IninewCrow

Major corporations and global companies no longer really care about nation states or nationalities any more. All they care about is making money and they don’t follow any ethics when it comes to that.

If you push them in one way or another … they just shift responsibility, change a name, change a direction, change a shell company and move stuff around, tell everyone they’ve changed and continue with business as usual in whatever way they please.

They can circumvent any national law for and from one country to another … they can do one thing in one country that can’t be done in another and vice versa and if they get stuck, they just call up international law litigate and get business done anyway.

It’s getting to the point where nations no longer matter much any more … it’s the corporations that have all the power and control.

Didn’t the world fight a world war to stop this kind of government from taking full control over a people?

This is exactly how I think humanity will play out the climate crisis … ‘let’s maintain the economy and wealth of a handful of people, let the majority die, let the population go down and everything will eventually equalize and normalize after millions die off’

So, if you aren’t wealthy now … you’ll be dead soon

and I’ll be the first one to say it because either people don’t want to talk about it or they just don’t think about it

SUPPORT YOUR INSTANCE … SUPPORT YOUR OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

It doesn’t matter who you are on … lemmy, kbin, mastodon or anyone else … find your instance owner and see if they are looking for donations or subscriptions and sign up for them

Sure the only way we can protect this new system is by keeping it federated, open and decentralized … but it all only works if small groups of people pay for the basic hardware services and rental services and any other services out there to keep it all running … yes the costs are minimal for small instances but those costs only add up as their instance becomes more popular.

Supporting your instance means it will stay protected … if you burn out your instance owners or they run into financial trouble … then your instance will start more risks including being shut down or sold to someone else

And it doesn’t take much to support these guys … if we all just gave a dollar a month, it would be more than enough to support them.

One important key lesson that everyone misses is funding … we have to normalize paying a bit of money through donations or subscriptions to those people that maintain instances and those people who maintain, update and build the software … if we all just keep tell ourselves that we all just keep our heads down, lock the door and don’t bother to pay anyone to keep the door locked … the same problems of the past will always emerge … Owners, developers, programmers, instance maintainers just running out of money and enthusiasm because they have the shoulder the financial costs while everyone ignores them and takes everything for granted.

If we all just keep expecting volunteers to keep everything running for us for free … eventually we will run out of willing volunteers as the community grows and the costs add up over time as instances grow more popular

SUPPORT YOUR INSTANCE … whatever platform it is and whatever amount of money you can give … even if it means we just give a dollar a day, across hundreds or thousands of user, it will protect your instance owner, and ensure that the people running your instance never run into a situation where they have to decide on either ending their work … or selling everything they have to make a bit of money back.