tko @ tko @tkohhh.social

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This is a question for Randall Munroe. I wish I knew how to summon him.

Selling is an art... and this is why I'm not in sales. I have absolutely no interest in trying to convince somebody to buy something.

Ahhh that makes more sense... that's about 0.13 USD. It's interesting to me, because I would gladly pay that much per video (or more!) if it meant I didn't have to watch ads.

Of course that model doesn't exactly lend itself to mindlessly clicking through videos (which is what Youtube wants). I know there are other video platforms out there... do you know of any that charge users per view?

Thanks for doing the math!

Forgive me, I'm not super familiar with world currencies... is that 10 GBP?

Just out of curiosity... if you could charge per view rather than relying on ads, how much would you need to charge per view in order to meet your income goals?

Maybe it's not a conspiracy... maybe people are just uninterested in reading your drama and don't think it belongs in asklemmy.

If I'm being honest, I've never even looked to see what language most of the stuff I run is written in. Out of 16 apps that I'm running, only 3 are accessible from outside my LAN. Those three are high-profile open source projects that are actively maintained. That's enough for me to be comfortable security-wise in my environment.

I wrote my personal website in PHP, and I'm pretty happy with the security I've got going on. I'm not an expert, but I paid close attention to best practices to avoid pitfalls like SQL injection. My instinct is that it's certainly easy to code insecure applications in PHP (and probably many other languages as well), but the language does provide means by which to code safely.

I'm not sure I follow what you mean by "If the viewer watches the ad, the ad buyer does not receive a return on investment." Doesn't the ad buyer want the viewer to watch the ad?

In any case, my comment was in the context of the OP, which is specifically concerned about the creator making money. If you care about the creator making money (and you should), then you have to either watch ads or pay them directly (via patreon, e.g.).

I have to admit that I have a sore spot for this subject. I believe (at least in America) that people are far too comfortable with the idea that we should be able to consume art for free. Obviously paying less is better than paying more from a personal finance perspective (and paying nothing is best!). However, it's quite clear that the distribution platforms are more interested in making a profit than they are in compensating creators fairly (some are better than others, of course). If the distribution platforms are stiffing the creators, and the consumers are paying little or nothing, then it's the creator left with the short end of the stick.

Generally speaking, creators just want their creations to be seen/heard because they care MOST about the art, not the money. Unfortunately, this often leaves them making less than they deserve for the value they create. Who benefits from this price/value disparity? The distribution platforms. I think if most people thought about this arrangement for a little bit, they would probably prefer that the creator gets more money and the distribution platforms get less.

However, I don't think that's the whole story. Distribution platforms need to make some money to cover the expenses of running the platform. I think it's entirely likely that the cost paid (via ad impressions) doesn't actually cover the TOTAL expense of paying the distribution platform overhead AS WELL AS fairly compensating the creator.

All that is to say, when you think about art in a producer/consumer context, it makes the most economic sense for the consumer to pay the producer. This circles back to my original premise: people are far too comfortable with the idea that we should be able to consume art for free. If we could get ourselves into the mindset that art is valuable and therefore should cost some money, I think we'd have a much more vibrant art culture.

Respectfully, if you can't afford something, then you shouldn't consume it. Ads are a nice way for creators to get paid for the time they put into creating the thing without requiring their customers to actually fork out money. If you don't want to fork out money AND you don't want to watch ads, then you need to just not consume that media. Anything else is not fair to the content creator.

Regarding your edit: people are answering the question you posed in your post title, not necessarily giving you advice about how you should do it.

What makes you think there is any correlation between being able to sign up for Lemmy and knowing anything about artificial sweeteners? Those two things seem completely unrelated to me.

I think you've hit the nail on the head... many of us grew up using Windows and/or Mac. Incremental changes to the OS aren't a hindrance because of the baseline familiarity with the OS. Without OS familiarity, you're going to feel like a fish out of water.

I'm getting better with linux, but I still daily drive on a Windows machine and I'm not sure if that will ever change.

Let us know what you think after you try it!

Science is cool.

Wait, is Russia in Europe?

Edit: apparently it's in both. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundaries_between_the_continents

I'm with you. I figured out through various comments that I should update my UI to 0.18.2-rc.1, and also run an update statement on my database to fix the modlog. Only after that did I find the matrix channel. Eventually I also found !lemmy_admin@lemmy.ml which is great, but the only thread there on this issue doesn't even mention updating the UI. I think if we can get to the point where critical information that admins need to know is consistently posted in one place, it'll make everybody's life easier. I don't think that's too much to ask.

Where is this Matrix Channel? Is it private? How can I get access as an instance admin?

In case anyone is not aware, "upmost" is a word, but it's often substituted incorrectly for "utmost." https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/utmost-vs-upmost-difference#:~:text=Utmost%20means%20%E2%80%9Cgreatest%E2%80%9D%20or%20%E2%80%9C,mean%20%E2%80%9Cgreatest.%E2%80%9D%20Use%20utmost

Is threads Mastadon? or Lemmy? or something else? How does it interact with lemmy? And how can I block it on my server?

Do I understand correctly that you're asking us to give you a good reason to hack wireless signals because you yourself cannot think of a good reason?

If so, I can't think of a good reason either, unless of course you want to be a white hat for somebody.