Recent searches
Search options
During the Napster wars, the record labels *seriously* pissed off millions of internet users when they sued over 19,000 music fans, mostly kids, but also grannies, old people, and dead people.
--
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/14/contesting-popularity/#everybody-samba
1/
Well. The Napster wars anecdote put a lot of my pacing across the floor into perspective. I'd like to wait until there's some proper federation, but I'm also impulsive, and a small-time artist, and feeling the pressure to join ASAP, because artists have been 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 there.
@bigolifacks @pluralistic Same. Decided to hold off for now, but given my size I could benefit from the growing network effects over there.
Would hate to build a community, though, only for it to fall apart when the owner(s) lose their mind before any solid bridges elsewhere have been built.
Wish the digital world didn't just feel like one giant honeypot.
