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If I had to compare this to a historical event, it would be like the Puritans leaving England for America to escape the oppressive bureaucracy that controlled their lives.
There's radical freedom in decentralized social media. The question is whether or not it will take off as a viable alternative to Facebook/Twitter/YouTube -- or whether it will become the next Parler-esque shipwreck.
I wonder at what point we as internet users will decide that we're willing to pay for services in order to maintain more control? In the meantime I sympathize with folks who in a way have ground rules changed on them, but then again were using a free service where they were the product... The internet is a weird place where we demand everything be free as just a baseline rule, and then complain when the product that…
I wonder at what point we as internet users will decide that we're willing to pay for services in order to maintain more control? In the meantime I sympathize with folks who in a way have ground rules changed on them, but then again were using a free service where they were the product... The internet is a weird place where we demand everything be free as just a baseline rule, and then complain when the product that…
there's plenty of stuff i'd be willing to pay for if it didn't involve creating yet another account and giving them my credit card info.
I wonder at what point we as internet users will decide that we're willing to pay for services in order to maintain more control? In the meantime I sympathize with folks who in a way have ground rules changed on them, but then again were using a free service where they were the product... The internet is a weird place where we demand everything be free as just a baseline rule, and then complain when the product that…
HTTP 402 being left unimplemented only seemed natural to me just a decade ago; today looks an incredibly stupid decision. How things change……
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/402
Its payment required.
What are the per-viewer costs these days to host video files on a plain web server? Perhaps with a CDN?
What are the per-viewer costs these days to host video files on a plain web server? Perhaps with a CDN?
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He posted a video[1] about why he left. It sounds like YouTube updated terms of service that required him to allow YouTube to put ads in his videos and he never wanted to monetize his work, he’s making the videos to share information, not to make money for him or anyone else. [1] https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/videos/watch/6b779810-671...
Evil company decides not to take a loss on hosting probably zettabytes of video? It's really hard to paint youtube as the villain here and keep a straight face.
I wonder at what point we as internet users will decide that we're willing to pay for services in order to maintain more control? In the meantime I sympathize with folks who in a way have ground rules changed on them, but then again were using a free service where they were the product... The internet is a weird place where we demand everything be free as just a baseline rule, and then complain when the product that…
the main holdup i think is truly effortless and secure, private, and widely accepted micropayments. there's plenty of stuff i'd be willing to pay for if it didn't involve creating yet another account and giving them my credit card info.
I wonder at what point we as internet users will decide that we're willing to pay for services in order to maintain more control? In the meantime I sympathize with folks who in a way have ground rules changed on them, but then again were using a free service where they were the product... The internet is a weird place where we demand everything be free as just a baseline rule, and then complain when the product that…
To them the internet and everything on it is free (and what isn't free is just greed by the owner) and ads are these annoying thing that crop up everywhere.
What are the per-viewer costs these days to host video files on a plain web server? Perhaps with a CDN?
And, as peer says, discoverability unless you already have an audience.