Or you could just read the one book eight times for 99.6℅. Why buy more than one when one is enough to read as many times as you like?

SMH, that's not how books work. What a complete waste of money. You only needed to buy one copy, to then read it twice.

Of course it is relevant.

That action may be what removed a post or comment from a community you frequent, or a user you like seeing. Or a post you commented on and get left wondering why the post disappeared.

Mod actions don't apply to just the instance the mod or community is on, they apply fediverse-wide on all instances where there are subsribers to that community.

If the admin of MY instance removes one of MY comments, such as this one made in reply to you, you might want to see why.

You can already filter modlogs by user. And if you want to narrow things down more, you ARE aware that each community has their own modlogs that only show actions for that community?

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Edit: noticed you DID post there, I thought you didn't because thunder didn't list any cross-posts.

If you re-use the same image link in any additonal posts, or use the cross-post feature, lemmy will link your posts up so people can navigate across their comment sections in apps that support it, like thunder.

If you want, you can still edit one post to use the image link from the other.

Please use the cross-posting feature instead of creating posts that link to other posts.

How is displaying mod actions from federated communities any more "tangential" than displaying the posts from them in the "all" feed?

It's like asking why anyone would ever need more than the "local" feed.

You can filter the modlog to only show actions related to a given user, which is by far the most useful one, and you'd want that to include ALL relevant entries, on or off-instance.

All mod actions on all instances and communities are relevant, why would users on a given instance only need to be able to see modlogs for their own instance?

They are interacting with the whole fediverse, so why shouldn't they have access to the log of mod actions on the whole fediverse, too?

If I'm on my instance, and get banned from a community by a mod on another instance, in a community on another instance, I would still want to be able to check when and why that happened in the modlog on MY instance.

Or if some other user I know has disappeared, wherever mod actions have been taken agaibst them, should still show up on my instance.

I don't know what client you are using, but the default webUI can apply filters and do searches in the modlog.

Spotify is losing nothing. They take their cut either way.

The only people getting their money stolen are real artists. Their share of the income shrinks as these scammers inflate the number of plays that the money is shared between.

AFAIK YT Music does this. The money from your subscription gets divided amongst whatever you listened to.

That still wouldn't address the stolen account problem, but yes, it'd be a huge improvement.

I have no idea why Spotify still sticks to this massively exploitable model, except for the fact that it MASSIVELY inflates their stats for investors and advertisers.

No.

Music play-farming has been a thing for probably almost a decade by now.

Spotify divides the huge amount of money they get from subscribers each month, evenly among all the plays during that month.

Someone figured out ages ago, that since spotify has a free tier, that means that if you can get some tracks on spotify as an artist, you can then create an army of free-tier bot accounts and massively inflate the share of the money you get paid as an "artist".

Of course, this comes at the cost of everyone elses legit plays becoming worth less. Its an absolutely disgusting scam and Spotify has been ignoring it happening for years.

Adding AI generation into the mix is barely an innovation.

Edit: And if you're wondering how it works with services that don't have a free tier, it is done by hijacking peoples real accounts, then having them stream the relevant tracks over and over. Either by stealing entire accounts, or infecting devices that are already logged in with malware that will open the relevant app/website and play the tracks over and over.

You're not wrong.

The kind of art humanity creates is skewed a lot by the need for it to be marketable, and then sold in order to be worth doing.

But copyright is better than nothing, and this exemption would straight up be even worse than nothing.

The whole point of copyright in the first place, is to encourage creative expression, so we can have human culture and shit.

The idea of a "teensy" exception so that we can "advance" into a dark age of creative pointlessness and regurgitated slop, where humans doing the fun part has been made "unnecessary" by the unstoppable progress of "thinking" machines, would be hilarious, if it weren't depressing as fuck.