I think they’re hated because they’re synonymous with broken group chats and low res photos. Hopefully EU forcing rss adoption fixes these instead of having to download an app to ‘fit in’.

I personally care because it means destroying the livelihoods of artists in exchange for shitty nonsensical bootlegs of art. Making it bad press is really the only recourse we have against this.

The analogy I have always used is that it’s like trying to cook in someone else’s kitchen and all of the things you need aren’t where you’d usually look.

I feel like the Internet Archive is current day’s library of Alexandria and it’s going to get burned down for nothing.

Copyright in the US is an absolute joke.