Nepenthe

Exactly. I’ve only ever pirated things I couldn’t afford, and even then I kept a running list of the good ones in the hopes that one day I could pay them legitimately. When I can afford to buy them fairly, I don’t pirate.

I was a thief when I was starving and I’m a damn thief now.

From an apparently uninformed discord user, deets? Granted, I’ve been annoyed at their insistence on monetizing via unasked-for “perks” I’ve absolutely never even thought to be interested in. But I’ve never felt like I was treated ill, and I assume there’s something I haven’t heard of

Can I not, though? With the proper software, I can add and alter video frames. This is still a bit limited now, but deepfakes are on the rise. I can already download someone else’s art and add in whatever I want.

The only difference is whether or not the original creators/publishers approve of me doing that, not whether I’m able.

I can’t help myself. Are you going to add in a comma after “posted,” then?

With full knowledge that OP is unlikely to check the comments from a non-ml instance, so they’ll likely never see this, I think in light of this sustained situation, we need to discuss whether or not we actually do defederate from lemmy.ml.

Some people over there do know about the dev’s weird scummy coding. Some, like OP, don’t. Either way, neither of the devs have said a word about it in over a week despite being repeatedly asked and the topic repeatedly coming up even on their own instance. They may be bogged, but I sense they would have by now and it’s likely to stay like this.

I think I’m going to give them a little more time, and then (maybe over the weekend?) I’m going to raise the question if someone else doesn’t, about how their contributions to the apparent activity of kbin feeds weighs against our wholesale inability to fully interact with any of it. We can talk with each other there, certainly, but I don’t think that’s enough and it gives a false impression.

Wait, was that the one that had a community list well into the twenties? Or was that someone else? I don’t think all that stuff reached me, but I did hear about a wannabe powermod like a week and a half ago. Much good that does anyone in a defederated system.