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That said, in real life, there's nothing "metal" in animal exploitation.

Bro, pull up a video of a McDonald's meat factory and tell me that shit ain't metal as fuck

Also why are you mad that I'm not being serious this is the meme community not the philosophy community

Hey! That's not very nice. Please apologize!

Carnist also sounds pretty cool

Apart from cheese breather none of those hit the same, you need to get better slurs. Cheese breather also isn't metal enough for my tastes. Stick with bloodmouth.

Bloodmouth just rolls off the tongue better than all those, please continue calling me that

Vegans giving us the most metal nickname possible expecting us to not like it

Every single website or app on the internet is at least partially built on free software. The internet as we know couldn't exist without the crowdfunded and volunteer-only work of open-source folks.

Doesn't disprove my point at all. You can say that some innovation and upkeep is done by volunteers, but paid labor does way more innovation and way more upkeep on the Internet. For example, the day-to-day maintenance of things like Youtube, a cornerstone of many people's lives, is done for profit by paid workers.

So what is left to finance in order to free us from vampire companies? Hosting fees? That's cheap compared to the other costs..

Well, the thing is, some hosting fees are higher than others, and people do not like paying for things. This is why YouTube has had to get so predatory with its advertising, if they switched to relying on donations to cover the astronomical upkeep costs of being the go-to video hosting service, they'd go under within a week. Websites like Wikipedia, which mostly hosts letters and images, are way more affordable, and the limited number of people who donate are enough to keep it up.

Not sure about that, see how the migration from Twitter, Reddit and other shitty platforms takes time? You can't just leave if the people you like to interact with stay on the other side.

I thought the entire point of the Fediverse was that you can interact with people from different instances as long as those two instances are federated with eachother. Using another instance allows you to keep interacting with the original instance's userbase while avoiding most of the ads or poor moderation that comes with it.

They wouldn't get into it without a plan to monetize it, that's the type of things they're known for..

I wasn't referring to nor do I care about monetization, I'm mostly referring to enshittification and monopolization.

The only reason why I know how to do anything more on a computer than what I needed for school and Roblox is because some of my hobbies require you to mess around with a computer. Even then, the most technical things I've done include modding video games (sometimes I go hackerman mode and edit a text file to change a modded hotkey) and downloading specialized software to play ancient Flash games or fix a KSP save. You can get around just fine online these days without even using a computer. Most of Gen Z just uses their phone.

I guess some people just deserve the social media they get

Why do you assume that who I assume to be you and who I assume to be who you assume to be me are being assumed to be an ass? Big assumption

r/Imaginarymaps.

Idk I just heard that apparently knowing how to use file explorer is considered impressive in modern CS classes