Right. But just because the wealthy can easily afford concert tickets doesn’t mean Ticketmaster isn’t also price gouging.

Why not both?

Their audiobooks are also DRM-free!

That’s not what being a Luddite means

Even if you’re paying for the product, you’re still the product

They don’t call it a Gilded Age for nothing

From what I can tell, Bluesky is much more demanding in terms of the technical challenge of doing this on your own, and part of the issue is that some of the key tools to make this easier don’t really exist yet, making it much harder than setting up a Mastodon instance for example, so part of what they want to do is bridge that gap as well as stand up more independent servers.

Free Our Feeds is trying to make this happen

This is literally the one site whose journalism every Lemming should support

The schismogenesis in the comments and downvotes here is wild: “dystopia is good when it hurts scumbags”—um, no, both can be bad??

That’s literally the point of the article?

Revenue is distributed proportionally as a percentage of revenue based on streams relative to other artists, not per stream

Why not instead have public and/or worker ownership of stocks, as the Meidner plan proposed, or in the form of a Social Wealth Fund as Matt Bruenig at the People’s Policy Project has suggested? This give people both democratic control and socializes the profits. As long as we have corporations, having them owned either by the public or by their workers (in the form of cooperatives) seems like the way to go.

Maybe the paywall had something to do with it?

My brother in Christ, capitalist markets and the corporations that run things already satisfy the definition of superintelligence

Can we please not help launder his reputation by proactively giving him credit for something he hasn’t done yet?

Wasn’t a major tranche of Softbank’s funding contingent on their being able to do this? They might be broke a lot sooner than people thought without it…

This sounds like the company from Cory Doctorow’s most recent novel, Picks & Shovels

Let’s delve into the issue

This is the premise of Tom Maughan’s short story “Flyover Country”