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Kayn
Kayn @ HKayn @dormi.zone
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YSK: When you want to learn the facts on a controversial topic, check Wikipedia

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  • Depends on who's currently winning the fight.

    • YSK: When you want to learn the facts on a controversial topic, check Wikipedia

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  • No, absolutely not.

    For purely scientific articles Wikipedia is great. But anything remotely controversial or even political on that site should be taken with a grain of salt.

    There's too many editors out there who enforce their biases and wage war on such articles.

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  • Where did you get this from?

    • YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users

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  • It's not even that.

    YouTube can do whatever the fuck it wants since it essentially holds a monopoly on video hosting thanks to the network effect.

    • YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users

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  • It's amusing to see how nobody is able to genuinely answer this question.

    • Mastodon vs BlueSky

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  • What if ActivityPub simply couldn't support some of the federation features they implemented, like using a domain as your handle?

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  • For me personally, while Discord doesn't outright state that it sells my data, its monetization model is not as transparent as I'd like.

    I highly doubt that Nitro subscriptions cover all of Discord's expenses.

    • Spotify re-invented the radio

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  • Remember, we're distinguishing between "basically nothing" and "literally nothing".

    Of course the best way to financially support an artist is to buy their merch or buy their music on a store like Bandcamp.

    • Spotify re-invented the radio

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  • Are you actually doing that though?

    • Spotify re-invented the radio

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  • Are you donating to them?

    • Spotify re-invented the radio

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  • Your point?

    • Spotify re-invented the radio

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  • Additionally, when you listen to an artist on Spotify or YT Music, it increases the chance of the app promoting that artist to other users.

    • Spotify re-invented the radio

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  • *with free tools from thankless efforts.

    • Spotify re-invented the radio

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  • Surely you have a better explanation for why Spotify isn't giving you the full service for free.

    • oof

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  • Why is it a shit head company?

    • About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

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  • So far it looks like it's just the internet's usual doomspeak, with a side of anti-Epic circlejerking.

    • About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

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  • Why do you think this is the end?

    • About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

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  • Epic Games has literally done nothing with Bandcamp, what are you talking about?

    • Me Trying To Use The Internet

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  • Well, why are we using those sites?

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  • Since you sound like you're familiar with the topic, what web-based software do you recommend for hosting videos on a VPS?