What’s bullshit about content creators? I enjoy watching documentaries from The History Channel or The Learning Channel. If someone does a bunch of research and self-publishes a documentary, they’re somehow less valid?

The article isn’t about anybody “making money off the fediverse”. It’s about finding a way to make the fediverse viable, considering that everybody wants to use it, but nobody wants to donate.

Thanks for bringing it up. Nobody likes to talk about money in the Fediverse, but it’s a fact of life.

I’ve stopped making Peertube videos lately mainly because I got tired of donating. We’ve got to come up with a better solution.

Yeah, I’ve got my own pump too. Great purchase.

In warm weather, it might last all summer. In the winter, I can go maybe 3 months before the low pressure warning comes on. I’ll get new valve stems next time I get tires. For some reason, that hadn’t really occurred to me.

I hate that. My car has a leaky back tire. It’s been like that since I bought it, and continued after I replaced all the tires.

Wow, that’s huge. When Vlemmy went under, it was the 16th largest, so about the size of Feddit.nl or Pawb.social today.

I remember hearing about it. How big was it, in comparison to the others?

I heard about Lemmy.one, but I didn’t know Kbin was gone.

No, I’m talking about instances that just disappeared without a trace. Maybe I’m just unlucky. (or maybe I’m bad luck for instance owners)

I love the Shin and Buldak brands. I could probably eat ramen every day, but I keep seeing articles about how refined, bleached flour is linked to heart disease. We just can’t have anything nice.

Damn. I’ve been looking for some decent whole-wheat ramen for ages. I can’t believe it’s not more popular.

Little Bobby Tables nods approvingly.

(an old XKCD joke)

Finally, a chance to cash in on my bored lemmings.

also !linux4noobs@lemmy.world and !linuxquestions@lemmy.zip.

Just Peertube. I’ve been orphaned from my Mastodon instance and I don’t think I’m going to sign up for another one.

As long as I can disable it or opt out of it, I don’t mind. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I don’t want videos recommended to me.

With Youtube, it’s not a big deal because I never log in there, I browse in private mode and set firefox to delete cookies. So when I go to Youtube, I just get a blank page with no recommendations.

But with Peertube, I need to login to get full functionality (federated search, etc). So I would need an option to turn off video recommendations or whatever.

As a computer guy, I can appreciate that working with data is cool - there’s a lot of neat stuff you can determine from it. As a user, it creeps me out. If I went my favorite restaurant, and the waitress recommended something based on the last 5 times I ate there, I would stop going to that restaurant.

My pet peeve is people downvoting in communities they aren’t subscribed to about posts they aren’t interested in. They just sort by new, and when they see something they don’t like, they smash that downvote button without even looking at the post or contents.

Part of it is because we all have unlimited votes; people vote without thinking. It would be different if everyone had a finite number of votes to use. And you get awarded a few votes for making a comment or post. Maybe award extra votes for commenting in small communities.

This would serve 2 purposes. 1.) People would use their votes a lot more thoughtfully. 2.) It would encourage people to comment and post more.

The downside is that someone could set up a bot to spam posts and comments into a dead community just to rack up votes.

Stuff like this is why I don’t get an Xbox account.

Conflict: Middle East Political Simulator link

Probably obscure if you’re under 50.