I hate that I saw the word “threadiverse”, knew exactly what it meant, and was still like " ugh frakkin’ kids today gotta have a word for everything… "

Getting old sucks. I don’t recommend it, but I also can’t think of a better alternative.

So say that. One word answers don’t contribute anything, don’t explain anything, and come off as, at best, insulting and dismissive.

Already agree with you, by the way. For exactly the reasons you just outlined. Well, except that I’ve taken to calling it “the bird site” because I don’t think it deserves a proper noun.

While I 100% agree with your sentiment, one-word replies are, like, super dickish.

To which I imagine, if you reply at all, you’ll reply with a single word. So here, let me laugh at your wit:

Ha. Ha. Haaaa.

Fair enough.

Dude, yes, they’re run by one person because it’s a hobby. This is like saying 99.9% of stories don’t get published because there was no profit motive. There usually isn’t when it starts, just a drive to create or fill a perceived void, or even just practice. I write damn near every day with zero profit motive.

Linux wasn’t started with a profit motive. None of the open source BSDs were either. As far as I can tell, they’re still not particularly profit motivated. Neither are a lot of other open source projects that have lasted ages. Where’s the profit motive behind Bash? It’s been around for 34 years.

An inability to pay bills can stop a person from working on a project, but at the end of the day it’s usually not profit that keeps an open source project alive. It’s popularity and passion.

most open source projects burn out and go nowhere, and for-profit businesses have a higher chance of survival

You know like 50% of new businesses fail within 5 years, right? I don’t have stats on open source projects, but it seems to me those are more likely to fail because they’re run by one person who loses interest than because they don’t have a profit motive.

Imma get downvoted for this, but for some reason I care even less than I did on Reddit, which I didn’t think was possible…

Anyway, do you honestly think that if piracy actually caused significant profit loss it would affect the billionaires or anyone else in the “investor class”?

Of course not. They’re going to use the ahem “loss” to justify lower wages.

I’m not saying don’t pirate. I’m just saying you don’t get to pretend like you’re just hurting the class that gets to decide where the loss gets shunted. That’s a wildly naïve view of how the world works. You can’t fuck over the billionaires that way. They have too much power to let you.