Summary: The Linux Foundation is being called out on its embrace of DRM by Microsoft-connected podcasters today; what sort of example do Jim Zemlin and fellow imposters set? (They reject Open Source and Linux, but they misuse these brands)
Garrett was the first person to face sanctions (like muting) in our IRC channels because of his abuse; worse yet, he hijacked other people's names and then locked them out of their own accounts
People creating their own platforms means progress, whereas centralisation (like moving from blogs to social control media) is the opposite of progress
If it was googlebot, it would be possible to argue that you'd at least then get referral traffic from Google Search. With LLMs, all you get is plagiarised.
If people are willing to tolerate standard declines and enshittification (nowadays sold as "pivot to AI" or "replaced by AI" or "AI layoffs") they will pay for it some other way
