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@GoodNewsGreyShoes They were. The video is well worth taking the time, and almost anyone (myself included) will come out of it more educated.
[edit] I’ll also add; some lessons are better learned not through a summary but through the actual process of learning. A summary and an education are different. Otherwise school would be a week of cliff notes and done. These are topics I feel deserve learning; because the summary isn’t really that new.
There’s value in spending time.
@GoodNewsGreyShoes They didn’t though. They said “TL;DW?”.
That’s not asking for help. That’s an incredibly terse way to say “what you made is too long and I didn’t watch it”.
Interpreting that as a “request” involves adding in as much context on your part as interpreting my comment as a rebuke.
In both cases; the “request” and the “rebuke” are not in the original statements.
@utf_7 @TechConnectify Then educate yourself and watch.
@TechConnectify Hero. So much respect.
@stux My point of contention is that nice people doing tons of work and literally funding what other people use with cold hard cash... end up feeling bad about asking the gigantic majority who are simply using their work to *consider* paying towards that work.
This is the fediverse. There are plenty of people who grok the technical effort needed, and open source economics, and have no issues buying $6 coffees on the morning routine.
"Sacrifice" a coffee once a month.
@stux Please do not feel ashamed. There is nothing whatsoever to be ashamed about. Rather the opposite. @not3ottersinacoat soc
@not3ottersinacoat Yeah, Stux is a good person. But the point is that *way too many people* decide that "the host of the party being generous" means *they* can just not contribute and it's OK. When they absolutely could, and should. @soc
If you use Mastodon; please pay for your use. Please.
This is not the corporate web of Twitter and Google. No company is paying for your use of this service. Your use of the service is not being sold to ad companies.
You use it? That is costing your admin owner literal actual money.
Pay for things you like. Or they go away. Or they stay but get taken over by exploitative people that will eventually destroy it.
Please, find your instance owner and pay them some money.
Thanks.