Meanings
- A file-hosting and storage service for users to upload and share videos, music, software, and other content for others to use.
A way around the lock-up problem of smbfs is to use sharity.
2001, Mike McCune, Integrating Linux and Windows, →ISBN, page 1462 more examples
But with the advent of sharity that's shifted to: 'I've just got hold of something no one else has got, so I'm immediately going to make it available to EVERYBODY.'
2011, Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past, →ISBNAccording to Eric Lumbleau, creator of the music blog Mutant Sounds, the motivation behind sharity is a form of "self-aggrandizing altruism...blog authors anointing themselves as gurus and presiding over their own little kingdom of cool."
2015, Allan J. Kimmel, People and Products: Consumer Behavior and Product Design, →ISBN
Origin
Originally a brand name for a product, possibly a Blend of share + charity + rarity.
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