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zlatiah, 10 months ago

Might be a hot take but... I don't think Odysee is a failure by any means? They did establish themselves somewhat. A very good number of FOSS creators already synced their content over or even made Odysee their primary platform, Mental Outlaw was probably the most famous one. They also got their weird LBRY nonsense sorted out so there was at least some type of monetization.

The thing was... Odysee seems to be catering very much towards the right-end of the political spectrum, so that might end up deterring a lot of ppl. Wouldn't assume some people who just want to watch cat memes to like getting a bunch of conspiracy theory and stuff thrown at their face... PSA The Linux Experiment (TLE) is very much aware of Odysee and explicitly avoided the platform because of that reason

There's also Peertube as an alternative, but if Odysee suffers from bad marketing/bad monetization then... lol. Not to name names here but there is a prominent content creator (who is also on Nebula and on Mastodon) who mentioned that they don't want to deal with Peertube with all the extra hassles for potentially just some freeloaders to watch their content for free.

zlatiah, 10 months ago

Out of curiosity... Anyone use the Steam Deck as a computer beyond just gaming? I don't play games that much but I'd love a decent spec portable computer that I can also use to play video games, the price is quite generous given what its specs look like so...

zlatiah, 10 months ago

... wait am I the only one who conscientiously not want to upvote my own posts because of that?

zlatiah, 10 months ago

Embrace the chaos once you realize Mastodon gGmbH is German and Misskey.io is Japanese

Jokes aside...does blocking magazines work? I don't know if this could be a feature incorporated into lemmy/kbin as well

zlatiah, 10 months ago

If fingerprint protection is what I want, LibreWolf comes with a very sensible default as compared to stock Firefox. If I am familiar enough with about.config and stuff then hardened Firefox can reach bonkers levels of privacy as well

If a Chromium-based browser is required that has Brave's level of privacy protection but none of the crypto nonsense... Yeah I'm not aware of any as of right now. Maybe once the Duckduckgo Browser becomes available?

zlatiah, 10 months ago

So having all the mods quit is actually a viable way to protest? (writes down notes)

zlatiah, 10 months ago

Self-hosted SearXNG. Very easy to self-host, and (for the most part) works just fine

zlatiah, 10 months ago

For that sweet sweet ad revenue from my understanding

Since... It's significantly more difficult to avoid ads/data harvesting from an in-house-designed app than, say, a 3rd party browser with adblockers, or 3rd party apps that don't run ads at all

zlatiah, 10 months ago

Almost always the car except for some edge cases.
The only situation I'd take the boat is if 1) I already have a pickup truck or an SUV or something to haul the boat, 2) I live <30min from a nice boating spot, and 3) I don't already have a boat. Then yeah I'd take a boat (any boat) since it'd be an experience I otherwise don't have
Realistically... I'm not sure by "fancy" you mean Lexus- or Lamborghini-level fancy, if it is the latter I couldn't ever afford it lmao

zlatiah, 10 months ago

I had a good bit of thought about this too... This kind of mindset should never be allowed in customer-facing fields in the first place (cough cough all the social media privacy hellhole we are in today...), let alone ones that risk human lives tbh.

zlatiah, 10 months ago

Not sure how much of it is "predatory" behavior and how much of it is just a combination of being a masterful salesman + being really, really dumb, "drinking his own Kool-aid"... The dude was piloting the sub on every expedition after all

zlatiah, 10 months ago

Not sure if this has anything to do with me being Autistic but I eat the same thing every meal... pasta, with veggies and protein (depending on what I have). Breakfast just means additional coffee. If I really don't have time then it's bakery and fried burrito from the nearby supermarket.

Tried to have a more "typical" American breakfast for a while until I realized I'm lactose intolerant so that never went anywhere...

zlatiah, 10 months ago

Last online thing I bought or literally last thing I bought?

Last thing I bought were groceries from the supermarket, I already have a lifelong weekly subscription lol. Last thing I bought online was a cat tree which would be quite an interesting proposition...

zlatiah, 11 months ago

And to further elaborate, the following post basically ensured the formation of the meme...

https://kbin.social/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml/t/84271/I-need-to-survive-for-3-days-while-pooping-as

And yeah, shit hit the fan from there (no pun intended)

zlatiah, 11 months ago

Holy hell

zlatiah, 11 months ago

Excellent read. Have just re-posted this on 'key, thanks for sharing this.
I agree that Meta is doing something very dangerous to the fediverse... hope they could be stopped in their tracks.

zlatiah, 11 months ago

From my paltry observations it seems like opinions about federating with Meta spread into the following:
1: All for-profit corporations bad, so no federation
2: Meta bad, so no federation
3: Meta bad, but wait & observe first
4: Growing the influence of fediverse is usually preferred
5: Free speech for all

Honestly the article resonates with me a lot. I assume many old-guards of Mastodon are ppl who are fully aware of how federation works & are somewhat left-leaning and anti-capitalist, so they have a tendency to not want to federate with Meta.

So it certainly doesn't help that a few very influential people signed the NDA to join the Meta meeting, which would almost signal that they are more right-leaning (which is not what most people are like on fedi). Regarding the NDA part: people sign NDAs for too many things in pharma (my undergrad field) so I didn't realize it was such a big deal... I think it probably rubbed too many people in the wrong way.

Also, for large general instances, I wouldn't be surprised if many people have ideological differences with their admin or their neighbors, which probably resulted in some "fun" discussions.

Finally, PSA: I know some people hate their admins now but please do not ever send death threats to people, seriously

zlatiah, 11 months ago

Ah so there are some people on the fediverse who believe that any restriction is bad... Like the ppl who think domain blocks are too strict and stuff like that.

Pretty much everyone I've seen on Mastodon knows that Meta is bad. However, I've seen quite a few people echoing the sentiment that "hey I know Meta is bad but blocking is wrong & they haven't done anything wrong on the fediverse". The thought comes across as a bit naive to me but... to each their own.

zlatiah, 11 months ago

poncle is literally the gift that keeps on giving

Kinda curious how 4-player co-op avoids crashing if all of them got lvl8 Vandaliers...

zlatiah, 11 months ago

I don't think I have the mental fortitude to mod a magazine, especially one having to deal with sensitive topics that could affect someone's life... We'll see how this goes tho

zlatiah, 11 months ago

"Ok Winnie"

zlatiah, 11 months ago

Was not feeling well for most of the week, and my city is experiencing historical heat waves (feels like temp is over 110 degrees F / 43 degrees C), the two may or may not be correlated... Not the worst I suppose?