Youāre missing my point. Most working class people donāt have the time/resources to look into all of these alternatives. This is like telling someone who shops at Wal-Mart that if they looked harder, they could find a more ethical place to shop without realizing that the reason why they shop at Wal-Mart is because they can barely afford the time or gas to get there and back.
I understand that reading these things, often full of judicial jargon, is something undesirable, but not doing so is the same as signing a loan in a bank, without reading the conditions, it can give many unpleasant surprises and consequences.
I agree. And similar to bank loans, TOS are often predatory and reliant on working class people not understanding what theyāre getting into.
I think youāre blaming the victims of a very predatory practice. In fact, Iād venture to say that even you donāt 100% know what youāre getting into when youāve read various TOSs. Given the fact that theyāre often written by corporate lawyers with the intention of obscuring any nefarious intentions, I think you should try to understand the Sisyphean task youāre assigning working class people with very limited time and resources.
To quote Jerry Seinfeldā¦
āHave you read that thing? Itās like the Declaration of Independence.ā"
Point is,
a) most people donāt have the time to read the TOS;
b) most people donāt understand half of what a TOS even talks about; and
c) people have fewer and fewer alternatives to these companies because this sort of thing is becoming so common.
Depends on a lot of factors related to the environment, i.e. pollution types, viability of water treatment, food sources and what their growth is reliant on, equipment and what their maintenance is reliant on (i.e. parts/consumables ideally not reliant on regions in heavy conflict).
Iāve never been in a war zone but I have been in one of the countryās worst natural disasters (along with several smaller ones) and what I learned from those experiences is not to trust anyone who refuses to understand the importance of fluid decision-making in complex life or death scenarios, instead rigidly adhering to a fixed plan they had developed long before the emergency situation happened. It ends up slowing them down far more than anything and creates loads of avoidable problems in the name of consistency.
Thatās not to say one shouldnāt have a plan but if it relies on taking route A to escape and route A is on fire, the people who blindly say "STICK TO THE PLAN" without recognizing that the plan requires adaptation, theyāre not to be trusted because they possess a theoretical understanding of the situation, not a practical understanding.
Far too often people who confidently think their plan A will work, end up dying because they foolishly downplayed the need for adapting/abandoning their plan in the face of impending doom. Wildfires in particular have resulted in entire families burning to death-- wealthy families who were convinced their various expensive, extensive precautionary methods were foolproof but learned the hard way that mother nature can very quickly make a mockery of the measures humans take.
Thaank you, glad Iām not the only one who feels lost trying to navigate Peertubeā¦
I wouldnāt consider myself a ācontent creatorā but I do post YouTube videos and I wouldnāt be upset at all if people watched my videos through something like FreeTube or NewPipe. I just want people to see/hear what Iām posting.
The fact that it would be an absurdly privileged thing for me to do and would involve me leaving behind a lot of people I can help. I understand other people have their own valid reasons to move and I donāt judge them for it but for me personally, I donāt think it would be the right thing to do.
I have no clue how to make a PeerTube account. Iām trying to do that now and itās asking me to choose an āinstanceā without explaining what that is. Then when I click the topics relevant to my videos, either no instances show up or those that do have a puny amount of users like 30.
edit: The video finally made it to Odysee. It is here
Yeah Iām looking into PeerTube now and itās pretty confusing compared to YouTube or Odysee. Like itās telling me to choose an instance, without even explaining what an instance is⦠and then when I click the relevant topics⦠no instances pop up.
I really wish YouTubeās alternatives could understand why stuff like this ends up being a massive barrier for regular people. This is frustrating. I managed to upload my video to Odysee but now itās stuck in this nebulous āconfirmingā page. So disappointing.
Not often enough. I need to remind myself that reddit is a ridiculously ⬠space that is so far from being genuinely understanding of the shit POCs deal with. I actually feel bad for not going on Lemmy as much-- I just wish the site was more popping.