Excrubulent @ Excrubulent @slrpnk.net

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Honestly youtube barely has it currently. The vast majority of creators make very little on the platform and rely largely on supporter donations, merch and sponsorships, which could work on any platform.

By squeezing creators out of every penny they can, youtube has forced people to find other options abd made themselves less and less relevant. I guess that's enshittification for you.

You can also gate access to certain videos on peertube, so a nebula-like model might also work eventually.

I have not but that does sound good. Although I'm thinking something a lot more grounded and realistic, like ARMA style maybe.

Oh my god we need John Brown simulator. Old western setting, open world, muskets, horses and hand-drawn maps, tracking down slavers and stalking them across the prairie and conducting raids on their properties.

"Nazi" x5

There's all the explanation you need.

Because a guy can only sell you a blackboard one time, and you can get chalk anywhere. When it's online, some tech company can sell you their Menu-as-a-Service every month.

Why would a restaurant pay for that? Look elsewhere in this thread for the story of the boss that thinks QR codes are magic spells or something.

I can't wait for peertube to take off. I think of all of the social medias, youtube has the most enduring monopoly, because hosting is such a huge barrier it's got even more of a natural monopoly than regular social media.

I think once peertube can start ascending that might be the ballgame for decentralised social media in general.

That's great, that means you have an answer to your own question. I'm not trying to be snarky here, but that is literally the answer to what to do about Trump, even though his influence seems global and yours seems tiny, it's the only way we can actually combat fascism.

The thing that stops despots long term is the fact that the mass of people on the ground do not bow to them, and they can never find and stop us all.

But you then need to unlearn a lifetime and career of pattern recognition.

I think this is honestly how Trump gets people who haven't learned critical thinking. It's all vibes and insinuation, so it sucks you into finishing his thoughts for him. And you think, "well actually that sounds reasonable", because of course it does, because it sounds like you.

It exploits your natural impulse to meet the other person halfway and do the work for them. But Trump isn't trying at all, he's just doing pure word-association, and he's not your friend. I think anyone who's prone to unhealthy parasocial bonding is especially vulnerable to it.

I remember hearing his speeches when he was first coming to power and realising how seductive that pull was. I was constantly having to slap my own hand away from taking charge of where the sentences were going, and really pay attention to what he was actually saying, and it was always nonsense with a healthy dose of hatred, but usually couched in language that sounded vaguely personable, like, "Hey, we're all friends here, you get it, what I'm saying, right?"

If you already agreed with him, it would be easy.

Not just a grace period, but opening the sub selection menu, I can no longer just close it and return to the view I already had. That view can stick around indefinitely if you enter a post and then back out of it, the posts you had before will remain. There will be no refresh. But when you press back one more time and open that menu, the only way back to the home feed is to select it, which will refresh it. The app has the ability to not refresh, but not in that very specific circumstance. Like literally just a button to close the menu would do the trick I think.

But thanks for the information. This one issue has made me consider switching several times.

Jesus that's shady. "Excuse me I just decided to call you again where there's no record and tell you to delete the record of our call."

"Why not correct the record in written form? You can email back can't you?"

Like what do you say to that? Wow.

Idk what an open world is for if not the alligator-building-blimp strat.

I think the last two games I bought at some high premium launch price were GTAV and Cyberpunk 2077.

That second one still stings. I played it longer than I should've probably because of the price, and I've not bothered with the DLC, even though people said it fixed the game. The price just left a bad taste in my mouth.

Every single time I swear it's because the person doesn't want a written record and has figured out that they're more likely to get what they want if they can bullshit you to your face, when it's harder to parse out all the bullshit in person.

It's a favoured strategy of rental agents for this reason.

Hey, question about Voyager, I'm using it, and if I'm on my main feed and hit the back button, it opens a list of subs, and there seems to be nothing I can do to get back to the feed without refreshing it. It's veru frustrating because I keep losing track of the post I was just about to tap on. Do you know anything about this?

Businesses I understand because that involves listening to your tech guy and approving time for it, and businesses hate spending money, even if it wouldn't really cost them that much in practice. They have a lot of institutional inertia.

I can't help but feel like this joke image is almost redundant now that we have this:

Like, when the reality is even more on the nose than the satire we used to make of it... it's almost nostalgic to remember when we had to join the dots to show that he was a nazi.

The smaller alternatives will get bigger as the mainstream social media gets worse and worse. The job for us, in whatever way we can, is to build the alternatives and make them ready to handle the influx, and make them welcoming to new people.

Honestly, if you're going to do both, do bluesky and mastodon. Bluesky isn't properly decentralised the way mastodon is, but a lot of influential people are there. Also it's way better than twitter was.

It's so strange that that doesn't cause them to consider what side of the conflict they'd be on if that happened. "Oh you're the people that were causing all the war I had to come down to stop? And you think we're chill?"

You need to have a plan that doesn't involve the ballot box.

This is - not as a coy bit, but for real - not a call to violence. You need to figure out how to build where you are right now, and stop asking for permission from a structure that is designed to oppress you. If you're not sure where to start, Food Not Bombs is a solid first place to inquire.