Do they prioritize the data at the beginning now?

I remember my bittorrent client having an option to do that even back in like 2010, though I never used it to actually stream, because my Internet wasn’t good enough.

As others have said, Nebula is pretty great. Much more limited in content, since creators are invite-only, and they curate for high quality creators. But it’s growing quite quickly and has a wide variety of content from leftist cultural video essays, to music analysis, to urbanism, film criticism, science, original films, game shows, and more.

There are a couple of centrist creators on there that I personally avoid, but most creators are centre-left to leftist, and I don’t think there’s anyone I would explicitly describe as right-wing.

It’s subscription only, but extremely affordable at $36/year or $6/month if you sign up through a creator’s invite code, and I think they promised grandfathered pricing if they raise the price in the future. You can see their library without an account at https://nebula.tv/explore/videos. Or ask any more questions you might have at [email protected].

Yeah Nebula is for sure the best with the volume and variety of content they have. But there are also many creators/groups creating their own independent platforms. The NZ-based videogame sketch creators Viva la Dirt League have Viva+, the ancient tech podcast/vodcast company This Week in Tech has Club TWiT, and probably most successfully the former CollegeHumor is now focusing on improv comedy as Dropout, among others.

I assume many of these are probably white labelled Patreon (or similar) services, or possibly a front-end site with white-labelled Vimeo for serving videos, rather than building their own infrastructure from scratch. But as far as the viewer is concerned those technical details don’t matter.

Kinda like pirating a movie these days

Not really. More like pirating a movie in 2012. These days, there are excellent-quality pirate streaming services, there’s the ability to stream videos over bittorrent (if there are enough seeds), and probably other options I’m not thinking of that make pirated video more accessible than ever.

It’s also possible, not having seen the videos in question, that they simply did violate YouTube’s rules regarding graphic content. YouTube has had a terrible record of banning important content despite its societal value because of rigid adherence to ill-thought-out content policies. AI takes that problem and turns it up to 11.

I’m not sure what “piece linked” you’re talking about, since none of the parent comments of this comment actually have a link in them.

This is the first time I’ve ever heard of FUTO, but I did read their statement about open source and it sounds pretty good to me. I actually think they’re capitulating a little bit too much by deciding not to call it open source anymore. As far as I’m concerned, if the source is available and anyone can contribute, that’s open source. I don’t particularly care whether or not it’s free for Google to incorporate it into their increasingly-enshitified products or not.

Creative Commons (an org to which FUTO says they have donated) doesn’t like their licences being used for software, presumably for finicky technical legal reasons. But if you imagine the broad spirit of their licences applying to software, all the main CC licences would be open source in my opinion. All combinations of Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike, and No Derivatives, as well as CC0 respect the important elements of open source.

Visitors with UK IP addresses*

FTFY

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omg that is so adorable. Purrsday and Pawsley Addams!

Absolute legend.

Like I told the other user, I actually very frequently don’t do true alt text, but instead write a transcription in the body of the post. I do it using the Lemmy spoiler syntax:

::: spoiler Transcription
[the transcription here]
:::

But one could also just write the transcription directly, especially if it’s relatively short and unlikely to obstruct sighted users’ experience too much.

It’s unfortunate that some apps (including the official one, Jerboa) don’t support the official “alt text” field, and they definitely should, but even the web’s alt text field is rather limited to use for full transcriptions.

Personally I often use the body to add a transcription (not to different from what I put in my comment above), rather than use true “alt text”. The main reason is that I often want to write more than the amount that feels appropriate for an alt text (including having paragraphs), but the visibility of it is an added advantage.

I don’t know if Lemmy has any plans to ever show alt text

It honestly shouldn’t be that hard. Just use both alt and title text properties, the latter of which shows up on hover, and on mobile at the top of the OS’s default long press menu.

But I do agree that the tools should be made to assist. Mastodon basically yells at users to add alt text. Pixelfed already does my suggestion of mirroring the alt text to the title text.

I could ask for nothing more.

I honestly wouldn’t have bothered commenting if not to reply to this, but since this was there, I’ll add that there is something one could ask for: alt text/transcription, for the sake of accessibility for blind and visually impaired users. It’s something I see a lot more on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit, but we could still be a lot better at it. I always try to do it with my own image posts, and often on images in comments, but unfortunately a couple of the most prolific posters of text-based images rarely do it.

edit: here’s the bluesky post

I thought for sure you’d be right. But it turns out, no! Dupe comes from 15th century French duppe, thieves’ jargon, thought to come from Latin huppe/hoopoe, an extravagantly crested bird. Duplicity comes from Latin duplicitatem “doubleness”.

I’ve never heard “gyped” or “jipped”. I’d say you were “duped”.

But that could be because I speak a dialect which features strong yod-coalescence. So “dune” and “june” are pronounced the same. So perhaps I have heard it, but simply eggcorned it into “dupe”.

Huh?

I’m apparently banned in c/guns, c/liberalgunowners and c/asklemmy

Are you sure? There’s no ban that shows up for you in the mod logs of any of those communities.

Some clients go out of their way to mark posts by a moderator in some way, though

This is something I really think Reddit did better than Lemmy tbh. Mods don’t appear special in any way, unless they specifically declare “this post is me acting as a moderator”. And only then is it highlighted green (or in some other way depending on the client). Ditto admins.

3x / week is the minimum-threshold to sustain a yt-channel

Eh? There are excellent popular YouTube channels that post way less frequently than that.

I think it would be a mistake to try and draw any clear comparison between a YouTube channel and a Lemmy community. But for YouTube, I’d say weekly is really the minimum of where you want to be while trying to grow.

fitness-workout-threshold: 3x / week sustains our health, 4x / week brings us closer to our optimal health

I ran a 3:15 marathon on 7 runs per fortnight, and a sub-18 min 5k on roughly 3 runs per week. On the other hand, I wouldn’t dare try a triathlon, even a relatively modest goal of 2:30:00 Olympic distance, on fewer than 2 runs, 2 rides, and 1 swim per week, for 5 total workouts minimum.

Exercise is even harder to compare to Lemmy than YouTube is, in my opinion. Because with exercise, the length and intensity of that exercise plays such an enormous factor.

Ludo? I haven’t played that since I was a tiny kid! I can’t say I remember much about how it’s played.