large majority of open source tools that are used in mass have significant commercial backing.

Yes many users could make more money from patron only. Very few do in the tall world. Their primary source of income is YT. Because people don’t use the patrons.

You can have a diverse community that has a large majority opinion. And what I said is certainly the prevailing opinion.

And to answer you about your personal view: You are stealing the right to distribution and taking money away from both corporations but more importantly creators. And I’ve seen the rates of direct donations eg patrons . It’s not ideological for most people, it’s about getting content for free.

Are you donating to every channel you are watching? I doubt it. Even the people who care mostly only donate directly to one of two top patrons, while still consuming many many more.

If you are actually donating, then good for you, I congratulate you for living what you preach and have zero qualms. But you would be a statistical edge case.

Oh right, in the magical world where people are giving their money away. The majority of content creators would of left your platform. But it’s okay it’s easy to steal their right to distribution and handwave it away as not a problem.

Because you have not set up that agreement and the vast majority of people don’t pay outside of ads or a singular monthly sub.

The next best thing is nebula which has 600,000 monthly subs at $5. Which means a maximum payout pool of 18M a year.

Look at the number of users vs donations. The only reason this place works is low traffic and low bandwidth. The vision you describe would be great but it’s not going to happen. ESPECIALLY once users are forced to pay rather than getting shit for free.

“Google shouldn’t be allowed to operate as a loss leader” - Reddit and Lemmy

“Paying for the service? Fuck that” - Also lemmy and Reddit.

🤷‍♂️ people are going to take the path of least resistance

Yes. The prompt asking you if you wanted to do it or not would come up next. Unless they figured out some sneaky way to do something to avoid using admin.

You realize most cars, if they are rated for towing can only tow 1500lbs right? Even full size SUVs typically do 5500. I regularly tow about 9000lbs.

Does a trailer tow for me? Cool enough, that might actually be true soon. They have some fancy ev trailer boosters coming out and being developed.

Don’t get me started on this shit. The privacy people are well.

Oh I’m sure the person running this instance from his basement is going to handle my gdpr request better than Meta 🙄 definitely can’t pull down a hash table from the db with zero accountability

Well I’m happy you live in a reality where that’s the case. Then ignore that folks do work outside their employment.

Yes it was. What crack are you on? From day 2, the second that shit was made public to college students it was HAMMERED into everyone’s head that shit would be public. The boomers on Fox News knew this shit was public.

The point is they won’t. In figuring will continue over every fucking little thing THE VEGANS ARE CRAZY SO BAN THEM

Already is. Forums with extra steps unfortunately.

Lololol I didn’t think everyone here had thought through this lololol. You are wildly optimistic.

Everyone screaming left and right about employeer and school admissions scanning the site.

You all realize this same shit is happening here right?

It’s a public forum 🤦‍♂️

You are probably referring a 2013 phone survey of 1200 individuals which purposely split the difference between using the bed and towing making them mutually exclusive. When you didn’t treat them mutually exclusive showed something like 60% of owners used it or lent it out for use at least a few times a year. Or a 2018 report by a trade group axios which didn’t release data, methodology, or anything. It was released to auto trade folks but because of copyright none of the data was released. Just regurgitated media referencing each other.

If you would like to actually link a peer reviewed study on truck use with public data I’m happy to reconsider my position. But I don’t believe that data exists. But again, my position is completely open if something has changed there.

1/2 ton v8 trucks start at 35, 42 nicely configured. Not everyone is buying lariats.

Oh I guess workers don’t tow with them either. It’s insane how you folks invent these artificial restrictions and rules.

You would rather create extra waste than admit folks use them as both in some weird pyrrhic political win.

I don’t get ads. I pay 🤷‍♂️.

And you need two vehicles if you work and have a family? That’s insane.