i mean, yeah it’s basically the amount of work of a semester long course in making everything from windows work in linux

The same reason parallel parking is done backing in.

You’re literally the only one talking about buying it, and it’s not YOUR software, it belongs to Microsoft. Your boss just rents it and makes a profit having you work on it.

I just do whatever’s easiest – just signing up for some of these services takes way too long to watch one 2 hour program. The money’s not an issue at all in my mind, im happy to pay $70 for baldurs gate 3 with a dedicated download server and installation package. But im not willing to spend half an hour downloading and installing some streaming service.

Yeah dude, just make a new account. If you’re attached to your account the govts use that against.

I guess the problem from an idealistic standpoint is fine, let them sue. Hosting an instance is not about being profitable. Do what you need to do as far as shell corporation and all that to protect your personal finances, or just close the instance instead of censoring. The community is just people who will find another instance, it’s not empowering to treat people like they will fall apart if you don’t submit to hegemony.

Now, it’s just an instance that is perpetuating unfair systems of power, instance of helping to democratize the internet.