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While these people are extremely uninformed and their "solutions" would be absolutely catastrophic, they do have a point.

What they're noticing are the effects of corporatism: monopolies and other bad market practices caused by government regulation/meddling, often as a result of lobbying.

I'm talking about chemical patents and "safety regulations" making it practically impossible to compete with big pharma, making medicine extremely overpriced. Or government bailouts of banks which are long beyond bankruptcy causing all sorts of mishaps.

The only solution is a return to true capitalism. Career-politicians are just as guilty as (if not more than) the big corporations.

Interesting, I was not aware of that.

I did not take termination into account in the second paragraph. I was referring to AGPL being addressed to anyone instead of a specific party. This means that a full revocation of the license would revoke it from everyone, even though that's not possible with AGPL. This does not apply to terminating licensees as you mentioned which appears to be what they mean and is possible under condition.

But because of the lack of a violation a permanent termination in 30 days would still be invalid.

This is incorrect. Currently Truth is still internal software not available to the public, AGPL requires distribution of source code alongside the distribution of the program or service. Because Truth is only made available internally, the modified source code only has to be made available to their own company. This would change once the service does go public.

AGPL can also not be "permanently revoked". It's not individually licensed to each user like proprietary software often is, it's one license addressed to anyone. Furthermore the AGPL is explicitly irrevocable. They can change the license to a proprietary one but this does not affect existing copies under AGPL.

Last I'd like to touch on "antithetical values". If Mastodon were to discriminate against persons, groups or fields of endeavor in their license they would no longer meet the definition of open source, but rather become a source available proprietary product.

I can't help but feel like Bitcoin came full circle. They went from replacing to embracing the broken, corrupt traditional finance system.

The fact that the Bitcoin community is loving this with no pushback just shows that everyone who actually cares about the goal of cryptocurrency rather than profit in fiat has moved on to XMR or BCH.

Steam is pretty DRM free. Games have Steam integration which checks if your account owns the game, but they don't attempt to prevent tampering like true DRM does. If Steam were to disappear you could easily un-steam your games.

GOG also bans third party DRM software. It's great, but big publishers don't like that which is why GOG is mostly indie.

Alternative frontends like Nitter[1] should hopefully continue to work. They could always scrape as an authenticated user if that becomes necessary.

[1] https://nitter.net/

They should just target ads to the webpage it's shown on rather than the user.