• @[email protected]
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      I really want to love peertube and use it but the transition is hard. I feel bad for “wasting” server space and compute and when I view the video on peertube I’m making my favorite creators gain less traction on YouTube which directly affects their income and growth.

      • Dariusmiles2123
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        1315 days ago

        Some of them can be supported through Patreon and they’re getting way more money than through YouTube.

        But it’s through that it lacks content and it’s also difficult to find content on peertube.

          • @[email protected]
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            1115 days ago

            It needs a recommendation algorithm. Search is simply not enough to find videos you may like.

            Search would be enough if it had the content library of YouTube.

          • Dariusmiles2123
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            214 days ago

            I still have to really try it, but last time I typed « PlayStation » and there was almost no result…maybe it’s just the lack of content though…

            • lemmyreader
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              314 days ago

              PlayStation

              Hmm, I’ve tried, 251 results found: 244 videos

              • Dariusmiles2123
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                112 days ago

                I was talking about channels, reviewing games and so on.

                Not the odd homemade video…

                Something that you could follow long term to keep being informed, like IGN or gamespot for instance.

                • lemmyreader
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                  but last time I typed « PlayStation » and there was almost no result…maybe it’s just the lack of content though…

                  Thanks for the heads up ;-)

          • Dariusmiles2123
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            Give what you can and if you can’t it’s also okay.

            I’m only giving 1$ a month to the Linux Experiment, but, according to him, that’s way more than what he would get from me watching his videos on YouTube.

            I’m also donating 100$ a year to many open source projects, but I might have to give up because of financial troubles too…

      • @[email protected]
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        Honestly, I’m murdering the productivity of every channel I watch anyways with uBlock origin and sponsorBlock, so I don’t think it’d be much worse

        • @[email protected]
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          That’s not as bad because the amount of money they get for 1 view is less than a cent and the sponsor still pays. But if youtube recommends me a video from a creator I like who has only 5k subs and I don’t watch it because I saw it on peertube youtube might think the video is bad because the channels audience isn’t watching it.

      • Mike Wooskey
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        They could choose a different business model to get revenue from their videos that doesn’t rely on google or the current model where personal privacy is the commodity. It could also be a difficult transition. Is it worth it to them? To you?

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          Shame that all those business models require US centric payment processors to actually get paid.

          I’m not in the US and my choices for actually getting money into my bank account are PayPal or Stripe, neither of which have policies that permit the distribution of electronic data or alternatively donations without being a registered charity.

          Neither has dispute resolution procedures that go beyond “you broke the rules and we’re keeping your money”, and “sorry, that was a fraudulent card and we’re taking the money back, plus a fee, and the fraudster keeps the goods”, and finally “our word is final and we’re now closing your account without disclosing why”.

          So, yeah, good luck with that.

          Source: I’ve spent months looking for alternatives and as far as I can tell, they just don’t exist.

    • lemmyreader
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      You know that PeerTube has a build-in video import tool ? It can import Youtube / Dailymotion / Vimeo channels or playlists.

      https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use/channel-sync

      I think that downloading YouTube videos is technically illegal unless you have been the uploader of the videos. But with PeerTube you can create private channels which you could share with friends or maybe even paid subscribers I guess.

      • Krafting
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        Oh I didn’t know that! Do you know any open instance that has this feature enabled ?

        • lemmyreader
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          Don’t know. I guess you could ask the admin of friendly instances, or self-hosted or ask friends to self-host. Self-hosting a PeerTube server is not that difficult and “Big Storage” on-line is not that expensive anymore.

    • Draconic NEO
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      I agree, peer tube’s biggest issues so far besides the storage or the fact that there are almost no peer tube servers which offer user accounts (which isn’t needed explicitly to watch videos but makes the experience much better), and also the fact that there aren’t really any good apps to use it with that aren’t outdated or abandoned.

    • @[email protected]
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      That’s a good one. The photomarket on reddit was the main reason I was hesitant to shut down my account. And eBay is way too expensive and unfair for sellers.

  • @[email protected]
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    LinkedIn.

    It’s one of the last social media I have. Benefits outweigh cons, but I still would like to get rid of it

    • XNX
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      What are the benefits of Linkedin? Ive never seen anyone mention it positively

      • @[email protected]
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        I found my latest job there. Some companies tend to mostly post in LinkedIn rather than other job boards. I guess it’s probably country dependent

      • Lumberjacked
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        I do B2B hardware and software projects. I hate sales and advertising but I will post something I’m working on about once a week on my personal LinkedIn. It’s amazing how many customers reference that stuff when I have my first meeting.

      • @[email protected]
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        214 days ago

        It can be like Facebook if you don’t know how to use it. It can suck.

        But I found all my jobs thanks to this website so I can’t complain.

      • mesamune
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        I’ve never received a job directly from it, but I’ve had prospective employers search my profile.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’ve been wanting to create this but I don’t have enough experience making federated anything. Which parts of LinkedIn would you want replicated the most?

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      I wish they had an official presence in the Fediverse.

      I kind of miss seeing the tweets on the homepage and think to myself that Mastodon or one of its forked versions would be the ideal replacement.

  • @nutsack
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    i would have the entire internet go back to being protocols instead of proprietary platforms

    • @TubularTittyFrog
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      I’d rather we just ditch algorithms and go back to it being random/chronological feeds.

      • @[email protected]
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        I wish algorithms were opt-in, transparent, and allowed choice (whether by choosing an algorithm over another, or customizing parameters).

        If this were the case, I’d have no issue with algos.

  • @ChasingEnigmaOP
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    Booru-style Image Boards like rule34

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    Forums, facebook groups (but not owned by meta), Letterboxd, Amazon (without amazon)

    • @[email protected]
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      Lemmy is kinda close to forums and groups. But I do agree I prefer that format over the Reddit-like format.

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    All of em, really. I don’t see much of a reason why the vast majority of platforms wouldn’t benefit from it, except for maybe an argument around it allowing the creation of larger and larger echo chambers, but that’s probably fine as long as it’s managed to only be to a certain degree.

    • @Blum0108
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      What is the practical difference between that and what we have here? Genuinely curious.

    • Draconic NEO
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      It’s not really that fundamentally different from the idea of Lemmy, the interface is just different but the idea of having communities and posts in the communities is the same.

      The thing that would be tricky and would probably have the most friction would be anonymous posting since that’s where things get really ugly regarding moderation and user conduct, since a good amount are just going to be spammers and many others will be trolls and malicious users.

        • Draconic NEO
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          Yeah that would be very difficult to implement safely, and probably wouldn’t be worth the effort since the Federated model means that signing up for an account somewhere on the Fediverse is much easier already.

          Anonymous posting might have been a necessary evil on the early internet before you had all these Federated servers, but nowadays having other servers fills the role of granting easier access since you can sign up to another one where that process may be easier.

          • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼
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            The only way of anonymously posting I could imagine on a federated image board would be to use an account on some other Fediverse platform (e.g. Mastodon, Firefish, Mbin, etc.) and to have the name of the account hidden for anonymous posts. That could maybe work, idk. Would be pretty cool tho

            • Draconic NEO
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              I don’t think that would really work since in order to make it anonymous it would need to be hidden from the other servers as well which would cause issues with moderation since if it’s never dealt with On the origin server a person could cause a lot of trouble with it, yeah you could have so that it would only be visible by moderators and admins but that also doesn’t really work if admins can view it since anyone can set up a server.

  • distant plant
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    @[email protected] DeviantArt - I like separation between art, literature, and regular status updates, and the ability to group posts in your inbox into folders by who posted them. Or, more realistically, any of the various furry sites that work on a similar model and have less potential for cultural conflict.

  • @[email protected]
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    813 days ago

    The only thing that keeps me tied to any Meta platform is the Facebook marketplace. It is the de facto method of buying and selling used goods in a sustainable fashion.

    If there was any alternative, especially a federated one, I’d switch over in a heartbeat.

    • kath
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      Is there even a genealogy site that is not owned by the Genealogical Mafia i.e. Ancestry? AFAIK WikiTree hasn’t sold out yet.