• Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I agree, peer tube’s biggest issues so far besides the storage or the fact that there are almost no peer tube servers which offer user accounts (which isn’t needed explicitly to watch videos but makes the experience much better), and also the fact that there aren’t really any good apps to use it with that aren’t outdated or abandoned.

    • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      5 months ago

      You know that PeerTube has a build-in video import tool ? It can import Youtube / Dailymotion / Vimeo channels or playlists.

      https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use/channel-sync

      I think that downloading YouTube videos is technically illegal unless you have been the uploader of the videos. But with PeerTube you can create private channels which you could share with friends or maybe even paid subscribers I guess.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I really want to love peertube and use it but the transition is hard. I feel bad for “wasting” server space and compute and when I view the video on peertube I’m making my favorite creators gain less traction on YouTube which directly affects their income and growth.

      • radiant_bloom@lemm.eeEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Honestly, I’m murdering the productivity of every channel I watch anyways with uBlock origin and sponsorBlock, so I don’t think it’d be much worse

      • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Some of them can be supported through Patreon and they’re getting way more money than through YouTube.

        But it’s through that it lacks content and it’s also difficult to find content on peertube.

          • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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            5 months ago

            It needs a recommendation algorithm. Search is simply not enough to find videos you may like.

            Search would be enough if it had the content library of YouTube.

          • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            5 months ago

            Give what you can and if you can’t it’s also okay.

            I’m only giving 1$ a month to the Linux Experiment, but, according to him, that’s way more than what he would get from me watching his videos on YouTube.

            I’m also donating 100$ a year to many open source projects, but I might have to give up because of financial troubles too…

  • nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    i would have the entire internet go back to being protocols instead of proprietary platforms

  • XNX@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Forums, facebook groups (but not owned by meta), Letterboxd, Amazon (without amazon)

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      It’s not really that fundamentally different from the idea of Lemmy, the interface is just different but the idea of having communities and posts in the communities is the same.

      The thing that would be tricky and would probably have the most friction would be anonymous posting since that’s where things get really ugly regarding moderation and user conduct, since a good amount are just going to be spammers and many others will be trolls and malicious users.

        • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Yeah that would be very difficult to implement safely, and probably wouldn’t be worth the effort since the Federated model means that signing up for an account somewhere on the Fediverse is much easier already.

          Anonymous posting might have been a necessary evil on the early internet before you had all these Federated servers, but nowadays having other servers fills the role of granting easier access since you can sign up to another one where that process may be easier.

          • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            5 months ago

            The only way of anonymously posting I could imagine on a federated image board would be to use an account on some other Fediverse platform (e.g. Mastodon, Firefish, Mbin, etc.) and to have the name of the account hidden for anonymous posts. That could maybe work, idk. Would be pretty cool tho

    • Blum0108@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      What is the practical difference between that and what we have here? Genuinely curious.

  • daltotron@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    All of em, really. I don’t see much of a reason why the vast majority of platforms wouldn’t benefit from it, except for maybe an argument around it allowing the creation of larger and larger echo chambers, but that’s probably fine as long as it’s managed to only be to a certain degree.

  • oxjox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Twitter.

    I know this is the “wrong answer” but I had always used Twitter to keep tabs on local government agencies, newspapers, reporters, restaurants, bars, events, concerts, sports teams, etc. Not to mention all the accounts that pertain to my hobby’s and interests.

    I’ve used bird.makeup but it’s not reliable if it works at all. Some agencies, like our transit system and streets department, will post on one thing on their website and something else on instagram or twitter (many have stopped using twitter after the api change). RSS is fine for some things but not everything. I haven’t been using instagram for years because of advertising and the algorithmic timeline. I at least need lists.

    Really, the right answer here for my needs is that all these groups need to join the fediverse. I just don’t see that happening.

    Or maybe I should say I wish the “existing platform” of my city government would start their own instance.

    • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I know this is the “wrong answer” but I have always used Twitter to keep tabs on local government agencies, newspapers, reporters, restaurants, bars, events, concerts, sports teams, etc. Not to mention all the accounts that pertain to my hobby’s and interests.

      Yes, it’s a problem. Even several open source projects use Tw(X)tter as their main outlet. A few years ago one project even used it to share an important security update! They must have posted it in their Discourse forum as well but I don’t visit that often. I stumbled upon the important post by coincidence with Nitter (Nitter is declared dead since a few months). Since then, lesson learned, I use some notification.

      Really, the right answer here for my needs is that all these groups need to join the fediverse. I just don’t see that happening.

      Agreed. Some people stay there because “everyone is there”, or their favorite VIPs are there, or people stay there because they think they should fight the bad things that happened to it from within :/ Sad.

      Or maybe I should say I wish the “existing platform” of my city government would start their own instance.

      That would be cool.Governments, at least in the country where I live in, need to make an effort to be transparent and reach out to their citizens without creating insurmountable barriers.Start an on-line petition and getting people to sign it, and share with the local government ?

  • Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    5 months ago

    LinkedIn.

    It’s one of the last social media I have. Benefits outweigh cons, but I still would like to get rid of it

    • Mocha@discuss.onlineEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I wish they had an official presence in the Fediverse.

      I kind of miss seeing the tweets on the homepage and think to myself that Mastodon or one of its forked versions would be the ideal replacement.