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Some Peertube instances useful for English speakers: https://peertube.nielsemmer.com/videos/local?a-state=42 Documentaries, scitech talks, a few explanatory videos https://tilvids.com/ Varied. 'Fun facts' videos, educational, cooking, mythology, music, ... https://peerkids.com/videos/trending?a-state=42 Peertube for kids - cartoons, education stuff from TEDEd, PBS, etc. that look fun and well-made https://peertube.op…
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> The ecosystem is vibrant, healthy, and will keep growing. > > in my mind there will eventually be a tipping point, Why do so many people insist on Growth and Largest, as metrics for 'success'? My local pub is a success. They are not worlds' largest pub. My Mom and Granny don't go there. They don't have parties with millions of people crammed in the place. Etc. Why can't Linux be called 'a success', the very moment…
Cost of physical distance enables niches that can be served by your local pub. If we could teleport (well, and cohabit the exact same space and tune out conversations of others at will so crowdiness is not an issue) they would have a much much harder time selling something unique. Scale aids in bringing people in, because it becomes the default choice.
> they (the local pub) would have a much harder time selling something unique
> Scale ...becomes the default choice
Scale and monopoly removes choice and uniqueness.
There are people that love Starbucks, there are also people that love their local coffee shop.
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I have a hard time understanding why people feel like this is a new thing. If I start shouting obscenities during a live interview on ANY major media outlet, they will immediately kick me off. Is their refusal really the end of Free Speech?
Consider it from this perspective: Donald Trump was elected, not because he represented conservative people so well. Not even close. He was elected because conservative opinions have been given so little credence versus liberal opinions on the biggest platforms that they turned to someone who would fight those platforms head on. Liberal voices and opinions have been lauded, applauded, and promoted more than their fai…
I’m from a small town in the upper Midwest. My entire childhood and teenage years were dominated by Rush Limbaugh/Charlie Sykes/et al on the radio and Fox News on the television (always Fox News). Did NPR/CNN/etc exist? Sure - but I (literally) didn’t know anyone who listened/watched them until college.
This idea that conservatives are being crushed under the boot of “liberal” media feels like a cop-out. Conservative politicians could have gone big tent in the 80-90’s, but they didn’t. They focused on consolidation of a specific demographic and are now in a kerfluffal because that base is becoming a cultural minority.
Edit: also - the resentment was always there. Go listen to Rush in the 90s. Nothing about what conservatives are complaining about is new.
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Onboarding that guy on any alternative platform would be a huge marketing coverage and grow in userbase for the said platform. I wonder if a company will try to play this card.
The issue is that then a lot of very toxic people will go to that platform and there will be a lot of very toxic content. Then all the people who aren't toxic will leave the platform because they don't want to be subjected to that content. Then advertisers will leave because they don't want their brands associated with that content. Then app stores will drop the app because they don't want their brands associated wit…
I like PeerTube, but the really important part of the puzzle is the advertiser network. What makes YouTube special is that Google takes care of the advertising side of things and makes it easy for people to monetise. If Silicon Valley continues to drift into ideological activism, at some point a hugely profitable opportunity to set up a new advertising network develops.
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>extremely relevant given everything going on What exactly do you mean by that?
Just in case this is a serious question, without editorialising, the following has happened in the past 48 hours: * Trump has been bannned from Twitter. * Trump has attempted to use the POTUS account, and had those tweets removed. * Trump has been removed from Facebook. * Trump has been banned from Twitch. * The Discord server for the_donald has been banned from Discord. * Parler has been removed from the Google Play…
I support the other "deplatformings" (he loooong had it coming), and am neutral about AWS, but this is bullshit. Google, and especially Apple (where there's no workarounds) shouldn't have the right to ban generic software like that !
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Probably. I've also been in Open Source around 20 years, UK based. I don't recall hearing about Framasoft before.
Opensource needs to somehow unify. With more awareness of open-source developers and projects between each other, we could maybe make some real difference. Opensource devs and maintainers could all from each other and collaborate together. Damn... I sound like a business person that throws around words like synergy.
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Just in case this is a serious question, without editorialising, the following has happened in the past 48 hours: * Trump has been bannned from Twitter. * Trump has attempted to use the POTUS account, and had those tweets removed. * Trump has been removed from Facebook. * Trump has been banned from Twitch. * The Discord server for the_donald has been banned from Discord. * Parler has been removed from the Google Play…
Did AWS pull the plug? I think this is roughly equivalent to Visa telling you that it won't do business with you. Which they recently did with Pornhub. There doesn't seem to be many good solutions. The Refragmentation ( http://paulgraham.com/re.html ) was the only pg essay I truly disliked, because I didn't want it to be true. Yet here we are.
If both Visa and Mastercard happened to have banned you, them being pretty much the only two players in the market, you would be pretty much fucked.
Meanwhile there were tons of ways to be hosted, including self-hosting.
Nowadays I'm not so sure, both Visa/Mastercard duopoly doesn't seem to be as uncontested as before, and AWS kept growing ?
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Cost of physical distance enables niches that can be served by your local pub. If we could teleport (well, and cohabit the exact same space and tune out conversations of others at will so crowdiness is not an issue) they would have a much much harder time selling something unique. Scale aids in bringing people in, because it becomes the default choice.
You contradict, and invalidate yourself, in your own argument. > they (the local pub) would have a much harder time selling something unique > Scale ...becomes the default choice Scale and monopoly removes choice and uniqueness. There are people that love Starbucks, there are also people that love their local coffee shop.
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Did AWS pull the plug? I think this is roughly equivalent to Visa telling you that it won't do business with you. Which they recently did with Pornhub. There doesn't seem to be many good solutions. The Refragmentation ( http://paulgraham.com/re.html ) was the only pg essay I truly disliked, because I didn't want it to be true. Yet here we are.
A few years ago the comparison wouldn't had stood : If both Visa and Mastercard happened to have banned you, them being pretty much the only two players in the market, you would be pretty much fucked. Meanwhile there were tons of ways to be hosted, including self-hosting. Nowadays I'm not so sure, both Visa/Mastercard duopoly doesn't seem to be as uncontested as before, and AWS kept growing ?