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midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 02:34:09 JST 
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Like…..
Given you can see it on the internet at zero consumer cost, that’s going to be tough to mitigate. -
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midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 02:24:28 JST
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No one is saying you have to like it. I’m just saying you can’t practically ban it. -
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midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 01:44:12 JST
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If your goal is to make mainstream porn less profitable, the Internet already did that. Amateurs are giving it away for free makes it tougher to earn a living selling it. The Internet is also why you won’t have much success keeping it from people. It’s really tough when you don’t need to get a physical item like a gun, a drink, or a pill. And we can’t effectively stop those things from being sold…not even in prisons. Do you really think you will stop people from accessing porn on the Internet?
Most of your moral arguments were also used by the prohibitionists. Alcohol was harming families and, ultimately, children. -
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midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 01:01:11 JST
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You draw lines when you have actual harm to kids. That’s why child porn is illegal. You can’t make it without harming children.
And the vast majority of porn consumers never go near that path. Just like the vast majority of alcohol drinkers are not alcoholics. You don’t ban booze because some people can’t handle their liquor. We tired that. It caused more problems than it solved. You would have the same results here.
Focus enforcement on the truly criminal and leave everyone else alone. -
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midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 00:23:58 JST
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I guess the best way to stop the murdering of children is to ban all murder.
If something is already illegal, you don’t fix it by making something adjacent to it illegal. It’s almost like criminals don’t care that it’s illegal.
Not to mention the endless arguments over what is porn exactly.
My point is not to advocate for porn but rather to show that more banning of things that aren’t child porn won’t fix the actual problem of child porn. All you will accomplish is to make millions upon million of harmless people criminals while not stopping child porn at all. -
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midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 09:03:23 JST
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@alex likely knows. -
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midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Thursday, 10-Aug-2023 00:17:45 JST
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The problem is that you can’t offer unlimited free then be shocked when no one pays.
Nostr is interesting. Keeping my eye on it, especially as a Rebased/Soapbox admin, seeing what Alex is doing with integrating the two could be game changing. -
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midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Thursday, 10-Aug-2023 00:08:15 JST
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I don’t see the big model working. The whole point is (and should be) lots of small instances.
Teaching people how to do this is a good idea. Charging to manage it for them is a business. There are a couple of guys who are starting this idea up, but I doubt they want host poast users as they are very much on the other side of the great wall of Mastodon. We could use a service on the anti-censorship side of the Fediverse.
But even if you don’t have the tech skills to host out of your house, you should be able to run an instance using a VSP + Cloudiron for around $10 USD/month + a domain. If you have decent tech skills you could run one out if your house for even cheaper.
The future of federated stuff is lots of tiny instances. It really is easier than most people think. If anyone out there is interested in learning how, hit me up if you want tips on how to do it. -
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midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 05:06:41 JST
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Getting blocked doesn’t bother me. I’m pretty milquetoast in my opinion and am open to different ideas.
The 150 or so instances that have blocked me so far fall into 2 categories:
1. Instances that are so narrow minded that they can’t stand anyone who might disagree with them in any way.
2. Instances that blindly block from some of the big block lists. These folks have likely never seen anything from my instance.
Either way while it’s unfortunate that they decided to block me, it’s not truly a problem for me and it certainly doesn’t hurt. It’s a big internet out there. You can’t please everyone. -
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midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 11:26:53 JST
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Hey @alex
So I'm trying to migrate my instance to another box. Install is easy enough, but then I try to migrate my database.
I stop pleroma on the source
I run a backup: sudo -Hu pleroma pg_dump -Fc pleroma > <file>
Then I move the file over to the new box and try to restore it:
sudo -Hu pleroma pg_restore -d pleroma -ve -j 4 pleroma.14jul23
pg_restore: connecting to database for restore
pg_restore: processing item 4163 ENCODING ENCODING
pg_restore: processing item 4164 STDSTRINGS STDSTRINGS
pg_restore: processing item 4165 SEARCHPATH SEARCHPATH
pg_restore: processing item 4166 DATABASE pleroma
pg_restore: processing item 4167 DATABASE PROPERTIES pleroma
pg_restore: processing item 2 EXTENSION citext
pg_restore: creating EXTENSION "citext"
pg_restore: processing item 4168 COMMENT EXTENSION citext
pg_restore: creating COMMENT "EXTENSION citext"
pg_restore: while PROCESSING TOC:
pg_restore: from TOC entry 4168; 0 0 COMMENT EXTENSION citext
pg_restore: error: could not execute query: ERROR: must be owner of extension citext
Command was: COMMENT ON EXTENSION citext IS 'data type for case-insensitive character strings';
So I'm getting an error, but when I fire up pleroma on the new box and connect, my user isn't there which I presume is in the database.
What am I missing? Thanks. -
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midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jul-2023 17:59:31 JST
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Claiming something has no value to society isn't up to any one person. Society itself decides that as it's subjective. Saying that you can only make money based on time you worked is a silly argument. Investments can produce passive income. And the business model depends on having more than one person pay for the product. Otherwise the price for the first copy would be astronomical. Insisting that each user pay is a way to keep the price down.
What piracy has lead us to is software and other digital media being offered as subscription services more directly (e.g. SaaS). So for those of us who actually prefer having an actual copy, that option is slowly going away. So you end up renting it more explicitly than before anyway.
I say all this as a proponent of FOSS. I use some of those products and have around 50 GitHub repos all with an MIT license. But the creator should get to decide if he wants to release his product as FOSS or not. -
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midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 16:48:01 JST
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But you don’t own it. What you purchased was a license to use and that license has term and conditions. If you don’t like them, don’t use the product.
Just like a rental car. You are paying for a right to use it. Could you potentially buy the cat from the agency? Sure but that is a different transaction at a different price. Could you buy the full rights to the digital product? Sure, but that’s a different transaction with a different price. -
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midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 23:30:09 JST
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@Suiseiseki
Just demanding money isn’t depriving you because there is no exchange. The exchange with digital assets is the use of those assets. You are claiming entitlement to use something without paying for it. That is entirely different from demanding money from someone on the street. -
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midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 23:11:51 JST
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If you didn't pay for it, you have deprived them of the money for the purchase. That is the fruits of their work.
You speak of entitlement, but that's exactly what you are claiming. They aren't entitled to your money but you are entitled to their work because ... reasons. -
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midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 23:07:55 JST
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So someone is only entitles to sell 1 copy of their work because once they do that it's public domain? Yeah, that's not going to work.
You may have an expectation of how a digital marketplace works, but it's up to you to understand how it works before putting down your money. I think these markets should also make their terms readily accessible and understandable, but the point stands that the seller can set terms of the transaction. It's then up to the buyers whether they accept them or not. -
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midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 23:07:53 JST
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The fact that they are still in business justifies your theft? Yeah, looters use that reasoning to justify their actions as well.
Like I've said elsewhere in this thread. We've all done it at some point. My larger objection is trying to morally justifying it. If you're going to steal, at least have the balls to say that's what you're doing and that it's not some noble act. -
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midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 23:07:52 JST
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You can try to justify it all you want, you're still a thief. I'm sure many thieves construct narratives in their head to justify why they steal. This is just your version of that. It's just ok to steal what you want to steal and it's bad when other people steal what they want to steal.
And like I said, I get it. It happens. But just state that and leave it at that. Your "moral compass" is just a rationalization engine to help you justify in your head why it's ok. -
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midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 23:07:50 JST
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You are depriving the inventors of the fruits of their work.
The fact that you don't respect them doesn't change that. -
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midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 05:52:58 JST
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@meowski @gamesbymanuel @JAJAX @Kirino @MMS21 @bot
You are free to write your own software (and make it entirely open source) if you like. I mean, the software you want isn’t innovative and simple, right? -
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midway (midway@soapbox.midwaytrades.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 01:22:56 JST
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So stealing a rental car is not theft?
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