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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • i make porn

    i’ve spent thousands of dollars on camera equipment

    i post it online, in 4k, for free, and there’s no way to pay me for the content

    i do it because i like the exhibitionism (among other things)

    i do it because in the sex-positive communities i prefer to associate with, it’s like posting your day to facebook

    i do it because the camera pushes me to imagine new and interesting things to do

    i do it because it helps me meet people with similar tastes that aren’t flakey and are equally sex positive and non-judgemental

    there’s an enormous amateur community (that often becomes professional) that makes porn because they want to… money is a nice thing to help buy new gear for porn, but it’s not the primary concern



  • as aStonedSanata mentioned, different tech isn’t what we’re talking about: fibre shouldn’t be limited to the speeds of, say ADSL or cable to keep things neutral

    what we’re talking about here is, for example, netflix paying your ISP to prioritise traffic to their service over other services… this causes an enormous disadvantage to new startups, because they likely can’t afford to pay a similar fee or even enter into complex agreements with every carrier! in which case, netflix has a better service not because they’re better: just because they’re incumbent

    of course these kind of things happen all over the place, but it’s the exact failure of capitalist systems that governments should seek to patch with regulations (like net neutrality) because it’s not good for consumers, the economy, or innovation… which are all the very things that capitalism is meant to promote!







  • when it got shut down a lot of commenters referred to it like losing “the library of alexandria of music”

    not just hard to get stuff - stuff found in dumpsters behind studios that was never released or copied - but it was all available in the highest possible qualities by people who knew how to copy sound (both in an analog and digital sense in the best possible ways), sorted and catalogued immaculately