I tend to agree. We won’t have any “content creators” because it’s so hard to monetize fedi - and that’s a good thing! Instead we have people who post stuff they like and are interested in. It’s far better system. No ads, no “influencing”.

However, it would be great if we could create a better model for sharing hosting costs somehow - bandwidth and servers are not cheap when serving video. Donations work to an extent, but it’s always a shaky system based on kindness of select few.

I know. I meant it as a potential model for income (a platform owned by creators collective), it was just an example

Surely the ability to pay for things exists already in many forms/platforms.

But one thing that’s missing is central financing from the platform itself. The “big tech” is running wild with advertising money and this is what fuels the rapid growth.

Things like Nebula seem to work (creator owned business that offers paid subscriptions), but I’m not sure how many Nebula-exclusive creators there are, I have a feeling most of them publish stuff on YouTube as well.

Mastodon and Lemmy communities work on donations, but most of them just trundle along barely covering hosting costs.

I guess, in theory, it would be possible to create a PeerTube/Loops server that monetizes everything with ads, but I’m a bit skeptical of that unless you have very deep start-up VC money behind you to get you off the ground.

We’ve had micropayment/-donation sites like Flattr, but it never took off for real.

I think the core problem is trying to make people to pay for the content/service/membership. Most don’t. I don’t think that would change even if the option was integrated into platforms.

Evolution of Homo Sapiens was inevitable which means destruction of the entire habitat and all species in it is also unavoidable.

Yeah bud, very topical

Getting really positive reviews from techbro YouTubers though

Tell me, what data does Beehaw sell to the brokers?

Or maybe we shouldn’t be allowing data collection and surveillance in the first place.

To answer to your question, no, most people don’t. And at any case, showing a screen like that is far too late in the process. If the user has decided to install Instagram, then showing them a screen like this won’t do a thing. Their mind is already made. If we want online privacy to really matter, then the question of online privacy needs to be solved higher up in political policy level in form of regulations as well as lower level in form of awareness and education. It can’t be left to be done in app installation screen by individual end-users.

Good on you for being privacy conscious though.

Their clients feed them with data. Given that Peter Thiel is behind Palantir, you can also pretty much count on all the big social media companies cooperating with them.

If we think Elon, Gates and Bezos are far-right, exploiting, scum billionaires, then Thiel is about 715 Texas sized football fields to the right of them politically. Dude is and has always been insane.

Brave (the company) has a long history of doing dodgy stuff. They are just trying to do what Google did (directing clicks to their own shit), but they’re using privacy as their marketing spiel.

If I found someone attractive, yes of course. I don’t care if you’re straight, gay, bi, trans, whatever - I’m not attracted to sex or the bits between your legs, I’m attracted to person and personality. As long as you’re confident and comfortable being you, I’ll swing anyway you want.

But due to the world we live in, lot of the time the struggle of being them so very much in their identity that they can’t talk about much else and I don’t find that very attractive, in fact quite the opposite.

I doubt it. Bandwidth and storage costs for distributed video on the scale of YouTube isn’t going to happen without some kind of monetisation beyond stray donations.

Places like Nebula have better operating models but they’re also very niche.

Bsky is just another VC financed grift though.

Enjoy life, friends, the world. You have no real obligations apart from school, you have no real worries. YOLO.

He’s the Putin kind of tankie though.

Apology would be extremely surprising. Both of the main lemmy devs are well know hard-core tankies.

Depends how you define “the Internet”. But if couple of big tier1 carriers null route their BGP, the Internet becomes more or less unusable for large parts, especially now that most of it is synonymous to 5-6 large websites and SaaS providers.

Well that was easy. Now just rule that burning oil and coal is actually just totes OK and we’re done! First in the world, completely sustainable!

Saving the planet has never been this easy!