The whole landscape changes, of course, when Youtube gets put behind a paywall or goes under. This is a when, and not an if situation; video streaming with perpetual archival is not a working business model, and YouTube's never churned out a profit in the 18 years its been online. But twitch and tiktok will likely be where creators move to. I don't see large swaths of people moving to even odysee in the current online climate.
I'd really love if PeerTube could become a standard, but it needs a catalogue of back content, better discoverability, and most of all, to offer financial incentive to move over. As much as I hate to say it, I think something crypto backed like odysee/lbry is more likely to become major.
There's no payout for putting videos on peertube, and there's not enough audience to get sponsorships. If you really want to make peertube a success, that's where it has to start. No amount of technology will make people go from making some money to making none money.
According to their blog post a few days ago, they're looking at federation in H1 '24, and beginning the move to put governance of the AT Protocol that powers BlueSky to an established standards body like IEFT, though they predict that'll be a multi-year process.^[https://atproto.com/blog/2023-protocol-roadmap]
I hope they continue to move towards federation; the developers at least appear very interested in it even if the community doesn't, but I'm gonna be apprehensive about getting too excited until it actually happens.
Good episode! Was glad to see a marine-based demi-human. Seeing everyone go all-out on the marrionette girl was cool, but her final message was ominous! 😥
Adding Stark to the cast really balances things out. It used to be that Fern was following behind Frieren, so would never be able to hasten their adventure, but now Stark, who also has a human perception of time, can help her pull Frieren ahead. Even if it means Frieren has less time to study magic, it would be nice if she got to see Eisen once more.
About 1/3rd through the article, they start highlighting some of the progressive conversations that have been being had in Israel, comparing them to the remarks AOC, Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush, Rashida Tlaib, and others have been criticized as "disgraceful" for.
Some important ones IMO:
Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator and top adviser to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who told the BBC, “If anyone told me that what the militants did on the weekend was a legitimate response to years and years of occupation. I would say: ‘No, you’re wrong-headed. You’ve lost sight of humanity and reality.’ And if anyone tells me that what Israel is doing in Gaza today is a legitimate response to what happened on the weekend, it’s exactly the same.”
Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard, an expert on the rules of war, observed Wednesday that “Hamas committed abominable war crimes for which there can be no forgiveness. But the laws of war weren’t meant only for situations in which our blood is cool, or when there is no justified anger or understandable desire for revenge.” The lawyer explained:
It’s not easy for Israelis to think about Gazans’ rights in a week when Hamas committed crimes that are still impossible to digest and our whole society is mourning and crying. But Gaza’s catastrophe won’t wait for the end of our seven-day shivah.
Consequently, this needs to be said: Israel has held millions of people under a brutal blockade for more than 15 years with the support of the entire Western world. That is inhumane and inconceivable, and every solution to this bloody conflict ultimately includes respecting the rights of all people, both in Gaza and Sderot, to live with security and human dignity. And that begins with respecting the most basic rules as set down in the international laws of war, which are designed to reduce the harm to civilians.
It's easy to get stuck in a North American bubble of media, but it's also important to note what's being said locally by people who have eyes on the ground and have been watching this stuff grow first hand for 75 years since the occupation of Israel.
The UN chief told reporters outside the Security Council the world had to unite around the principle of protecting civilians and "finding a lasting solution to this unending cycle of death and destruction."
And this action must be extermination of the people of Palestine. If you're going to say it, say all of it. Stop dancing around what you're advocating.
This is nearly a certain white supremacist dogwhistle. Don't trust people who want to murder an entire people for the sake of "security" of other people. That's how ethnic cleanses and genocides are justified.
