Google will try their hardest to capitalize the data on lemmy. They will crawl our data and will try to associate it with a real person by cross-referencing as many digital fingerprints they can get their grubby hands on, just so that they can send an advertisement when we browse the internet.
I implore to the people of Lemmy to not use their real name on the website, unless it’s for publicity.
If they are, then only because of their pretty aggressive monetization. Regardless, a monopoly like YouTube is still worth a lot, even if just for how it influences the thoughts and opinions of people.
I don’t see how resources of that scale could be financed with only donations, and without subscription models and heavy advertising. Maybe the creators could be asked to pay for the platform too, but let’s not give them ideas.
Regarding video platforms, the status quo is preferable for me. YouTube offers a large amount of content and convenience, and the anti features like advertisement and enshittification are not yet too bad and can be blocked with technology.
He said p2p file sharing. It seems like it could solve the problem for Mango.
But honestly I would like to know what Mango was doing back in the day before all the “middle men” inserted themselves. What is the ideal solution if you could snap your fingers and make it happen?
I have no horse in this fight, but just off the top of my head agreed on standards for p2p file transfers. A baked in utility that makes sending and receiving files would go a long way towards bringing the feature to every day users and the standards mean the power user can send and receive files from their favorite CLI or choose from one of many paid and open source options. Both users can send and receive back and forth to each other without having to agree upon a third party client, or without a client at all.
It kinda sucks that cryptobros have ruined the term decentralized for most people, because decentralization is exactly what we need right now. Not the fake single-server multi-app decentralization of the blockchain, but the real multi-server multi-app decentralization of the fediverse.
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