chromodynamic
@chromodynamic@piefed.social
- Submitted 5 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on So GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games. 5 days ago:
If you want to message them about it, now is the time most likely to work.
- Comment on As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution 1 week ago:
I've often felt that the web should work more like Git, so you can keep the content locally and just pull updates when you need.
- Comment on I love Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
You can view and post in channels on other instances from your home instance without switching. For example, I'm commenting from piefed.social
- Comment on JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) - Jono Alderson 2 weeks ago:
Client-side scripting is a hack. HTML didn't have all the tags people wanted or needed, so instead of carefully updating it to include new features, they demanded that browsers just execute arbitrary code on the user's computer, and with that comes security vulnerabilities, excessive bandwidth use and a barrier-to-entry that makes it difficult to develop new browsers, giving one company a near-monopoly.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Quite the opposite in fact. Microtransactions offer the promise of fun, but never deliver, because in order to incentivise users to purchase them, the player must feel like the game is 90% of the way to being fun and that tiny additional purchase will get it there.
It's like the cartoon image of the donkey rider holding a carrot on the end of a rod. The donkey keeps moving to try to get the carrot, but never quite reaches it.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
Besides the trackers and malware, ads can be categorised as a flaw in technology. A kind of software parasite that uses a computer's resources without providing any additional functionality to the user.
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 3 weeks ago:
Some good points I hadn't considered!
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 3 weeks ago:
Got me thinking about how YouTubers get money. According to a quick web search, YT pays $0.01 to $0.03 per view. So if you release 10 videos a month, you made $0.10 per viewer. But Patreon memberships are typically around $5.00 a month, equivalent to $0.50 per view in the same scenario. Of course Patreon will take a cut, but it is still a lot more money.
So, if a lot of your viewers think your channel is good enough to donate to, ad money basically becomes an afterthought. In this case, the only advantage of YT over PT is discovery, i.e. the number of viewers likely to find your videos in the first place (but there's also more competition on YT, so...)