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- Submitted 2 months ago to houseplants@mander.xyz | 11 comments
- Comment on How come as of today I can't access politics@lemmy.ml from lemmy.world? 3 months ago:
Discussing politics at Lemmy.ml was a mistake to begin with - they're doing us all a favour by nuking it. :)
- Comment on While we're all worried about the future of America, the misogynous racists out there must be dying of stress right now 3 months ago:
This comment is beautiful. Always vote.
Less, beautiful, more wordy:
- Even if you don't manage to flip a seat, your neighbours who feel the same hopelessness as you will look at the results at some point. Your vote will make them know they are not alone. It matters.
- Any change in the right direction is significant, and worth fighting for - voting for it is a no-brainer. The margins might make the difference between people voting or giving up staying at home at the next election.
- They won't you to believe you shouldn't even bother.
- Georgia flipped the Senate seat in '22, for the first time since the 90s. It's possible.
Go vote, folks.
- While we're all worried about the future of America, the misogynous racists out there must be dying of stress right nowkbin.earth ↗Submitted 3 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 22 comments
- Comment on Why does lemmy.ml use the "ML" country code for Mali? 3 months ago:
This is where people mess up when they judge the past in the eyes of the present. Communism in Marx' time had nothing to do with the Soviet Union, Mao or China.
- Comment on PeerTube 6.2 is out! 4 months ago:
In terms of becoming a real competitor of YouTube, this is a huge step. Accessibility is a must.
Amazing news!
- Comment on brewing tea with space vacuum? 4 months ago:
That's a great explanation but a really shitty cup of tea.
- Comment on Why haven't we figured out monetisation for peertube? 4 months ago:
I think monetisation is more important on Peertube than other federated platforms I can think of.
We want people to post high quality videos on PeerTube. The production of high quality video content requires a lot of work and often also a decent chunk of money to produce. It's not like a toot or a post on Pixelfed, which is often not labour intensive at all. A photographer or an artist might very well showcase their work on Pixelfed, or an author their writing on Mastodon, but it would not compete with their business idea as people who are interested would still need to buy prints/high resolution versions/ebooks/subscriptions/whatever.
On PeerTube, it's very different. We want content creators to not only put money and time into creating quality content, but ideally we want them to host the content themselves in order to maintain full control over it. Without monetisation there's just no reason why they would be interested in doing that.
The question of how is of course much more difficult than the why.
Sponsorships is one obvious candidate. In theory this wouldn't require anything extra from Peertube - the producers of videos could easily add their own ads within the videos. However, sponsors are only interested in sponsoring content that has an audience, and the audience is on YouTube. Sponsored content is also potentially bad for obvious reasons.
Donations might make more sense, as they scale better to smaller but dedicated audiences. It is difficult to get people to cross the threshold for making them, but it's not exactly easy to make a profit on YouTube either. Donations good because they encourage quality, rather than ads which tend to favour views over substance.
So finally, traditional ads. We all hate them. They suck, and if they're incorporated they'll probably be blocked anyway. But I'm sure there's a case to be made in their favour - if it's implemented on the instance level, I certainly wouldn't be in a position to criticize. It could be necessary in order to host content on free instances, where people could build a following and then move on to self-hosting or join more restrictive ad-free instances should they get the opportunity to.
Personally I wouldn't be opposed to having a sort of virtual tip jar functionality. I could imagine myself paying $25 into a virtual wallet maintained by Liberapay, and to press a button underneath PeerTube videos to donate $1 to the creator whenever I found something was worthy of kudos. Maybe users with non-empty wallets could be rewarded with extra filters in Sepia search or something like that.
The best answer to why monetisation hasn't been figured out on PeerTube yet is, however, that it hasn't been figured out on the Internet in general. It's just really difficult, and every push towards monetisation tends to be the first step towards any service becoming completely shit. It's a really difficult problem. The Fediverse and PeerTube might solve some problems by being less dependant on monetisation in the first place, but that doesn't automatically make it an easy fix. More than anything we probably need an attitude change.
A good start would be to challenge the culture that makes monetisation so difficult, for example by making a donation to FramaSoft. :)
- Comment on Do other languages have similar acronyms to 'tbh', 'imo', 'smh', etc? 4 months ago:
In Denmark and Norway the "with best regards" acronym is healthy and well, and I doubt it'll disappear any time soon.
Mvh
Aasatru - Comment on For discussing Fediverse accessibility, where would you recommend me to go? Or stay here? 6 months ago:
I think a good approach could be to think about how you could reach users of different platforms.
A lot of Mastodon users follow hashtags, so including relevant hashtags (#accessibility and #blind seem like good starting points) might be a good idea. Tagging groups, such as @accessibility, might also help.
I think Kbin/Mbin might be better suited for this than Lemmy, as it integrates better with other federated networks. You can follow microbloggers and boost content, which in turn makes them likely to follow you back and creates a community beyond which Lemmy community you choose to post in. Your Mastodon followers will see your posts, but it won't matter to them which community you post it in.
It's hard for content to make the jump from Lemmy to Mastodon as Lemmy does not make itself discoverable, but as soon as content reaches Mastodon users nothing stops them from interacting with it (by boosting or replying).
Sadly Kbin.social lacks sufficiently active moderation these days, so you might be better off with an mbin instance. I also have no idea how accessible Mbin is to blind users.
Edit: I over-emphasized the point about reaching a broader audience. If you want to discuss a narrow topic but you don't want most ActivityPub users to see it because you don't value their input, I guess Lemmy is as good as it gets.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 6 months ago:
Well, imagine you meet a guy travelling through the US. He's wearing lederhosen, has a freaking feather in his hat, and speaks with a heavy German accent. You ask where he's from, and he says he's American/Italian, as his maternal grandfather was born in the US and his grandmother on his father's side is Italian. However, this is his first time outside of Germany, and he speaks no Italian and hardly any English.
This is what Americans tend to look like to Europeans.
- Comment on The Trouble with Forking Mastodon 6 months ago:
If anything, this proves that forking Mastodon is a great idea. Not because any useful software would come out of it, but it would distract some of the annoying armchair managers out there.
The biggest problem with Mastodon isn't the lack of feature X or the presence of feature Y; it's those exact assholes, draining the energy and enthusiasm from anything that crosses their path while scaring away anyone looking for a meaningful conversation.
I hate to break it to you, but if you genuinely think you've figured it all out, chances are you're a fucking moron.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 6 months ago:
This. Conservatives tend to themselves be the victims of a failed system, hating them for failing to address it in a useful manner is hardly constructive. I reserve my hatred for billionaires.
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 6 months ago:
Yeah, you're probably right it's worth reading if you want to understand the American right. I just don't think Atlas Shrugged is anywhere near as interesting as Anarchy, State and Utopia from a history of ideas perspective, but that might not be the relevant dimension. :)
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 6 months ago:
There are experts around here.
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 6 months ago:
Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia is a solid philosophical foundation for a lot of right wing thought. If you want to engage further you can follow up with Michael Otsuka's critique in Self-Ownership and Equality: A Lockean Reconciliation.
Nozick provides an underpinning for what many think of as traditional conservative American values, without basing it in Christianity.
Then of course there's the Chicago school of economics (Friedman et al), which is just a somewhat naive and more it less completely discredited take on how the economy works. It's fundamental for understanding American politics the previous half century, but their ideas are not really worth interacting with unless you're particularly interested in economics. It's not like the idiot politicians who push it in front of them understand the theories either.
The theories is not far right; there's no salvaging the far right, and their ideological basis is mostly just bigotry. You could read Ayn Rand to try to understand which hole these idiots crawled from. Or better, don't waste your time.
- Comment on If you or somebody you know ever fell for a romance scam, how did you or the person fall for it? 6 months ago:
I guess technically that's neither romance nor a scam. Still messed up in more ways than one.
- Comment on My bioluminescent petunia 6 months ago:
I think that's mostly food regulations, but I'm not an expert of the field. Might apply more broadly as well.
- Comment on My bioluminescent petunia 6 months ago:
Yeah, just don't set up a competing business and you're fine.
- Comment on Is anyone using PixelFed? How is your experience so far? 6 months ago:
I have posted some pictures I've taken from hikes, and check in now and then when I feel like posting something or looking at pictures.
My experience is very different from what other people here seem to report. I am just posting into the void, I have posted 11 pictures to date, and I never linked the account to anything or told anyone about it. Still I have more than 50 followers, only from people who stumbled over my content and decided to follow. I'm only following half of that number, so it's not a politeness thing.
I've also gotten a few comments, though mostly people just click like and/or boost. It seems every time I post something I gain at least a follower or two.
So overall I'm pretty impressed by PixlFed. If you have something to share it's a good platform to do so. And there's nice landscape photography on there, at least.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
PieFed is also a nice project, though it doesn't do microblogging so it's more of a Lemmy alternative.
I guess the whole point here is that people come from different platforms - I'm not sure it makes too much sense to include the platform in the community name at all. General names like 'AskFedi' or AskAround' would make a lot more sense in my book. I don't really care all that much which software a community is hosted on.
- Comment on Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit 6 months ago:
Also it's a bigger market of lawyers, so probably easier and cheaper to get high quality legal help against bullshit like this.
- Comment on The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse 6 months ago:
I think it is a pretty major issue. A single-user instance shouldn't need more than 100 GB. The internet is too bloated, which is a democratic problem as well as an environmental one.
- Comment on Bluesky backs a project that would let Mastodon apps, like Ivory, work with its network 6 months ago:
They should have been giving their money to Bridgy Fed, which is working to bridge the actual content of social media rather than the app APIs.
Well, actually, I would much rather Bridgy remains independent from Dorsey's blood money. Bluesky should just enable federation on a large scale so that it'll actually be possible to build services around it. Right now they cap federated instances at ten users, which is a complete joke.
