Oh, of course, I was never denying that.

Sure, just as we have small independent email instances. But by and large the vast supermajority belong to a few large players.

I have no doubt the same will happen to the Fediverse.

Capitalism ruins everything in the end.

Oh good gods I hope not. That kind of popularity is what killed Reddit.

Getting hugely popular --> Higher server costs --> Increased temptation towards profit-seeking

Sure, the whole of Lemmy wouldn’t privatize (at least at first), but what would likely happen is just as what has happened over the last 20 years with email: a few instances gets most of the traffic over the course of a decade or two, meaning small, independent instances won’t be able to compete.

Sure, their hosting ability (“users/dollar”, if you will) would plateau, but as more and more people join the big instances (think lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, and so forth), the percentage of the Fediverse going to small, independent instances would increasingly get smaller, until we end up a corporatized federated Web to match our corporatized unitary Web.

Money and the power of “fuck you”.

:(

I believe it was merely a typo.

I have no opinion because “Latin Americans” are human just like me. They have the same struggles, the same worries, the same joys, the same priorities. Their game pieces are the same; it’s only where on the board they put them that’s different.

To paint a whole group of literal hundreds of millions of people spanning across a geographic region of 1½–2 continents (depending on reckoning)

and twenty countries

is utter nonsense.

Definitely just the hammer & sickle. It still very much applies.

Alternatively, though this is not strictly Communism but Socialism, I really like the common logo used for Democratic Socialism, the Fist and Rose!

I also really like the logo of the Democratic Socialists of America!

Except not all comrades are white-collar workers.

A very large number of us, believe it or not, are blue collar.

(I’m one of them.)

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I think it’s nonsense.

The “free market” is never truly free, and if there isn’t something holding the capitalist class back, they will always dominate the working class until the system just breaks. The only way for a stable society to exist is for checks and balances.

People in the European Middle Ages (5th–15th centuries CE, in case you’re curious) thought the earth was flat.

All the more reason to avoid it then. I dislike shorts.

Not everyone wants to watch a whole video. Could you tell us your point? As in why you’re using DisplayPort instead of HDMI. For what reasons? What made you look into this? And so forth.

Honestly, with the hashtags included and the post body the same as the title, this looks less like a genuine post and more like a post trying to advertise a particular YouTube video.

Because it never should’ve been made in the first place.

Like the Star Wars sequels, it was just yet another example of

• a mainstream, well-known, toe-the-line corporate Hollywood director who
• is known for making big bombastic movies that are great eye-candy but shallow stories (“a mile wide but an inch deep”),
• who aren’t actually fans of the franchise & are thus actually just outsiders to the fandom and thus don’t know what makes actual members of the fandom “tick”, what makes the content great and all that,
• and because they’re not huge fans of the franchise, rather than spend the time & energy to consume, understand, and get up to speed with all the years of varied lore (good and bad), they just go the lazy route, say “fuck it let’s just do a reboot” so they don’t have to do all the work.

It’s easy to say that the Kelvinverse is “just an alternative canon”, but that’s only because it largely flopped. If the Kelvinverse had taken off, or if Paramount had been stubborn and kept with it like Disney has with the Star Wars “Disney canon”, it would have undoubtedly been the only officially recognized canon. This is exactly what happened to Star Wars, and as it stands Legends/EU canon have only largely been kept alive by the fans, with very few exceptions (one of them being the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO).

I hope you like it!

I personally really like the “DTM-08” theme by 11pixels. ;)

I don’t normally like mustard anything, but yeah that shit is fire.

All of the Kelvin-verse Star Trek movies and all Disney-canon Star Wars content.

.......Except for Andor and Rogue One. That shit is tight.

• Google Maps: Switch to CoMaps, they’re a fork of Organic Maps that grew out of a transparency issue with the Organic Maps core developers
• Youtube on pc: Not familiar with youtube-tui with mpv but FreeTube is pretty awesome too :3
• Clients for offline music: I like kew (for PC) :3
• Discord: Element is good, but in the interim you should check out Equibop! It’s a fork of the Discord client that strips out a lot of the telemetry.

And regarding PeerTube, be aware that if you go into it expecting it to be a replacement for YouTube, you will always end up disappointed. YouTube is just too big and entrenched at this point and it’s just not possible for any site to be a straight-up 1:1 replacement.

It’s kind of like renewable energy sources: no one method is going to supplant fossil fuels, but multiple different options being used where each is effective the most has worked quite well in putting a quite noticeable dent, even if not a large one, in the world’s usage of it. Likewise, PeerTube, Odyssey, Nebula, all the different sources cropping up will never replace YouTube individually, but collectively it will give people more options, which is always good.

Likewise, I’ve found that PeerTube is great for discovering new content, but it requires a perspective change. Honestly it reminds me more of YouTube in its early days. Not a lot of high-cost productions, but more just regular people putting up videos because they have a passion for it and want to share that passion. For now, I still do use YouTube, but I am finding some great stuff here and there on PeerTube as well. I guess what I’m saying is PeerTube cannot be a replacement of YouTube, but it can be a supplement to YouTube, if you want it to be.

Anyway, sorry for the ramble. Haha. Have a great day and good luck! ^_^

EDIT: Markdown syntax.

Because I splurged and bought too many Snyder’s of Hanover pretzel bags and now don’t have any money. :C

Yes, it stays there.

That’s really cool that the snooze thing makes it go away!