Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 188

Oh no! It likes like trisquel.info has been blocked by the #GreatFirewall :( Why would they want to block a GNU/Linux distro site?

@Adoxographer
Ethical businesses only work if people make an individual choice to buy their products over corporate one even though the ethical products are often cheaper - at least at first - due to things like economies of scale, and access to capital

@Adoxographer

∆ *individual consumer "activism"* can't really help,

I get that this is the claim. What I'm arguing is that this claim is objectively false. Just ask anyone who has tried to run a cooperative or social enterprise that makes or sells organic or fair trade food products, or non-toxic cosmetic or cleaning products, or computers with only free code software etc.

@laser @pbandkate yeah good luck educating the general public about your "radical" views if you can't even have an open-minded discussion with someone who is sympathetic to them. This kind of hypersensitive allergy to opinions that don't exactly match some perceived party line, is a big part of why the left is losing ground almost everywhere in the world. I sincerely hope this can change.

@pbandkate @laser ok, so what are some other options?

@pbandkate @laser does it though? Or could it maybe place it in the domain of "normal, everyday things that can be a source of humour"? Instead of the domain of "scary, eldritch things that may only ever be discussed in hushed and reverent tones and never while naked or masked"?

@h @mayel @matslats true, but one effective way to compete with that is a pitch based on shared values. I envision the digital equivalent of organic grocery cooperatives computing with corporate supermarkets or independent coffee house cooperatives competing with corporate cafe chains #DigitalCafes

@ink_slinger I do wonder about the logic of asking for a "face cloth" for cleaning your ass crack ;-) Remind me of the way you North American folks ask for the bathroom when you need the toilet. I mean, what do you do if the bathroom you get directed to doesn't have a toilet in it? Go ask again but put a weird emphasis on the word "bathroom"? :-P

@ink_slinger you might very well think that, but I couldn't possibly comment O:-)

@pbandkate @laser do you think it could help make non-standards pronouns less scary if folks feel free to be a bit silly with them sometimes? Genuine question.

@Adoxographer seems to me this sets up a false dichotomy. If this workers in the sweatshops spend their wages on clothes from local businesses that paid better wages, there would be more of those jobs in their local area. Not treating that as a strategic opportunity, and just giving that money back to the same companies exploiting them, seems just as nuts to me as thinking consumer activism is the only kind. It's not this or that, it's both! It's everything that could help.

@gecko @falgn0n also what is it about the Aurora front-end you like better than the Yalp one?

@axelspireseries @erosdiscordia but if you don't have the tools to enforce copyright, neither ARR copyright nor a NC clause can help you. Again, I think mutual benefit organizations have a valuable role here, like the Smart Coop for example:
https://smart-eu.org/

@axelspireseries @erosdiscordia that's what the NonCommercial clause in #CreativeCommons licensing is for. The #CreatorEndorsedMark is a good way to let people who want a fair share of the money they spend to reach you know where to spend it:
https://questioncopyright.org/creator_endorsed_mark

@axelspireseries @erosdiscordia yeah something about keeping my work under wraps until it appears for the first time on dead trees doesn't feel right to me either. This is one of the reasons LeanPub appeals, despite being a "non-free network service", and not the sort of thing I normally promote. I was thinking about using it to motivate myself to complete a first draft of Email Ate My Life over the winter:
https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/email-ate-my-life

@axelspireseries @erosdiscordia we sure do need that. I did a bit of uni study but it was distance learning, and I never gained much of a peer group from it. I'm not a total hermit, but I know very few people who are passionate about writing as a creative art rather than just a means of recording shopping lists or shower thoughts.

@TheGibson Cool! Maybe I'll look into doing a line of #Disintermedia merch. Would you recommend Custom Ink for that?

@axelspireseries @erosdiscordia To to paraphrase Oscar, the only thing worse than having your work copied and shared is *not* having your work copies and shared ;)

@axelspireseries @erosdiscordia steal is a word that only applies to material things. I refuse to accept the ideological claim that copying is stealing. Yes, I want people to pay me for my work as a creator, but to help me get to that point I *want* people to copy and share my stuff as much as humanly possible. There's no way I will ever build the profile for my work that makes it seem worth paying if it isn't being widely distributed and talked about.

@erosdiscordia @axelspireseries it seems like it's still possible to sell short stories to literary magazines, and that this is still a good way to build a reputation as a serious writer. I've read the submission guidelines for a few magazines, and one thing they all say is they want the right of first publication, so no point submitting anything that's been shared on the web.