Some French motherfucker in 1998-2006 catalogued and converted the whole corpus of The Cantigas de Santa Maria to MIDI. These songs are one of the only large collections we have of medieval European music pre-polyphony (i.e. there are no harmonies beyond a drone) and now they’re available for anyone’s silly computer to render in basic waveforms across the world.
You can literally take this shit and render it in the Fire Emblem 8 or Pokemon or whatever soundfont and it rules.
the internet is a huge equalizer and allows anyone to share ideas. It has huge potential for class conciousness and radicalization, which is why the government and oligarchs have been dead set on controlling it and killing off anything outside of their walled gardens. Its why elon musk purchased twitter and continues funneling money into it at large expense. this forum (and lemmy as a concept) is a huge form of resistance against these forces.
They will not succeed. Twitter got a lot less appealing after Musk bought it. Whenever the internet is used as a weapon by capitalists it backfires and renders the internet less useful than before to the capitalist. Frictionless communication finds its equilibrium outside of private property and outside of capitalist ideology.
We should also view the fediverse as a battlefield / struggle over terrain between liberals/capitalists and communists. It has at least the possibility to turn the english-language part of the internet into a proletarian rather than capitalist-controlled space, and we should not give them an inch.