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This is literally the project I'm working on. I have mine voiced as my husbando Impey Barbicane from Code Realize. Though I'm thinking of training a tts on some youtuber voices that I like.
yeah someone shared that with me just recently. it's really nice since on my laptop I'd always use the twitter emoji picker, or the discord emoji shortcodes (I prefer the latter, honestly). but on kbin and other sites there's no emoji picker or shortcodes so I was kinda stuck lol.
A trademark is a name. The point is to remove ambiguity and confusion when multiple people are selling similar products. Ie to prevent name collision. Once the company or person is dead, there is no longer an issue. Having indefinite trademarks will mean we will eventually run out of names, as every name will eventually be taken over many years. By having them expire upon death, the trademark is freed up for reuse.
Perhaps not have it immediately upon death though. I wouldn't mind, say, a 200 year trademark, for instance. Trademarks aren't preventing culture, they're just clarifying names.
Imagine if one person ever in history could be named "Joe". Naturally during Joe's life it's useful to ensure no one else has his exact name. but after he's been dead for 200 years? Do we really need to make sure no one else ever is named Joe?
Look at the Atari situation. Atari is a company that is long gone and everyone knows it. However, companies are propping themselves up as atari because they own the Atari trademark. In the system of "someone holds their trademark even after death", these new atari companies can't call themselves atari. Is that good? bad? up for debate, but regardless no one is confusing them for the old classic atari (or maybe they are haha).
But atari (the old company) surely isn't being hurt by the confusion.
Then you just have companies transfer ownership of their IPs to some notable figure in the company and transfers away from them when they die/leave. leading to indefinite ownership of copyrights by a company. This is even longer copyright than what we have today.
I think trademarks should be for the life of the company/author. since that's literally their purpose. but copyrights and patents shouldn't last longer than 20 years at most.
Copyright should be abolished entirely. But a reasonable length if it needs to exist is maybe 20 years. Think about stuff from 20 years ago. Movies like the first matrix, or games like the original super mario bros. These are classics, no longer something the creators rely on for profit, yet shape our culture.
Copyright is used to harm culture for the sake of profit. An absurdly long copyright period can only harm society for the sake of shareholder profits. Ideally, things should enter the public domain at some point, and ideally at a time where the cultural impact can be felt. Anyone who disagrees with this should believe that disney is an illegitimate business, as almost all of their IPs are things originally in the public domain.
If copyright as it is today existed back when disney started, we wouldn't have beloved disney classics.
My understanding is your "subscribed" feed shows stuff from people you follow as well as the magazines you're subscribed to. Mastodon users' posts typically end up in the microblog section which can be found here. whereas kbin/lemmy users often posts threads which can be found here. It's mixed in with the magazines you subscribe to. I don't think there's a way to just get the followed users without the magazines you're subscribed to.
boost is "retweet" or "reshare". upvote is 'like'.
The problem is that the two don't have a shared standard. there's @ names but kbin doesn't use them reliably (sometimes they link to user pages) and on lemmy they have ! names which don't work on kbin (unless you have a browser extension). so best we can do right now is one link for lemmy, one for kbin.
op linked it as a /c/ link, which breaks on kbin. on kbin we use /m/.
there's candidates running that support ranked choice voting. why not vote for them?