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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I would like lemmy as a whole to know more of this comic. Hell, the entire tech and coding space. Look, i love tech but some of you guys can be absolute bellends to people not knowing something and it turns plenty of people off from even learning.

    “WhAt YoU dOn’T kNoW hOw To MaKe A fIlE? It’S eAsY, iF yOu DoN’t KnOw ThEn YoU sHoUlDn’T bE uSiNg ThIs PrOgRaM!!!”

    My brother in Christ maybe they want to learn, some people are neurodivergent and they don’t pick up new information as easily the first go around

    Sorry rant over




  • This is such a flawed argument though, many of us remember when these services started coming out and the general Zeitgeist was “wow! What an amazing and interesting way to connect to each other!” There wasn’t too much public concern that our works would be sold to companies because these were just “platforms” places where you could shout out to the world about your passion.

    The idea that this was a mistake the end user should have known better about is wrong because there was no preconception that your creative ideas were at any sort of risk, AI didn’t exist and it was commonly accepted that “of course you owned this, you made it”.

    If you apply such a modern lens to the very early stages of the internet, of course it’s going to look stupid. But remember that most people at the time thought they’d be safe and wouldn’t willingly subject themselves to this kind of treatment