She basically said it herself though.

Honestly, they are pretty well funded and don’t need the money. I just redirected my money to SciHub and Lemmy now.

I used to, but then they removed crypto because of propaganda efforts by reactionary idiots masquerading as progressives. Now, I have no way to donate to them.

I think there’s a setting to bring back the buttons, if you want that.

Settings -> System -> Gestures -> System navigation

I think people have already answered your question. Just to add on, think about stuff that happened before the creation of an IP regime. Were people not creating things back then?

I would also like to clarify that I’m not talking about forcing people to reveal their secrets. If you want to keep your thing a secret, you’re welcome to. But, there should be no state prosecution if that thing gets made public.

And I do buy things if I enjoyed them and want to reward the creators. When I was a poor kid with no funds, I pirated a lot of videogames. Now that I’m a slightly older kid with some funds, I buy the games that I enjoy and my game piracy has gone down a lot. Without piracy, these future sales from me would have been lost because I probably wouldn’t care about videogames. Not a justification, just my feelings.

All piracy is ethical because Intellectual Property is a lie.

I will pirate from megacorps and indies, anyone who sets up a demand based distribution system for products.

The only products I will not pirate are those that have a needs based distribution system and are finite.

100% of the crypto hate I see is from citizens of neocolonial states. You lord your control of the financial system over us and when something threatens it, it’s always delegitimised for any number of reasons.

Take your pick: scam, destroying the environment, eroding state power etc.

A decentralised system/society will need a value layer to transact. You think Visa should be in control of that?

Just because you don’t like it, doesn’t make it snake oil. I hope you never find yourself at the mercy of a government that persecutes you and imposes capital control so you can’t even run away with your money. If crypto existed when my people were literally being genocided, my parents would not have to end up in a new country with nothing to their name.

Why would I want a nation state to run on anything? The end of the nation state is the communist utopia!

I am for whatever erodes the illegitimate violence exerted by nation states to safeguard their parasitic domain. If it’s crypto, it’s crypto. If people not eating apples brought about their end, I would be out there burning orchards.

Why are the Lemmy devs asking for snake oil on their Donate page then?

Sitting comfy in a country where the financial system works for you elites is the real snake oil.

I’m in law school.

Just use Firefox? Available on desktop and Android.

It even has adblock extensions on Android!

Even as a crypto enthusiast, the web3 movement smelled like VC manure being dumped on a field hoping something grows.

Incredibly out of touch Westerners who think the world should revolve exclusively around their favoured concerns. The Ukraine conflict was a very good example of this. So many dumbasses blaming countries for not cutting their ties with Russia just because it suits their worldview.

I’m just throwing the example back at the commenter?

If you want to use state sponsored violence to curb one behaviour, why not another that can have an equally good effect?

Or are you saying that starving children is less of a concern than fireworks and definitely less important than cats?

I’m not that offended, tone doesn’t carry well over text. It’s just a tired excuse of my pets get scared so fireworks should be banned.

Your pets are not the centre of the world!

Instead of spending money on a cat you could fund the education of a child.

Instead you’re here whining about fireworks.

Pets are social burdens that should be outlawed.

Edit: All the people mad about this care more about their pets than starving children.