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Well there you have it. You are the blueprint!

I keep coming back to the idea of cooperatives. If say me, you and three other people all use Lemmy and Mastodon, what's to stop us putting £10 into a pot monthly to pay for hosting and the domain. I don't think the problem is the willingness, I think its just the culture. We need to build the culture up of people investing in their freedom and autonomy. We need to build the infrastructure for cooperatives to thrive.

I also like think we should have governments donating towards hosting and teaching people about self hosting. Whether on a VPS or in home.

We do need to create a culture of donations within the FOSS community. But we also need to get real with our expectations. People don't realise how much time and effort has gone into Lemmy to where it is. People think that creating an alternative is quick and easy and it's not. Honestly, for more people, their time would be better invested in creating an alternative front-end rather than a whole new piece of software. A one person development team just isn't sustainable for 99% of projects. New software takes a lot of time to get to a state where it's ready.

I'm sorry, but this sounds… you are aware you're asking people to run a social network just so you're not inconvenienced, right and why would the developer just relinquish control of their flagship to appease you?

I just don't understand how you got there ahead of finding another kbin instance, switching to mbin? Switching to Lemmy?

Just looked it up, it doesn't seem to be available yet

I honestly don't think you're a bad person, I just think that you're blinded by a red mist right now. You'll think back to this later and laugh about it, I'm sure. Have a good day.

IIRC, Spotify added FLAC recently

I'm guessing you haven't had your coffee yet, because I blatantly said

You and I know that this is programmatically simple and should be the default behaviour, however in this age, at least according to marketing, it's AI.

If you want to fight for the sake of fighting, please go find someone else. It's too early for this stupidness.

Lidarr also supports Usenet

I'm sorry, but you're being ridiculous. Why should it be an add-on to say merge two identical rows from a database query?

I mean the address bar. If I type in a port which I know something is on locally, it shows me five different entries pointing to the same thing. I'm saying they should be merged. You and I know that this is programmatically simple and should be the default behaviour, however in this age, at least according to marketing, it's AI.

Meh, if it will do stuff like merging results in the awesome bar, I'll happily take it.