benx<p>Wanna ramble a little bit about the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeIdeas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeIdeas</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StealMyIdeas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StealMyIdeas</span></a> hashtags I have been using over the years. </p><p>There IS actually a fundamentally political idea behind why I use these hashtags. I'm not just using these as a joke or a meme.</p><p>I've been using these hashtags to share my ideas because I am the type of person who comes up with ideas all the time, that I think are amazing (at the time at least). But because I have so many ideas, it's kinda impossible for me to make them all actually happen.</p><p>I used to not be so open about sharing all the ideas I have. I would write them down in little notebooks, in the hopes that I could use them as part of some sort of commodity one day.</p><p>At one point I did have plan to try and make a career out of being a musician, for example.</p><p>My attempt at a music career happened to coincide with the peak usage of online piracy, however.</p><p>I wasn't against online piracy, though. My teenage years had been spent engaging in a lot of online piracy and I was fond of continuing that hobby.</p><p>And so, instead of rejecting online piracy, as a musician, I fell inline with the anti-copyright <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeCulture</span></a> movement that was emerging.</p><p>The Free Culture movement rejected copyright controls as they currently stood and led to musicians and other artists seeking out different ways of funding their passion projects. </p><p>As a result, the Creative Commons license was created, to allow for the restrictions of copyright protections to be loosened more.</p><p>And also, platforms like Patreon and Bandcamp were founded, creating places for artists to share their works for free directly, while still having a method of collecting income to help support themselves and their work.</p><p>And so, it is in the spirit of this <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeCulture</span></a> movement, that I use these hashtags <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeIdeas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeIdeas</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StealMyIdeas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StealMyIdeas</span></a> </p><p>It would be cool if, one day, these hashtags took off and other people started using them.</p><p>I have no idea how I would make that happen though. 🤷</p>