No because if you are willing to go through the hassle to get around it then thats fine, until it becomes a big enough issue, I use adblocker, I am simply saying, use my Data so I don’t pay with money that I and the majority of people can’t afford
I have faith in the states/city I live in lol. Maryland/DC will ban the practice, probably the while North east VA upwards, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, West coast, Colorado, and New Mexico would stop this, the feds MIGHT but probably not.
States will ban the practice quickly if companies start price discriminating, the only reason insurance companies have gotten away with it is because they have justified reasons if they started using precision with our data it would be quickly outlawed.
The internet has only been allowed to be a free market because we agreed to be the product. Imagine a world where Google isn’t free, where you are charged per usage like the old phone plans that cost money per amount of letters typed.
Good on you.
I’m not pro coporate I’m pro free internet, if I can connect to it I can use it free.
The cost to run a server is between $0.50 to $2.00 per month depending on how complex it is. So Imagine you had to pay $2.50-$3.00 per website in a patchwork of subscription based sites.
Every .com or .net site that wasn’t selling a product would now require that fee, .gov .edu and .org would likely still be free.
I don’t care about my data because I get to use a free internet with at least ads that are relevant to me and adblocker works relatively well
When is the last time ads on a website were completely random and not at least relevant to you?
donation and volunteer based (Wikipedia does this quite successfully) funded from tax income (as are online government services, crown corporations etc.)
Fair point, Wiki is an outlier in that regaurd and also .org not a .com/.net
I’d count taxes as subscription albeit you don’t get a choice
companies that sell something thru the internet l, and website is an advertising or pm selling platform. This accounts for most sites, tbh, from brands to retailers, to marketplaces like Amazon, Etsy, and Craigslist.
I should have specified non commercial sites.
You mean before they start showing ads? That’s going to happen eventually.
People are using their own money to run these servers its a net loss for them.
It’s something everyone strives for, but after its like okay cool now onto actual life goals.
It could have several even as many as 100 different people with part of the key to access the center point for the passports so that any decisions would have to be unanimous and would keep things purely being monitored for technological updates.
Ideally on a platform similar to Gmail in its decentralized nature but connected to the fediverse and accessable through the main fediverse website as well.
We could allow for duplicate username with a unique 10 digit code identifier allowing you to adjust your privacy settings for each platform.
No. There is no particular reason why there needs to be one (say) twitter alternative.
Having multiple versons of the same type of platform artificially divides the Fediverse and makes it more likely that they’ll split along ideological lines
Heck, there is not even a reason why there should be a alternative. Fediverse is allowed to be their own things.
While it would be awesome if we could figureout unique formats of social media, everything has basically been done, Myspace, Facebook and Linkton are the format of keep up with your friends.
Twitter and BlueSky are the basic format for literally “see whats trending”
Reddit and Lemmy are the basic format of Curated Community Content.
Youtube is the basic video sharing platform.
Tiktok algorithmic video sharing and platform which actually improves on youtube.
It would be really hard to fine a way to make a truly unique social media site but would be awesome
When I say centralization I don’t mean letting a few control the many. This is what I mean.
Figure out what the alternatives are for these sites we don’t need several Twitter alternatives.
Each site needs a front page, Accessible on the Fediverse front page. This allows people to easily make an account.
There should be one main site which will be the largest instance, people can edit the UI to feel how they like, but we need to allow communities to grow big.
To safe guard against point 3, fund the sites with 100s or thousands of co-equal owners. Say you get 5K people donating $5 a week to each site, they each get 1 stock or piece of the “company” and now it prevents a reddit or twitter situation.
The final thing, we need Fediverse user accounts, where once you make an account on 1 site you are automatically signed up to all of them and anyone can follow/subscribe and follow on all platforms, leading to a more cohesive biome
There is going to need to be some centralization of some form for this to work. The fediverse is a mess right now but its such a good idea.
oh thank you for this. That helps that specific issue.
I love this leave it up to the individual. Someone who knows how to code please do this.
While I can see why people might prefer it that way, we are preventing communities from growing and allowing people to find communities who might want to switch from Reddit. If you prefer the UI of one to another now you have to create a brand new community which is going to take time to fill. I use old.lemmy.world because I like the old reddit UI
Easy workers in say UAW use their union money to build an academy. It would slowly move from unions to guilds as the money pooling is the same
I’d say it should only apply to adults, airlines are a business which means they aren’t likely to willingly ban a paying customer unless they deem them an absolute liability. I can see potential situations where staff intentionally instigates the situation but it would be rare and they’d need to explain what happened which is harder to lie. Plus in the age of social media someone is probably filming right at the start to show who’s right or wrong
free in the monetary sense.