I know it’s onion, but they’re actively working the problem with TikToc/drones/CHINA

I wish them the best of luck. Back when they were well funded, they had a hard time staying up without servers. I hope they sort it out.

Yup, they will comply with legal requirements, but it usually has to go to a lawyer before they’ll intervene.

I’d imagine it’d be outrageous without a CDN.

The idea is you’d have dozens or hundreds of people hosting loops and they’d each spread the cost among them and get funded by followers and philanthropists. Most lemmy instances use CDN, but it’s nowhere near as heavy media-wise.

You could also go the Peertube route and have the client share what you’re watching with other people torrent style.

Yeah, discoverability is work on Fedi, unfortunately most people would rather consume algo content from a bad source then work to find good people to follow.

Everything is open, I suspect if we REALLY wanted to we could make an indexing service to help surface content based on preferences, but then that’s a high value target for corporate America to farm. Also it would be pretty expensive to pay for it :)

I’m, not sure about that. vance is probably a lot more likely to be worn as a sock puppet. drumpf will at least give them a hard time everytime he doesn’t want to do something.

Everything on Fedi is just different interfaces and perf from the user perspective.

People want to continue to use something close to Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter but not be locked to their enshitified companies who decide what they get to see.

Many that come over find out there’s no algorithm and that they have to follow people to get any content, they find they miss the doom scroll and go straight back.

Microblogging is covered by Mastodon and Pleroma. People there could easily use them for the same content. There are a ton of options to crosspost tumblr to Mastodon.

The biggest problem is discovery on Tumblr is a LOT easier than Mastodon, you have to advertise and advocate for yourself

There was a github request to integrate lbry into fedi, but it never gained any traction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse#/media/File:A_view_into_the_Fediverse.png

So, no, they’re not in the fediverse and don’t interconnect with the other players.

Here are the current places that play well together.

Odysee had a shot at making it bigger than it was, but it’s really drowning in bad (moral and qualty) content. They never really recovered from their crypto scheme, once the SEC started looking into them, they got screwed. I’m down with the idea of paying creators in crypto, but they were selling it as a security.

As much as cloud flare is the evil overlord, they’re actually highly resistant to blocking sites. You really need to force their hand before they’ll block it they don’t just flip the switch on any request.

I think we need to take apart IPFS and put it back together in a more usable form.

Hell just torrenting the APKs wouldn’t be that hard. We’ve been hosting s*** that people don’t want hosted since the internet was a couple of daemons on big iron

Nah, they’re not big on non-compliance. So consider an uprising. Spez wants to play with a big oligarchs, he won’t take a chance on pissing anyone off.

I suspect it’s truly more of a dunning-Kruger situation. When you know nothing You’re down to use it for everything. When you start to understand the problems, limits and the morality of it, you start to back off some. And as you approach the ability to host it yourself and do actual work with it, you fully welcome the useful bits in your workflow.

If you do it right, you can do all that once.

Opensubtitles on plexus pretty smooth. You just have to wait a day or two for most things to be ready and clean.

Be careful what you wish for though

No, I’m calling BS. They’ll impeach anyone they think they can get away with it on. They investigated the shit out of Biden. They’re not being held back by some for of fear of tit for tat decorum. That’s wildly inaccurate.

For it to succeed, it would require congress to agree which they won’t because they’re conspiriting. And if it did get him out, then we get Vance who is also a Nazi. Protest, Resist, put up an fight, and wait in hopes that he’s bad enough that the right and left people can field some half decent candidates and stop being nazi’s

Alternatively, we’re now making/selling a lot of armbands.

could always take them for a ride…

R as in dit dahh dit

U as in dit dit dahh

M as it dahh dahh

…

Then he tried to walk it back by gaslighting.

“I wasn’t being political” said the man who was clearly being political.

God I love bash. There’s always something to learn.

my logical steps

• #! yup
• if sure!
• [[ -z makes sense
• ${1:-} WHAT IN SATANS UNDERPANTS… parameter expansion I think… reads docs … default value! shit that’s nice.

it’s like buying a really simple generic car then getting excited because it actually has a spare and cupholders.

He’s just checking on his investment…

I stay the f away from it. You haven’t spent enough time to properly train it. As you watch, it tracks time spent on each video, interactions, passive and active choices and slowly builds a dossier on you.

As you keep going, it occasionally throws adjacent stuff in. It starts tossing you stuff that other people with your likes watch. If there is content on there that you’ll appreciate, it will eventually find it. If there is enough, it’ll stream it to you non-stop.

They’ll find people who share your political alignment and say precisely what you want to hear. If you like brunettes with flowy blouses or redheads who are gym rats, you’ll get them. If you like skeptics or preppers, you’ll get them.

My wife gets a lot of her news from it, I find probably 1/3 of it to be suspect and 90% of it biased toward what she wants to hear. Nothing there is telling both sides of any story. (to be clear we have the same political/ethical views, but I’m a touch more skeptical about journalism and random influencers, especially popular influencers)