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  • Hmm, it’s strange grey area. Sometimes piracy is the only way to make the book not disappear. There are niche, low circulation books and magazines which without piracy would disappear and became almost unavailable.

    Sometimes the book is no longer in the print because of many reasons:

    1. Author changed her / his mind and no longer wishes to publish it, at least in the original edition / version.
    2. Copyrights are being taken over and the final copyright owner ceases to republish it even when paid.
    3. Copyrights owner doesn’t know that his the owner of some books and it leads to the legal limbo.
    4. Low circulated books & magazines don’t survive until the copyrights expire - owners of the books die and their next heirs believe the books / magazines are just garbage and burn it or throw it away.

    Ethics & piracy is pretty strange combination and there is no easy answer for it





  • The user base has changed. Before it used to be used by young people willing to share their parts of lives, exchanging f.e. studying material Now it is used by mostly older people (over 30) having family not willing that much to share anything from their lives except from talking to their relatives over the messanger.

    So who creates the information today? I guess bots and sometimes some facebook groups but I noticed that facebook shares your group posts to absolutely not related people to that group.

    Including your mum and sister, the posts related on smoking weed and going to techno parties.

    Young people (Gen-Z) don’t use facebook pretty much at all. Sometimes maybe messanger because of their family











  • endofline@lemmy.catoFediverse@lemmy.worldMatrix let-down
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    22 days ago

    Yes, while desktop is mostly working well, other clients are far from being usable. I totally agree with this and choices of matrix foundation are not making it any better imo. Their inventing “new features” and not polishing current ecosystem, is not a best strategic choice




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    Which client do you use? Desktop is the best working, second android element slow and laggy but fullest implementation so far, worst are element x which they created only to test still draft phase feature speeding up syncing but otherwise half backed. There is no other third party clients which would be significantly complaint with the protocol