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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like a similar condition I had learning Spanish. In enough, I’d say “It’s hot”. In Spanish, that’s “Hace calor”, which translated literally means “makes heat”. And it was strange to me because I wanted to know what was meant to be making this heat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this is why lemmy will never beat corporate owned services

  Which famously, never shut down and take their content with them :P

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You create the community on another instance. You update the lemm.ee version with a sticky post and sidebar edit to let people know the new location. Do that before lemm.ee closes down, and even people that find the lemm.ee version of the group after the instance is gone will still be able to find your new location

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Migrating communities in the wake of the lemm.ee shutdown⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the managed communities will pin posts and update their descriptions before the shut down happens, and those details will federate to every instance with users that subscribe to the communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you need to be an activist? Absolutely not. You have a chance to live on your own terms in a world that made that really hard. You don’t owe it anything.

  That being said… Visibility makes a huge difference, and it’s super important that some vulnerable folk are visible and loud. But remember, they’re the ones putting themselves on the line, so that in the future, it won’t be as bad for those that follow, and that needs to be respected.

  For me, being trans was always just a medical issue

  This isn’t helpful. Whether you see it that way or not, being trans is not “just a medical issue”. The fact that you were able to live your life as if it were, gives you a position of relative privilege that most trans people don’t share. The truth is, if you get publicly outed one day, it won’t just be a medical issue for you either. So whilst you don’t have to be an activist, you shouldn’t be downplaying the reality that other trans folk do have to face, and honestly, you shouldn’t be pretending to yourself that you are immune to them either.

  Live your life on your own terms, and do so without guilt. But even if it’s just in the privacy of your own thoughts, make sure you build your visible peers up rather than mentally separating yourself from them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people don’t start making videos to make money. In the early Tube days there was no money.

  Absolutely. I’m one of them. But there’s a lot of peertube instances that serve that need.

  The OP was talking about creating a moderated instance, with high production quality requirements for members, with the possibility of charging for extra upload capacity etc. And that narrows the field down to people who either make their living from producing video content, or want to make their living from producing video content. That’s the group I was talking about

  PeerTube only has 1 less avenue for monetization than YT, among dozens.

  Absolutely, but the one its missing is a major source of income for most professionals and semi professionals who make their living from video content. And folk who rely on YouTube advertising aren’t just going to be able to drop YouTube for Peertube whilst keeping a consistent income stream. Which means the OP (and the OP specifically, not peertube in general) will need to make space for allowing those users to exist in a way that encourages them to move to Peertube, without cutting off the income they currently make from centralised corporate platforms.

  My partner and I run a peertube instance out of our own pockets, and we make videos and host other folk making videos, without caring about their quality or experience. For us, it’s about giving folk voices. But I wasn’t talking about peertube in general, or folk like myself, I was addressing the OPs situation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At the moment, its challenging for creators to generate income from Peertube. In theory, the avenue they have is through patreons and the like, but in practice, peertube doesn’t yet have the volume of users to make that work. And as a result, it’s going to be hard to use any kind of “premium/paid” tier service, simply because there won’t be many takers.

  In my mind, right now, if you’re trying to attract creators, you’re going to need to reduce as many barriers as you can for them to move over. That may mean co-existing accounts on bigtech platforms and on peertube, and in terms of helping with your running costs, voluntary donations are the best way of doing it for now, until peertube gets a larger volume of users.

  Either way, we spun up our own peertube instance a few weeks ago too, so welcome to the vidiverse :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peersuite p2p encrypted discord alternative⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you! I’ll be watching with great interest! Lots of potential :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peersuite p2p encrypted discord alternative⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A couple of questions. If I was trying to keep a consistent workspace to build a community around, would it be persistent after the host logs off, and are their tools to protect it from trolls etc who discover it a workspace?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It does voice via Jitsi matrix.org/…/running-your-own-secure-communicatio…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you want to talk about transphobia, racism, LGBTQ rights etc, etc, in which case, you live on the edge constantly wondering when YT is going to demonetize you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Peertube and pixelfed have that built in to the individual instances. It is something I’d like to see more widespread

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most platforms have their “join lemmy” or “join Mastodon” equivalents already

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gateways that ease the pain of entrance to the fediverse are a good thing. A single, centralised gateway that defacto controls all access to the fediverse is exactly what I’m trying to get away from

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From my perspective, that’s not something I’d use, or at least, it wouldn’t have been much use to me when I was a young closeted queer person in small town Australia. It wouln’t have been much help finding my peers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats the best way to deep dive into learning a language without apps?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Comprehensible input! Start with simple content in that language you’re trying to learn, without any use of languages you understand. And then try and actively understand what you’re hearing, and work out how it all fits together!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is all an interesting hypothetical to you. To me, it’s my lived life. Trust me, I’ve done what you’re talking about. I was active in /r/changemyview, and I’ve spent a lot of time having this discussion with people on social media.

  And in that time, not a single person has changed their perspective or view on the topic. Because they already had a view, and despite the ostensible goal of the sub, they’re largely not open to changing their view. They may want to, but they’re not actually willing to change it. Because ultimately, people arrived at their “concerns” through emotional manipulation, and that can’t be undone by “rational discussion”. Like sure, maybe you’re the single exception, and in my 5+ years of having this discussion, you might be the first to genuinely change your opinion. But even then, after 5 years of normalising the idea that my rights are up for discussion, as if it’s actually ok for people to want them removed because of their “concerns”, I’d have a single changed mind in 5 years.

  But you know what else I’ve done in those 5 years? I’ve told every other person that I’ve had this discussion with that it’s actually ok to debate my rights, that whether or not I deserve rights is based on how well I can debate and argue. And I’ve given the bigots driving this whole discussion exactly what they wanted, which is to make myself a target.

  Fuck that.

  So what does it say about me? It says I’ve got more lived experience in navigating this topic than you ever will, and I’m no longer willing to see “civil discussion” on the erasure of peoples rights, in the pointless hope that it will actually help us. Because it doesn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That argument would be torn apart pretty easily

  Sure. The argument can be torn apart. But that doesn’t change anything. What changes when you make those sorts of arguments is simply that it gives a green light to pushing back against marginalised people.

  If argument being torn apart was enough, the argument against trans folk in sport wouldn’t even be an argument. But it is, because there is a political interest in creating harmful narratives about trans folk, and using exclusion from sport as a wedge to normalise exclusion in other areas. Which is exactly what is happening.

  So if you’re ok with that sort of question, I think you need to spend a bit more time looking at the context those questions exist in. Why is it now that people want to suddenly talk about trans people in sports. It’s not because the trans folk have been doing anything different. It’s because there is an explicit motivation to create a culture war, with trans folk as the targets. You shouldn’t be ok with being part of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not asking you to argue about it. I explicitly don’t want people arguing about it, which I was hoping my previous comment would make clear.

  There are people out there that were raised a certain way that want to change or perhaps have questions due to ignorance on the topic. By being combative, you’re doing more harm than good for something you clearly care about.

  If someone turns against all trans people because they encounter a single angry trans person, then they were just looking for an excuse to justify what they already felt.

  And it’s not my job to play nice with the people trying to erase my rights in the hope that maybe, just maybe, they’ll stop what they’re doing! That doesn’t work. That has never worked. Every single civil right gain has been made by pushing back.

  So thanks for the advice, but I’ll keep pushing back

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So, you’d like to argue for the validity of excluding a vulnerable group, in the middle of a world spanning hate campaign against that exact group?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So, you’d be ok with someone arguing that maybe a discussion about racism is warranted, because sometimes, a bit of racism is warranted?

  Or is that only ok when it’s trans people?

  'cause if you want logical and consistent, that’s something you need to ask yourself. Why is it that folk are quite willing to discuss the erasure of rights of just one class of people, when it’s not something you’d even consider talking about with most other groups?

  There is no consistency in that desire, it’s not driven by a desire to be logically consistent. This is driven by political interests and think tanks trying to create social divide. It’s not a co-incidence that you just want to consider the logical merits or trans folk, right now, at this moment in history.

  Until you’re willing to face the reasons behind that, and the impact your social context has on you, you can’t be logically consistent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you want changed then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, if you come in expecting to debate for the removal of trans rights, you won’t last long

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Put it behind a reverse proxy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I haven’t noticed that. The non technically literate folk I know use smart TVs, or can download Jellyfin from an app store. Then they just use the URL when the app asks for it.

  There’s no other configuring to do on their end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as the technical person does all of the setup on their end, the non technical person only has to enter a domain and port in their jellyfin client.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A load of mastodon users think groups are just autoboost accounts.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because from a mastodon perspective, that’s what they are!

  They’re basically the same thing as gup.pe groups to them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is my community modding everyone who comments?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You are the only moderator of both communities you moderate, so it sounds like a display bug

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do British people say "brr" when they're cold? If so, how do they pronounce the R?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m Australian. I say something closer to “buh”, but I introduce vibrato to the sound down near my vocal cords, rather than by trilling the R in my mouth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Endurain is a self-hosted fitness tracking service designed to give users full control over their data and hosting environment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it federated/does it have social elements?