hendrik @ hendrik @palaver.p3x.de

A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I'm usually a chill

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Right. OP didn't specify it has to be a technical shortcoming... or easy to solve. So I just said what I think is the biggest issue. Because I really think the platform itself, and the software are great. And still constantly improving.

I think this is really difficult to impossible to overcome. Other for-profit platforms have failed at this. Even the big players like Youtube, TikTok etc needed a huge pile of money, investors and an unethical business model to succeed. And I'm pretty sure we don't want that with PeerTube.

I think what we currectly, realistically can do is have a few big content creators do it for fun. And host their stuff on PeerTube. But that needs some other motivation than making money.

Ultimately, the majority of the worth or value of a platform like this isn't in the program code. But in the content and userbase. And I think that's where the focus needs to be when we want to grow or improve it for the potential users.

It's an easy excuse for pretty much anything. Most likely an excuse to be lazy, because that's where it comforts someone... Doesn't mean it has to be untrue... Just that it's easy to use it as an excuse for the wrong things.

But I bet you interact with the world and have an effect on what happens. You could for example keep notes and then not forget about things. Or influence something so it's likely to turn out more positive?!

I think it's mainly the content. We need some good content, creative people and interesting videos on the platform. Yeah and maybe discoverability. People also need to get those videos displayed/recommended to them. Other than that, a good app is always nice. That's already been worked on. But regarding the technology, I think Peertube works quite nicely these days. And it has a good amount of features as well.

Maybe user error, then? Could be someone having a misconfigured home network. Or computer/phone with a broken or littered browser? If it's the location, that's probably due to some networking/peering/DNS issues, or I'm just not around when it's evening in the USA and usage and stress on the servers pike. Did someome destroy yet another underseas cable? Or did the current US administration mess with the internet some more?

Edit: By the way: now it takes my computer 1.1s to fetch the site. And another 0.5s for the JavaScript. And the images trickle in some time after that.

Nice article 😆 And I wonder if it's going to stay that way. Or if it's like a new invention which is still missing a (good) application. I have some other good use-case which are missing in the list and that's image classification and description, speech to text and text to speech. And machine translation. I think that's massively useful. But as pointed out in the article, generative AI does lots of things which harm people and society. I mean the promise is that it's going to get better and stop lying so much, so we can have some proper applications as well. But that's not a thing yet. And personally - I'm still waiting for AI to merge with robotics and do real hands-on work. Which could be very helpful in some professions. Or lead to a more dystopian future.

And I believe all the accelleration of everything, spreading misinformation and making it super cheap and easy to manipulate and spam, is here to stay. That's something we need to deal with, and it's not easy or straightforward. If I were a tech bro, I'd advertise my AI solution to deal with the issues that arise with AI 😅

Loads in a fraction of a second here...

Uuh, I don't have any good instances to recommend. But my advice is to skip the politics and news communities. I mean it's difficult these days anyways. But also here on Lemmy, they're not very good.

And try the other Fediverse platforms as well, like Pixelfed, Mastodon... Maybe they're appreciated. And they all gave a different atmosphere and feel to them.

Idk man. I think we (you) are doing everyone a disservice if we don't use any of the features Lemmy offers, and just post everything to AskLemmy. Disregarding if it's intimacy, Linux questions, tech support... IMO this community is for casual talk. And I like that Lemmy offers me the ability to tailor my feed to my interests. It just doesn't work if people don't honor that and use it as one big spam board and set none of the communities or checkboxes correctly.

You need to be a bit more patient. It's happening. Lots of people are leaving Twitter/X. But it takes time.

Go to !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com and ask there.

And please use the NSFW checkbox to flag your vibrator related questions as not safe for work.

Seems the trend continued in the days after you posted this graph.

I'd like to point out that a similar thing happened to Lemmy back when the Reddit exodus happened. We have to keep in mind that growth might happen suddenly. But it doesn't necessarily continue indefinitely. And a large chunk of users are likely not to stay. But with this said, it's a good thing. We need independent platforms. Now more than ever.

I'd say it's about time for the Age of Enlightenment to begin. For us to do liberty, progress, tolerance, use science and technology to our advantage. Invest in education. Maybe overturn the monarchs and billionaires.

Depends on country, if you're a company or doing it for profit and if you do additional stuff like sending emails.

If you're doing it for fun and are in the USA, you don't need to do anything.

If you're a company you should add the fine print. Add copyright notices, trademark claims, terms and conditions, disclaimers...

If you're sending out newsletters you need to make sure people can unsubscribe.

If you're in the EU you might need a whole imprint, privacy policy, handle user data properly...

Knaller, ja so sollte es sein. Dann wünsche ich ihr, dass sie irgendwie ihr Glück im Leben findet. Irgendwie muss man das ja selber machen. Und wenn ich mich daran zurückerinnere, wie ich mit 17 war... Naja, sicherlich habe ich mir da eingebildet sehr viel mehr über das Leben zu wissen, als ich tatsächlich wusste.

Ich hab mal eine Flexikon Podcast Folge über das Thema gehört. Also das ist sicherlich nicht leicht, wenn einer mehr als doppelt so alt ist. Man hat unterschiedliche Interessen, ist in unterschiedlichen Lebenssituationen, es gibt Gefälle in der Beziehung... Und gesellschaftlich ist man damit auch nicht akzeptiert. Also wenn es nicht sowieso eine vorübergehende Phase ist, ist es bestimmt nicht leicht. Aber das sind Beziehungen und Partnerschaft ohnehin nicht...

Ja gut, das geht auch. Denke was ich sagen wollte ist: Dann passiert es halt hinter deinem Rücken. Also ich kenne keine der Beteiligten hier... Aber vielleicht sagst du deiner Tochter noch einmal sehr unmissverständlich, dass du für sie da bist. Also falls du das leisten kannst/willst. Ich weiß halt nicht ob man sich nach so einer Absprache traut etwaige Probleme auf den Tisch zu bringen. Und die Spekulation ist ja, dass die Situation zu Problemen führen wird. Da wäre es für deine Tochter vielleicht wichtig zu wissen/fühlen: auch wenn du ihn nicht da haben möchtest, dass sie trotzdem mit dir reden soll, wenn etwas ist.

Naja, pauschale Ablehnung bringt aber auch nix. Damit stößt du deiner Tochter nur vor den Kopf. Wie wäre es, wenn du dir den Typen mal selber anschaust und dir ein selbst ein Bild von ihm machst? Also rein des Zweckes wegen? Ich denke das hilft mehr irgendwie darauf einzugehen. Ich kann die Ablehnung aber verstehen. Da keinerlei Bedenken zu haben ist ein wenig dumm.

Sure, it's just a proxy/forwarder. I mean I kind of see your point. But I don't think I agree on the word "usefulness". In practice, for an average person, it has the exact same effect, no matter if you pick an intermediary, caching DNS server, or recursively look it up, starting at the root. It returns the same answer and the same webpage opens. With the one requirement that you need to pick an DNS server which doesn't mess with the results. But that's not a huge issue, there are quite some uncensored DNS servers out there. Like the OpenNIC ones for example.

But I don't want to talk you out of it. Originally, it was frowned upon querying the root DNS servers. Since it puts more strain on them and the very core of the internet. And it's a bit more inefficient for you, since your DNS server needs to store more database information and do more queries from a residential internet connection which might be slower than a server in a datacenter. But a lot has changed since DNS got invented and I think it's probably fine to run a full, recursive DNS server at home these days.

So enjoy your unhindered internet access. For the other people who don't want to run a full DNS server, I can recommend opennic.org And I think it's really a shame that lots of ISPs mess with the DNS results and introduce third-party blocklists. Mine does that, too.

Blocky is another nice AdBlocker and DNS proxy. I've been using it for quite a while. Seems to be pretty efficient, too. If you're looking at community DNS servers, have a look at https://opennic.org/ that's a democratic DNS root.

And by the way, take care not to expose your DNS server to the public internet, or some people will start using it for DNS amplification attacks. But that shouldn't be any concern if you run it on a Raspberry Pi at home.

Linux Mint is quite popular amongst beginners. But the main thing I want to say is: I recommend you to try the KDE desktop if you're used to MS Windows. It has a tray, start menu, icons, scortcuts and everything. And it looks kind of familiar to Windows users.