Ah…Yeah, that’s what I get for skimming. Tbh it’s a little confusing, but thankfully it’s not stuff viewers need to know necessarily.

Peertube is like an alternative site to youtube. It’s a different place to post your video (you can’t use it to watch YouTube videos to my knowledge)

This is mostly right, I think I’d only clarify that it’s not a singular site, much like Lemmy isn’t, as instead it’s more site software to spin up a YouTube-like video hosting site. Also you’re right that you can’t use it to watch videos as you might via Piped/Invidious, unless the creator has also posted their video to a PeerTube site/instance.

Last little point that’s not super important to know for regular folks is that it’s not using bittorrent for helping distribute video loads, it’s WebRTC. Still peer to peer, just a different approach to it.

Ghost Commander may work for this. I’ve not tried sftp myself, but on opening it I do see the option there, so it might be worth a try.

ty, be sure to tend to u and ur pets’ bone-connected (if so) eating assistants

In the spirit of this space, I think folks might dig MeroChat as it’s free, ad-free, and even open source. It’d be fun to see it used some more, I think.

There’s also Wusoup, which is free and ad-free, but it’s not open source and requires account creation. Due to the last point I’ve not tried it so I can’t speak to its quality, but it may be worth a try.

No harmony /s

But I don’t want to seek out shows. There’s very little interesting stuff being released anymore. They ignore making products for groups in favour of making products for everyone, which results in products for no one. I cannot cope with that.

It seems like some other replies are glossing over this, and here’s the thing: you gotta seek out interesting stuff. Many of the big tech algorithms are focused on the latest, hottest things, sure with some personalization tossed in related to your interests, but still more related to new and popular.

You want a heap of interesting stuff, you can’t keep following what’s trending, you gotta set out and seek out stuff related to your own interests. Not in a physical sense either, but poking around online.

Follow a Wikipedia rabbit hole. Find a director/artist you like, look at what else they’ve been involved with or done creatively, check that out however you can, then look at those they’ve collaborated with and if you like their stuff, check out their collaborators’ work, follow the influences and inspirations. You will hit some duds, but you may also find some real gems the algorithms never woulda served up anytime soon.

What’s more, the further back you dig, the likelier you are to come across that really weird niche work that some folks started out with, that got eyes on them before they may have “sold out” by working on bigger, more mainstream work.

Beware that iirc, unlike Tor an[d] I2P, Freenet leaks your IP, so I recommend to use a VPN.

If it’s using basic peer-to-peer tech, I suspect you may be right. Been awhile since I looked into it, and as I recall it wasn’t really built for privacy so much as another way to share info with few limitations (hence the free in freenet), so it’d make sense if it did.

Has anyone thought about how we can bring more people over to the Fediverse? My friends and family are all still on the Big Tech platforms like FB and Insta, and I doubt I will be able to convince them to switch over to a Fediverse platform, especially if they themselves don’t see any of their connections using the platform too. How does the Fediverse community plan on attracting more users over?

This is a common question from newcomers, and it’s not necessarily a bad one, just worth being aware of this to better understand some of the responses you may see. Something else to keep in mind is that there is no collective, united Fediverse community in the way that you might sorta see on some bigger tech platforms (albeit even on those, there’s not really a singular community either).

What this means is that there’s no combined community effort from folks across the Fediverse to attract new users, and since it’s all loosely connected communities driving it all, there’s no market push to popularize them as you’re more apt to see from the tech industry. In fact, if you wander into some parts of the Fediverse, you’ll find some folks far happier to keep their communities small and to themselves for a variety of reasons, sometimes conflating the tech and their community (i.e. a popularization of Lemmy as tech wouldn’t mean their little Lemmy community instance had to link up with every other one).

That said, there are also plenty of folks around here interested in the question and planning/discussing drawing in more folks. Some of those discussions being about improvements to the technology to make it less jank and comfortable for less technically inclined users, others about how to present it without getting in the weeds of the tech details, and some just by trying to post interesting/entertaining content to keep folks interested past a glance. There’s as many ways to approach it as there are Fediverse communities, and so there’s not really been any one way that people have been going about it.

Huh, I think I’d heard some parts of this song without realizing it. Not a bad tune!

Yo wait, the ocean exists and it’s a world’s worth? I thought it was like, a mythological universe-spanning body!

Cat’s trying a new makeup routine

The ocean exists??

This is going to sound dead obvious, but I’d honestly recommend some Intro to Philosophy/Logic/Ethics books, e.g. Logic: A Very Short Introduction or The Logic Manual. I know you’re not necessarily looking at logic specifically, btw, but it’s one of the regular recommendations with philosophy more generally, especially if you branch out to other thinkers.

Also a somewhat common introductory text that I personally didn’t care for is Sophie’s World, which acts as a narrative historical overview of Western philosophy. If you want that sort of thing you may be just as well with a text like A Little History of Philosophy, which might be available via your library.

Finally, for ethics, you might look to Hornbook Ethics and/or Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? Besides A Little History of Philosophy, if memory serves all of these I’ve linked to have at one point or another been required texts for different philosophy and ethics courses depending on where one attends, so in reading these independently you’d basically be getting some intro level course education on the cheap.

Honestly though, I’d say reading the primary texts as you’re doing isn’t a terrible way to go about it, as that’s what many philosophy courses would have you do anyway. What I would recommend alongside that is the same as I’d recommend for any older text then, which is to read up on the historical context to get a better sense of what may have influenced their writing, how they were received by their peers and broader community (if they were noticed at all during their life), and develop your understanding from there.

Sorry if this is a bit much, but I hope it helps! Be sure to check your local libraries for any of these before buying them btw, as they may have hard copies available despite not having digital copies. Also remember that college/university libraries may be an option too, albeit likely more costly if they do offer a library card to borrow materials.

I dunno which may be easiest, but if you’d like to know some of your options, this Wikipedia page may be a good place to start.

The trails or the things leaving the trails? In either case I think they may be aircraft contrails, but I’m not sure going off the image alone.

We’re not in /c/technology nor a tech themed instance, it’s a showerthought post (so the vibe should be casual), maybe learn to read a room?

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Also, it’s not as if I was speaking authoritatively, I was speaking to my experiences and I was upfront about the limits of my knowledge. Instead of bothering to constructively correct me, you flatly went, “Yeah, no.” and your entire entry into the convo was pretty condescending for no apparent reason.

I’ve mainly done this with hashtags, so I may be off if it differs somewhat for keywords, but I’m pretty sure it works as a logical OR.

So if I put a bunch of hashtags in a filter for sports like #sports, #football, #hockey, etc. if a post contains any one of those tags, it should filter it for me. The nice part is you can adjust it so that it either completely hides the filtered results so they don’t clutter up your feeds, or hide with warning and the name of the filter on the warning notice, which allows you to click & review the post to see whether you really wanted it caught by your filter or not.

If you’re just starting out you’d probably want to run it with warnings first to get a sense of whether it’s working as desired, and if not adjust as needed.

Thankfully folks tend to be pretty respectful of spoiler concerns and will specifically say spoilers below when writing about them, use content warnings to hide them, and use hashtags like #[GameName]spoilers, which can help when making filters. It’s not ideal, but if I really don’t want to see spoilers for something, I’ll filter by its name and hashtag and set it not to expire (you can set filters to last only a week if you like, so you don’t forget to disable them).

If it’s not there, one may also try checking the about page or the instance’s Meta/Announcements/Status/etc. magazine(s), as it ultimately depends on where and if the admin has decided to make the info available so far as I can tell after glancing over a few Kbinstances.

As an example: kbin.cafe doesn’t have the admin info/profile on the about or contact page, but they’re the owner of the CafeMeta magazine.

I think it’s less to do with tolerating stupid questions and more to do with the fact it was against their rules…Rule 5 in particular. If you waited, you might’ve been able to eke by on their joke/troll question day.