hendrik

Yeah, information wants to be free. I’d say we just do away with copyright /s

Or I could try training AI as well once this is settled. Of course I’d need to get a few big harddrives to store a few books, audiobooks, music, Netflix series… Or is this just a perk for big and greedy companies?

Is this a new thing? I thought that’s how companies like Google and Meta operate for the last 10 years or so, minus a few poor people in underprivileged countries who have to sort the really bad stuff…

Seems they’re introducing lots of errors lately… First Pixelfed, now entire Linux…

Last time I checked, yunohost.org worked well. It either has the services you’re interested in, or it doesn’t… But it’s really easy to get it running. Docker containers also usually work well. Though, you need some amount of technical knowledge. And I’d recommend to use something like docker-compose and not do everything manually… If you’re a beginner, maybe just try YunoHost.

I’ve had the file system permissions wrong and that lead to all kinds of unrelated issues. But yeah the number of users and incoming posts are supposed to not increase unless you subscribe to users. Just adding instance URLs doesn’t do anything. And it seems to federate new posts only, not the entire history of a user.

Stupid article never even links the source. I believe this is it: https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2025/01/28/0083/01166.html#ing

I don’t think it’s quite end stage yet. There is still some room left to become worse. Some freedoms left and some money in the pockets of regular people.

It’s nice to see. I’d compare it to back when Lemmy was in the same situation and tens of thousands of users came from Reddit to Lemmy over night.

Wow. I did not expect to see the current amount of boot licking by big tech and practically all of the tech-bros. This can’t be good. They certainly expect to get something in return from the current administration. Likely some dystopian end-stage capitalism?!

Hmmh. I believe the main reason why we don’t have them is that the main developers didn’t like gamification. So they skipped all of that. And they don’t view this platform as a 1:1 clone of Reddit. And I mean ultimately all these awards and similar concepts on Discord etc are meant to make the users spend money. Other things are made to get people hooked, because they can brag with karma, awards etc and they’ll spend more time on the platform. That’s all good if you’re trying to make lots of money, but not necessarily healthy for the users or the atmosphere on the platform. But it’s complicated. Not everything is bad, either.

I’d like emoji reactions for example. That’d be practically the same thing… You could - instead of just up-/downvote, add a picture reaction to a comment or post - could be a medal or whatever. Some other Fediverse platforms have that kind of stuff.

(And btw: Lots of people here also donate time to moderate, foster communities, write program code, donate to the project, or are just particularly nice to people, so it needs to factor in lots of other things as well, next to money donations to the instance admins.)

You can put an emoji into your username. Or inside of a comment…

I guess you’re right. Reportedly, ad revenue is getting worse all the time. I’ve tried finding some recent numbers from some channel but seems very few of them make their income transparent. I know one or two, but they don’t do sponsoring in the usual way… But I guess it’s true and lots of channels rely on sponsorships and Patreon these days. From what I read. That would certainly make it easier to switch to a platform that doesn’t have ads in the first place. I kind of missed that. That’d mean it’s down to the network effect. But I’d like to see some exact numbers. Ultimately, we’d need to cater for a lot of different creators, from Mark Rober to Kurzgesagt to someone doing it for fun. And ad revenue would have to be really bad, because lots of the popular and big youtubers earn their livelihood on the video platform. And even a paycut of like 20% might be unacceptable to them…

I think this is a really good point. If we now get the Fediverse bigger, and regular people start to have accounts on federated and interconnected platforms, we’d be okay without advertisements and invading privacy, if that’s not the predominant business model anyway.

Sure. I just think at that point it’s no longer a “alternative to YouTube” since YT works a certain way and this changes quite a lot about the dynamics. It’d be more an alternative to something else, just not YouTube.

Yeah, I don’t think so either. For lots of creators, YouTube is about earning money with ad revenue with their videos. And the audience comes to watch their videos. So unless we introduce lots of ads to PeerTube and pay the creators, it won’t become an alternative to Youtube (in specific).

I think Peertube will stay it’s own thing and not become a clone of Youtube. And as such it’ll always target a different audience and have different content available. So it can’t really become an “alternative”.

Ah, I came here to ask that question… If this is finally the version with log-in… It isn’t.

We have to be patient then. They’ve promised to add it. And Framasoft usually follows up on their promises. But looking at the commit log on the project page, they dont seem to be actively working on the Android app. It’s mostly noise, translations and dependency updates there. Nothing that’d indicate someone is working on adding features. So it could take some time.

But you’re not the only person waiting for this to be added.

Out of curiosity: What kind of decentralized storage has been used before?

I hope that’s going to succeed. And those are the platforms in demand. While Mastodon is losing users, and we’ve been stagnating for quite some time already… Pixelfed is currently going off the charts. We’ll have to see where this leads to and if it’s going to last.

I think it’s mainly the content. We need some good content, creative people and interesting videos on the platform. Yeah and maybe discoverability. People also need to get those videos displayed/recommended to them. Other than that, a good app is always nice. That’s already been worked on. But regarding the technology, I think Peertube works quite nicely these days. And it has a good amount of features as well.