• null@slrpnk.net
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    22 hours ago

    My computer isn’t free, nor is my internet connection, nor is my electricity.

    When did I call Google searches “free”?

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      12 hours ago

      Exhausting. If you don’t consider anything in the world is free, why did you bother saying Lemmy isn’t free?

      Plus this argument is rubbish, it’s like saying “my car isn’t free, nor is the road, nor is my petrol, so the beach isn’t free”.

      Just because you have to buy clothes to go out for a walk, it doesn’t make it any less free.

      What are you trying to argue here? That the term “free” shouldn’t exist because in a capitalist society everything has dependencies? (I still don’t get how that relates to my original post which was purely about doing business with corporations).

      Then fine, Lemmy isn’t free, neither is the sun, or going for a walk. You win. Good day sir.

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          8 hours ago

          Yes I do. I’m totally the one who can’t understand that “free” is a nuanced concept and something can be free when there are costs but they are externalised.

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            7 hours ago

            And yet you can’t fathom the difference between hosting and maintaining something, versus consuming something.

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              6 hours ago

              Enlighten me, why do you think I can’t tell the difference? Is it because as a maintainer I want to provide something for free? Do you see “consumers” of free content as leeches?

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                6 hours ago

                Because you think hosting Lemmy yourself is the same monetary cost as doing a Google search.

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                  4 hours ago

                  You’re funny. 😂 What I actually think is that your mind reading skills are terrible because I never said anything even remotely similar to that.

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                    3 hours ago

                    Don’t run it on a raspberry pi, run it on the same computer you use to access the Google search you are happy to call “free”.