Basically, an RSS feed is a link that gets updated when there's an update to a website (here's an example from my medium page). Anytime I post something, it gets updated.
An RSS feed reader is an app that you can use to list out which websites you're interested in, and pulls up any new articles that get published.
Most RSS feed readers would be able to find that hidden link for you (you'd just have to give it the normal youtube page link). This is how I "subscribe" to things, I just have one central app where I get updates on everything I'm interested in following (blogs, news, videos, etc).
If a youtuber has both an Odyssey and a Youtube channel with the same content, I subscribe to the RSS feed from Odyssey.
If a youtuber I'm interested in mirrors their videos somewhere else, I'll subscribe to that source via RSS. But that's just to divert traffic from YouTube, not because I have a preference either way regarding community interactions (I never read comments on videos).
If I want a genuine human opinion on a topic, I add "site:reddit.com" to the search. Hopefully someday there will be a good way to parse the fediverse for info.
Sure, it's a one-party state, but it's a communist one-party state
Wasn't communism supposed to be a classless, stateless, and moneyless society?
people's needs are generally met
Except if you're a political dissident or a Uyghur.
You also seem to overlook the massive state surveillance apparatus. The NSA and FBI are probably jealous of how far reaching some of the Chinese systems are.
China is essentially an autocratic state-capitalist country, with some communist aesthetics.
But then again, your comment is nothing I wouldn't expect from someone from hexbear.
A lot of people thought this was the case for VMs and docker as well, and now it seems to be the norm.
Yes, but docker does provide features that are useful at the level of a hobbyist self-hosting a few services for personal use (e.g. reproducibility).
I like using docker and ansible to set up my systems, as I can painlessly reproduce everything or migrate to a different VPS in a few minutes.
But kubernetes seems overkill. None of my services have enough traffic to justify replicas, I'm the only user.
Besides learning (which is a valid reason), I don't see why one would bother setting it up at home. Unless there's a very specific use-case I'm missing.
That is really out there!
Probably not going to use it (since I'm already too used to normal keyboards), but props to the devs for developing something different.