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can Internet strangers do anything to help?
Thank you for asking, sincerely, but if Internet strangers tear into me for just having my comments have licensing footer text, there's no way I'm going to start stating any of my real issues that I'm dealing with, for them to judge.
~This~ ~comment~ ~is~ ~licensed~ ~under~ ~CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0~
People focus so much on “but it’s not enforceable” and “you don’t own what you say on the Internet” that they forget it’s a statement of intention.
You’re sharing your support, however nominal, for good causes. I see nothing wrong with that ¯\(ツ)/¯
People used to put goofy-ass sign-offs on comments back in forum days; a couple extra lines of text that don’t hurt anybody shouldn’t be an issue.
You keep doing you, comrade. /gen /pos
People focus so much on “but it’s not enforceable” and “you don’t own what you say on the Internet” that they forget it’s a statement of intention.
My inner tinfoil hat persona thinks its just corporate bots/astroturfers trying to shape the narratived away from every adding a license to their comments, as it truly does hold legal power.
Regular people either agree to different degress, or think its harmless and don't care. Its only a few that REALLY REALLY REALLY get bent out of shape about it, for strange reasons (which goes back to fueling my inner tinfoil hat persona).
You’re sharing your support, however nominal, for good causes. I see nothing wrong with that ¯(ツ)/¯
Exactly, or moreso, additionally. My license allows for open-source/non-profit usage of my content, giving back to everybody else.
I just don't believe that Corporations should be able to make money off of my content without compensating me for it, as that is one of the fundamental tenants of Capitalism.
You keep doing you, comrade. /gen /pos
Thanks for your support, its appreciated. o7
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I support you in wanting to post whatever text you want that isn't hurting other people. I do not believe your footer text is hurting other people, so you should be able to post it.
However, I find it very annoying to read through comments and continuously have to re-read your footer because I believe it is text you are intending for your audience to read on the topic on the thread. This is my problem though, not yours.
So my solution is to block just your footer text from rendering in my browser. Using uBlock Origin I've added the following filter to my browser:
lemmy.world##[href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.en"]
I believe you would support this action because you've communicated its for consumption by corporations and AI and not other readers of Lemmy. This may also be helpful to you, because you can refer other people like me that hate looking at your footer all the time. You get to keep your footer, and we don't have to ever see it again. Have a great day!
I believe you would support this action because you’ve communicated its for consumption by corporations and AI and not other readers of Lemmy.
This is not true.
The license declaration is supposed to be communicating to all readers, as it lets others know that my content is licensed for free use for open source purposes.
It's not just to prevent for-profit usage, it's also to notify that it's available for non-profit usage.
Also, generally speaking, there may be legal issues with stripping a license declaration from content.
~This~ ~comment~ ~is~ ~licensed~ ~under~ ~CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0~
The license declaration is supposed to be communicating to all readers, as it lets others know that my content is licensed for free use for open source purposes.
Well I've read it once, and thats all I'll ever need to. Message received! Now we both get what we want. I don't need to read it ever again, and you can keep posting it, I'll just never see it.
Also, there may be legal issues with stripping a license declaration from content.
I'm not stripping it. Its still there. I'm just not rendering it to make it visible on my screen.
I'm not advocating that you shouldn't do what you want with your own ublock origin settings.
Aka, you do you.
Thanks! I'm saying the same to you, and offering you something to point to for others that get on your case about your footer.
I bookmarked your comment, to refer others to it when they're getting pissed off at me.
I don't know if it'd be easier than just telling them to block me, but at least now they'll have a choice.
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Doing great, working hard at work and saving as much as I can. Helping my girlfriend come to the US for a year or two so we can pad the savings further and GTFO. Big plans for starting a business later on so we can get a bigger slice of the pie, and exercising/gaming for downtime.
Even if I don't like it here, I've worked out a good future plan filled with contingencies. Very lucky to have my opportunities, not gonna squander them 🙏
I had my first manic episode a couple weeks ago that put me in the hospital. Honestly it was terrifying, but I'm very thankful for my friends, family, med team, and some Internet strangers that made me reevaluate my lemmy instance. I've been recovering and truthfully feeling a lot better. I'm working on getting decent sleep again, but otherwise feeling good
My work life although crazy I still love, my church and my friends there are the light of my life. I love my dogs, my elderly pug is having some problems but it is what it is, my other dog is perfection and pure badness. My beloved aunt didn't need any oncology treatment after a bowel resection for cancer and is back to her normal self and turns 87 soon and is totally independent and still leads backstage tours at the local theater. Those are the good things.
Bad:
Okay I guess.
I've got a tweaked muscle in my back from helping my mom move some heavy furniture around last weekend still. Other than that I have no major complaints about life at the moment.
I do have the minor complaint that people like you think anyone who holds even one single stance that is slightly right of center is a full blown conservative (even when they have never voted red in their lives), but you walked away from that thread to make this post just like most people on this site do when they don't know what to say to me anymore.
So far Lemmy users seem to think there are "normal" people who are exactly like them (which is extremely far left) and then anyone who is even slightly right of that is considered a nazi conservative racist Republican shitbag that deserves to die.
But other than those things life is peachy. How about you?
Also waffles>French toast> pancakes