fluffykittycat

IP is evil

None. Literally none. Just corporate greed

Come to think of it, how accurately can facial recognition tell apart to people who look very similar?

They have cradles that hold them so a camera can photograph them. You then save the book afterwards

I love Anna's archive

All of the above, preferably

It's fine if Legacy email Remains the thing that could spend whereas email 2 can be used for actual correspondence between people

There's a huge difference, an absolute chasm, between non-destructive scanning, which was always an option by the way, for the purposes of putting it in a public archive and And destructive scanning with the intent to hide it from the public where it may never surface for all we know.

Copyright law is not some philosophically derived right it's literally just a government granted Monopoly that was invented in the 1700s because printers wanted dibs on books. It literally serves Now function other than giving advantages to our corporate overlords

Me and a couple other people have ran into on the internet have thought that we need to invent "email 2", a clean slate implementation of email that serves it's asynchronous long form and attachment friendly function while leaving behind Decades of Cruft . We can make it into an encrypted by default and have conveniences that we never had before. It might even be an actual useful thing instead of just being the thing you sign up for accounts with to get to 2fa codes and spam from websites you buy stuff from

Honestly self hosted email can be just for self hosters talking to one another and that's fine

At minimum run an instance for posting stuff you make. It doesn't have to be open to randos to be useful. Pool together the tech staff, make pbs.social and all the stations and get accounts, you can follow them, boost, repost, comment under it from another instance