Novaling

English speaker here who knows like two phrases in Spanish and an okay amount of Japanese, yet I don’t get why English speakers don’t understand Libre.

Libre --> Liberty

Nacho Libre a movie about Lucha Libre

Are we really that bad at learning about other cultures and languages? 🫠

I get what you mean about the monetization ruining the hobby, but also realize that there would be a significant lack of creators (and therefore content) if they couldn’t make money from their channels. People were doing it for fun back then and they could afford to since they didn’t have to worry about high quality, well produced videos. Even today, plenty of people join YT to make content without the idea of trying to make it rich or make a job out of it.

I watch mostly gaming content online, and I feel that a lot of these YouTubers wouldn’t make content if they weren’t getting paid, especially for those who are livestreamers and VTubers who’s whole life depends on subs and spending money on them.

I think it’s justified that these creators want to be paid for their work, as these quality videos take teams of people and hours of editing and love put into them. You can still love your hobby and also want to get paid for the mass amount of effort it takes to do so.

So the shitposts, fan clips, video essays, art memes, gossip channels, etc. would still exist, yes, but some of the longer content that needs higher production would just tank. Stuff like gameplays, cooking videos, makeup tutorials, etc., at least in my mind.

I want Peertube to succeed without needing ads, but I just find that extremely hard and unrealistic to do. Maybe if online culture shifted entirely from ads to sponsorships instead, creators would go to Peertube, but that would require us to actually use these codes and pay money to said sponsors for them to make money. Plus, sponsorships are the new ads, which is why I use sponsorblock, defeating the purpose.

Ehhh, I feel it’s not just that.

Yeah, people don’t think centralized media is an issue, and thus don’t join Fediverse, causing it to be a little dead and discourages others from using it as an alternative.

However, YT is a job for the thousands that create content on there, and reasonably so, they need money to make said content and pay bills. Which means ads, cause be real, most people (including me) don’t wanna join a Patreon to see their content. I just can’t think of many creators who I love enough to drop consistent money on them, never mind several at once.

Lemmy doesn’t need to be monetized to entice people, because Reddit wasn’t built on that (karmawhoring gets you no money). Even pixelfed could make it as an alternative, because creators aren’t paid by ads or Insta themselves, they get money from sponsorships and promoting their shops.

But YT? It’s built to make money from putting in ads. So unless creators lived off of sponsors alone and the few who subscribe to Patreon, they’re shit outta luck if they join Peertube.

EDIT: Completely forgot the server side of it, but was reminded of that fact by this comment on the Degoogle community about YT:

YouTube is expensive as all fuck to run. This is why alternatives will never take off unless they have a solid monetization model (e.g. floatplane). Sorry, but people on home internet with 100 down and 30 up aren’t going to be able to host peertube nodes and stream 4k video to more than a couple people. Text and music work well decentralized, but people start to become a lot less able to contribute when hosting costs become hundreds per month and their home internet is saturated and barely usable instead of single digits with light traffic. This isn’t even mentioning content creators’ monetization.

I’ve definitely put in way more (very worthwhile) effort into Fediverse apps than I ever would have for regular centralized social media. No algorithm is truly a blessing, but feels a dash like a curse because even though I religiously use and follow tags to find content, I still am not getting the stuff I truly want to see. I love fanart, fanfic, fan content in general of anime and games, but most of interests have dead or 1 person talking tags. Finding accounts who aren’t on your instance is a pain in the in the ass, since there accounts might be secretly hidden from me due to the servers not interacting yet. So even when I do like an artist’s pic, the rest still don’t show up because the server is still grabbing info…

Pixelfed is especially bad for this, discovery is hard with other instances, and god forbid you follow someone from mastodon. Some mastodon accounts seem to appear on the app, but some others don’t even show up in my follow list. I do use Pixelix as a client which is a tad better, and yet some mastodon accounts still glitch it.

But those problems literally don’t exist on places like Tumblr, which is what I use in replacement of Instagram due to the fact that finding artists and fanart is far more easier, and I can’t live without that content. I’ve made an account on a misskey instance (I know enough Japanese to not be miserable on there) but the UX also scares me and I have no idea how to actually find the art I want because they’re on other instances and some of the biggest servers have signups blocked to non-JP accounts (even with VPN).

Places like Lemmy have it easy, following communities and users is no sweat, since they’re all little micro hubs like Reddit anyway. But literally ever other service is WAY more effort than reg social media.

So once we get more people, and make it easier to follow other instances, I’ll be living the dream~

So much crazy shit has happened this year that for an honest second, I was dead set in believing this was real. I feel like there are some people that are this desperate. But unfortunately I’m cursed with the power of reading for more than 10 seconds.

I have no idea if Betterbird is actually better than regular Thunderbird, but I use that cause people said so and I read about it a bit. If it does die I guess I’ll switch to Thunderbird, just a little cautious about Mozilla after the privacy policy fiasco.

Betterbird is in flathub too which is great for newbies like me.

I mean yeah, it’s still pretty much in beta rn.

Not ur fault or anything but I’m a little tired of the people who keep questioning loops and pixelfed on being open source and federated. Like, it’s coming/already happened bro, just chill.

People keep being like “Is Pixelfed FOSS yet?” When there’s literally several 3rd party apps available for the service already (I use Pixelix). Loops app is in beta on Android and iOS, it’ll be open source when it’s not absolute dogwater to run (ngl the UI scroll is painful).

But like it just got funding and new members last week, it will be fully FOSS soon enough…