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  • Centralized services are usually more efficient than decentralized but that’s not the primary goal of the fediverse

    My main concern with this is, if only a handful of centralized social network reached long term stability, and most of them are unprofitable, how can Lemmy (or any other foss fediverse project) completely hold itself on 2 unpaid developers and immense unpaid work from volunteers in the long run.

    Because ok, Lemmy.world is looking for experienced sysadmin and that post already had a little backslash, but this isn’t sustainable long term, it’s impossibile to keep scaling like that.

    And I feel that’s one of the biggest reasons holding back the fediverse


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    Ok but the question that arise is:" if the community is duplicated on every server that access it, isn’t it a little bit of a waste of computational power and disk space ?"

    Expecially considering now Lemmy is pretty small, but in the future you could hopefully have a much larger audience


  • YT’s system that had messed up and not the legal system.

    Oh the legal system is very much messed up, YouTube tried to put a bandage in it. You have to consider that usually you would need a full personalized legal contract for each piece of copyrighted material you use. Content id tries to automate the process, but it’s not perfect.

    A 10-20% royalty should be more than enough to incentivise research while still preventing price-fixing and monopolies.

    Which is what happens with patents today. The company holding the patent rarely also physical produces the drug, they usually have “manufacturing agreements” expecially in geographic far markets; where they let a second company make the drug with the company holding the patent on it and they are free to sell it in exchange for a percentage of the label price.

    That’s also what happened with vaccines and many other medications, it’s like the standard procedure lol




  • Look at this.

    It’s just a single example, there are endless songs which are samples of samples of samples… Once in a while YouTube content id will have some problems as it’s not perfect. It doesn’t mean the system is fundamentally flawed. Like saying every car on the planet is cursed because once you got a flat tyre.

    Only the rich and powerful or those willing to go deeply into debt are able to benefit from all of that extra research.

    Pay attention because the alternative to patents is not a “free for all” approach , it’s industrial secrecy. As research is still very much expensive for entities to carry out.

    Set aside than, no, extra research benefits everyone in the society as new cures for diseases are discovered faster and medicine evolve organically. Patents were the compromise to ensure companies could monetize their research while sharing their knowledge, are there other possible equilibrium? Sure, but we still have to remember we live in the real world, you can’t have a cake and eat it





  • yeah but how much more is Uranium if it’s mined in Canada compared to the one from Niger or Russia?

    Consider the cost from fuel is not mainly for uranium ore, but for fuel manufacturing and processing. Like taking the ore and transformer them in pellets fuel.

    May uranium ore double in price the increase of cost for nuclear would be less than 0,005€/kWh

    start producing energy in 10 years AND are massively expensive is just not a reasonable investment

    How can Japan build a reactor in 36 month but we can’t? How can other countries finance favouribly nuclear power (nuclear is the energy source that most of all the others suffer discount rated) but we can’t?

    Nuclear gave France one of the cheapest electricity price in Europe, but we don’t want to retry because we don’t feel we can achieve it?

    Side note, solar panels have problems too as their carbon footprint could be 3 times higher than expected



  • let people reuse each other’s melodies

    I think this is an interesting example, because it’s already like this. Songs reusing other sampled songs are released all the time, and it’s all perfectly legal. Only making a copy is illegal. No one can sue you if you create a character that resembles mickey mouse, but you can’t use mickey mouse.

    And pharmaceutical patents serves the same scope, they encourage the company to release publicly papers, data and synthesis methods so that other people can learn and research can move faster.

    And the whole point of this is exactly regulating AI like people, no one will come after you because you’ve read something and now you have an opinion about it, no body will get angry if you’ve saw an Instagram post and now you have some ideas for your art.

    Of course the distinction between likeness and copy is not that defined, but that’s part of the whole debacle


  • it’s just not something you can extract easily in countries that care about their citizens so it’ll always come from a shitty place

    First two countries for known reserves are Australia and Canada, together they hold around 40% of all the uranium reserves of the planet. Uranium could also be extracted from seawater, obviously at a much higher price.

    It’s just that it’s easier to extract it where exploitation rights for land is cheap. But that’s unfortunately also true for many materials we need for renewables







  • Democracy spreads the power out through as many people as possible in order to lessen the potential for abuse by any individual actor

    Well, that’s not our democracies work. We don’t let people vote every law by referendum, that would be spreading power as much as possible.

    In ancient Athens it was common, as was common for judiciary decision to be made by 3-4 hundreds people drawn at random. But that’s something almost universally considered stupid now, we have a judge, who we consider an “expert” in law.

    By your definition, we don’t live in a democracy, on the contrary, democracy is extinct on this planet