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  • I don’t think it’s entirely fair to say that all money on YouTube comes from ads. IIRC nearly half comes from subscriptions and each Premium watcher is basically worth much more than ad-supported ones. My thinking is similar to yours - creators need to host things themselves and the next step would be creating coops that optimise infrastructure costs and deal with stuff like payment processing for subs. Nebula is one, Floatplane is another but with LTT yuck. We need more, especially non-US based. And people need to sub those too.


  • misk@sopuli.xyztoFediverse@lemmy.worldIs there any actual good content on PeerTube?
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    17 days ago

    In all honesty I don’t understand how PeerTube is supposed to scale with users once it gets content. Hosting, transcoding and streaming video is super expensive. There’s also a matter of making money from videos and without financial incentive it’ll be hard to compete with commercial solutions (in a capitalist hellholes that most of us live in). Community funding can keep up with hosting text but can barely keep up with hosting pictures, let alone something more, unless you’re an internet archive or something.

    People who are on Nebula already made it in Youtube and they’re so big that they just want to make more money. They provide nice service for the money but I don’t think they will come support your revolution for free.



  • I had a misfortune of posting this piece of news to technology community on Lemmy.world and my inbox is hammered with replies from accounts created on the same day - they do not instil me with confidence. Plenty of people brag that they got banned for calls for political assassinations.

    Reddit people are too incompetent to be truly evil like Meta is. I’m sure they’re mostly concerned about remaining profitable hence some cautious moves to monetise porn subreddits over the last 2 years.






  • misk@sopuli.xyztoFediverse@lemmy.worldReddit tracking upvotes for mod actions
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    26 days ago

    What Reddit believes to be bad content is often calls for violence or homophobia too. What they’re trying to fix now is that subreddits could be easily taken over by a brigade that could change the culture of the place very quickly and mods are powerless to stop it because it’s a whack-a-mole when votes are not public. That’s how Polish national subreddit went to utter shite for example, despite being one of the most libleft-leaning places back in the day. The damage was irreversible unfortunately.


  • misk@sopuli.xyztoFediverse@lemmy.worldReddit tracking upvotes for mod actions
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    26 days ago

    I’m not sure about your impressions from this wave of Reddit refugees but I think we’re getting worst of the worst right now because the rule that Reddit is applying makes sense, despite Reddit being shit overall. Reddit upvotes aren’t public which makes people behave like a mob and now that they’re being punished for promoting rule-breaking content these people want a new outlet. Did anyone tell them Lemmy votes are public like everything else on ActivityPub?




  • misk@sopuli.xyztoFediverse@lemmy.worldLemmy vs Mbin vs PieFed
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    2 months ago

    On Voyager (third-party mobile app), I have more tools than I do on desktop, which indicates to me that the tools are there in the API but just aren’t exposed on desktop for some god-forsaken reason.

    Apollo was also better at moderating Reddit than whatever Reddit could put out so you could say Voyager goes above and beyond at cloning Apollo.



  • misk@sopuli.xyztoFediverse@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 months ago

    This is not BlueSky-style, it’s Activity Pub style.

    I can browse a Lemmy community from Mastodon and see it in a very different way. Yes, I could sort by activity but then I’d have to keep a separate Lemmy account for those low traffic communities. In Mastodon I can make a list of groups and see only last two replies per thread effectively. Votes are irrelevant and Mastodon has that covered by not implementing that at all.

    We don’t have any control over how others will view whatever communication or interactions are being sent over AP. That also means one is free to reinterpret it in whatever way they see fit.