Reddit is just like our all ex.

Just happen to be that big tech is located in USA.

if we’ll have to retreat into a whitelist federation model with invite-only instances

That does not sound bad.

But to be fair, if you are an animator - you are really into pain.

Reddit is such a nice example of capitalism turning a genuinely nice thing into a pile of garbage.

Yet Disney found a pretty creative work around. But that might be a good idea that distribution and production should be separated entities - if well implemented well could solve the problem. Haven’t thought about it.

I did, because it was convenient. But I learned my lesson, it was quite expensive.

I hate subscription models. After adobe, never again.

I like them both. But also non commercial piracy - or how we used to call it back in the days: sharing, should not be illegal in the first place.

and the 5 or so companies remaining would compete based on their own original content

I don’t see how this is any better, since if you want a specific show produced by a specific company you would still need to subscribe to their service, kind of the same problem we having right now.

Again, I’m not arguing for monopolies in general. But with media it’s what customers want - a single service they can access all the media they want, with reasonable prices or a subscription model.

Musik industry has an extra layer of rights management companies that deal with exactly that issue. So I agree, we could create a legal framework or even an industry self regulating system to work that problem out. But I kind of said that already:

We would need a global overhaul of copyright to work this one out.

Why are you that antagonizing?

A private monopoly isn’t a good thing.

Most times. But for media, people want to have all their media in one place for a cheap price - so far only monopolistic or oligopolistic services were able to provide that. It worked quite well for games and in some form for music (you will often have single right management companies in the music industry - like BMI in USA or GEMA in Germany). But in general, I would agree that monopolies (outside natural monopolies and those should be run by the state) are unfavorable for the customer.

Little unfair to say they “missed” anything when they can’t control what studios do with their licenses.

Little unfair of your to leave out:

due to the greed of Studios

Wich makes clear, I don’t blame netflix.

Good point, I think it might have to do with the way music is differently licensed. You will often have a “monopolistic” rights management organization like BMI in USA whereas rights for video and games the rights management lies more with the overarching productions companies.

If Gabe cares, he will make a foundation or something.

Does not work for media, since media is a good that you need a specific version of. You don’t really care what potatoes you buy (simplification) but if you want to watch a specific show, movie or play a game -you can’t really subsidize it with another. So exclusivity does not work for potatoes but works for media. We would need a global overhaul of copyright to work this one out.

For a streaming platform to be actually useful it needs to be a almost monopoly like steam. Netflix had a chance but missed the spot, due to the greed of Studios. So it’s back to fractured marked until someone comes with a fresh idea of how to distribute video.

Also sometimes they will change your sex in the process.

If an AI has gained the power to overthrow governments

Facebooks algorithms are pretty close to this ability. But AI is not the problem - artificial consciousnesses would be, since it would gain own agency. And for all we know consciousnesses might be just a byproduct of a complex enough neuronal network with enough recursive loops and it already managed to appear more or less random at least once.

The big MacBook Pro was shit. Almost switched to other brand after it.