arthurpizza

I don’t make phone calls and rarely use SMS. All the features I need/want from a phone would be missing.

Maybe I’m in the minority here, but I genuinely love my phone. It makes my life better.

I’m sure the 2nd amendment folks are making a big fuss about this, right? Right?!

Who could have guessed this very obvious a most expected outcome?! Not Spotify, I guess.

Gopher is cool, but none of my friends will install a gopher browser.

A lot of companies have managed password services. If Doug from HR gets locked out at 2AM on a Tuesday night, they can reach out to the 24/7 support instead of calling me.

I’ve been using Kodi to pull movies from my NAS for years.

NAS + Tailscale + Kodi is the easiest to setup for me. Works really good.

They think they have enough users locked in to just pay over setting up another server. They might.

Help me understand how this is Open Source? Perhaps I’m missing something, but this is Source Available.

I’m a YouTube creator, part of the partner program, and I also manually upload to TILvids. The videos I make generate about $100-$300 a year through the partner program, so I’m not a professional by any means. It feels like they’re trying to keep creators from leaving by putting up small roadblocks that limit our reach beyond the platform. Given PeerTube’s non-profit model, I see it as a potential future for content sharing. Though there are a few rock stars on YouTube, most of the creators on that platform make little to no money from publishing videos. There are more people like me than Linus Media Group.

I create content that goes into YouTube. I generate a tiny bit of revenue from that. I have no say into how YouTube treats my viewers. If you watch the ads, awesome, I get some money. If not, I’m just glad you watched the video.

The majority of content on the platform is made up of channels my size and smaller. Most of us are getting paid pennies.

But YouTube doesn’t care about us. They want to appease the larger studios.

Sounds like you don’t understand the sex work industry.

• People already get porn for free. Nothing new here.
• Some things you can’t synthesize. Like experiences.
• For a lot of people it’s not just about the sex but the personalities of the models.
• Some make the content because they like to make the content.

I think you’ll find a lot more leftists interested in platforms that are not powered solely by money and profit. Lemmy, much like Mastodon and other federated platforms, only need instances to run to be usable. It doesn’t require millions of dollars to keep it afloat.

Generally speaking centrist and right wingers, especially in Western countries, tend to be very capitalist. They only understand the value in terms of money.