Sorry, book broke

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Hello [XMunk], we’d like to thank you for your time here at this company and we understand this may come as a surprise but due to the current corporate ‘right sizing’ the company is undertaking we are sad to inform you of the cessation of your responsibilities. We wish you the best in your future endeavours and hope in the future you may rejoin our family. Due to internal performance reviews we understand that you are not eligable for severance benefits, but if you sign the attached forms we will be happy to help you out in receiving your Vacation pay.

    Our best, BookBrokeCorp


  • Oh wow! Now they’ll have to make sure their shareholders are profiting and happy keeping them in mind for all decisions. No worries though, they gave ‘us’ first shot at it! So If some massive multimillion dollar company who’s sole motivation is profit comes in and buys more than we could ever really it’s our fault for being poor.

    What a non-scummy way to announce a public offering. Stating that we, the good people, can give them more free money while they take upward of 5 years to deliver something you may not even find valuable at that time. Will we be able to upgrade our shares in four years in order to get the updated version by paying more under vague threats that we’ll recieve nothing if we don’t pay up? I wonder if it’ll include a bunch of proprietary firmware and software when it releases even though we all payed for a fully FOSS product? When we try to sell the share will they say “sorry, we’ve updated our policy, you aren’t allowed to get your money back”?




  • sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.workstoOpen Source@lemmy.mlPLZ good PeerTube alternative
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    11 months ago

    Mastadon had a similar issue before the blowup. It’s not possible to stop in a completely open source and federated service. By design, anybody can join in, and create a new instance to do with as they please

    If you want to make it better we need more servers that block this trash, and who have larger user-bases than the current ones. Create quality content on reasonable instances, advertise these sites, and bring other creators in