Leon

Reading one book, or a single series of books doesn’t make you a reader. I wouldn’t claim to be a plumber just because I’ve fixed my sink a handful of times.

The idea that Harry Potter spawned a “generation of readers” is entirely manufactured by its publishers, there’s no data backing that claim up..

Harry Potter fans aren’t necessarily readers. Harry Potter succeeded because a media empire was built with it, not because it was a good story that spawned a lot of readers.

I was a kid when Jar Jar was new, and I’m still quite fond of the character. To me he’s the best thing about the series (I don’t hold Star Wars in very high regard), so I think you’re on to something.

BlueSky itself is still operated and developed by a corporation though, even if an instance isn’t. Thus you’re still beholden to the whims of the people in charge of that.

Hope some group makes it their mission to start flooding github with garbage code.

Reminder that this in the past this kind of thing has lead to such legal persecution that both Jonathan James aged 24, and Aaron Swartz aged 26, both committed suicide because of it.

Aaron Swartz’ crime? Downloading scholarly articles from JSTOR to distribute to the public.

Now we have multi-billion dollar corporations doing these things, but several times worse, and they’re bribing politicians and running countries!