That would kill the Fediverse and other alternatives too, though, because they wouldn’t be allowed to exist by said regulations. What you’re suggesting is gonna result in vendor lock-in by making it impossible for smaller competition to comply.

I’d say good luck extending this to desktops, but MS might beat them to the punch if this becomes standardized and apps/sites start blocking alt OSes like Linux or BSD and start vendor-locking to Windows for age-gate DRM purposes.

Ahh… Amber Turd, the bed shitter.

Old phone outlet.

Damn, first legitimately good thing I’ve seen come out of that country in a while as far as legislation is concerned.

Good thing Matrix and XMPP exist as alternatives.

If I start getting straight-up locked out of Discord unless I show my face or ID, I’mma just stop using it full stop.

I mean, shit, Discord’s already getting ridiculous with their Nitro ads. No, Discord, I don’t want Nitro, stop asking me. No needs to start meaning no again.

Mud daubers or damselflies in a ‘Ghibli characters come to life’ way. Those things look like they flew straight out of a Ghibli flick.

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No prob! And if you’re maxing out any lossy codec, that’s the point where your only intention is to make a file smaller than you can do with lossless, while still having no audible degradation between that lossy copy and the uncompressed or lossless original file, although you could also settle for transparency in the case of codecs like Opus or even Vorbis where their max bitrate is higher than their transparency rate for even smaller files.

In the case of older codecs like MP3, supposedly its transparency bitrate of 320kbit/s CBR is also its max bitrate, but there’s decades of debate over whether 320kbit/s CBR or V0 VBR is superior for that codec, such as this HA thread from 2008 on the matter. As for MD/ATRAC, its transparency bitrate, and also its max bitrate and the native bitrate for the MD format, is 292kbit/s CBR.

For the curious, the two bitrates for MD/ATRAC that fall below its transparency bitrate are 132kbit/s (MD LP2) and 66kbit/s (MD LP4).

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• Analog art or crafts (get your crayons out, kids, or put on your smocks because we’re painting today). My fave media personally right now are crayons, chalk, or oil pastels for drawing or water-based markers and a brush pen filled with water or watercolors or acrylics + watercolor crayons for painting currently. Like, Crayola markers are really fun to paint with when you go to blend them with a wet brush.

• If going digital, using open alternatives to the Adobe suite, I personally use a combination of RawTherapee and GIMP for editing photos because it works for me so far.

• You can still buy used older digicams that are still respectable even by modern standards, there’s plenty of old DSLRs which fit that bill, for example, even going back as far as '07 with the Sony a900 boasting a resolution that is still by all means a very respectable resolution by modern standards at 24.6MP, plus it should be able to work with the entire A-mount range even going back to legacy screw-drive lenses, let alone ‘modern’ Sony servo-drive A-mount glass.

• You could buy a bunch of CDs and rip them to FLAC, and then transcode those lossless rips to lossy copies as desired, eg. transcoding them to 160-510kbit/s* Opus copies for storage-limited devices.

*Per the HydrogenAudio KB, Opus’ transparency bitrate for music is 160-192kbit/s and the codec maxes out at 510kbit/s.

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That also probably drives the Fediverse’s adoption as well because people are tired of getting walled in by hostile corporations.

If you don’t have a lot of content to move over, and rarely post, I’m pretty happy on peertube.wtf, however there’s a 100GB limit and you can only upload 10GB a day. Meanwhile if you’re at active YTer with a lot of content, CuddlyTube also seems pretty good from a cursory glance and has no upload limits. Oh, and if you’re considering MakerTube, they’re paywalled now because of some shit going on at Hetzner, so let that be your warning for going with that instance, and spectra.video’s also considering paywalling for the same reason that MakerTube is paywalled.

You could also self-host if you have the hardware on hand or can afford the VPS to, and you have the admin skills to pull it off.

and it’s likely any project that integrates it, with be “extinguished” via legal action in the future.

That would mean killing the entire internet whose servers run Linux, because the kernel is messing with AI now.

How soon before AI is forced onto every creator on YT?

Madoff Altman is at it again.

Don’t do this, just run a Linux distro if you don’t run anything that’s vendor-locked to Windows by DRM.

I suppose you could start firing up alt nets like Freenet or like meshnets and the like assuming the worst happens to the clearnet.

If you’re a creator who still primarily or exclusively posts to Twitter after Nitter was killed off, you’re not gonna have an audience outside of Twitter anymore moving forward. Meanwhile Mastodon will let people see or even interact with your content without a Mastodon account as anyone can see a public post without an account, period, and anyone with an account on any ActivityPub or ActivityPub-compatible platform can interact with Mastodon posts.

If you want to post your own content on a public instance, you do need an account for that, though, or you can self-host.

But basically, if you’re still posting exclusively to Twitter, you won’t have an audience outside of Twitter anymore, while someone on PIxelfed could interact with a Mastodon post or vice-versa, for example.