Not in the slightest. Even with the last decade of ‘pfft, why pirate when we have Spotify?!1’ dialogues, music piracy never slowed down for a moment.
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Not in the slightest. Even with the last decade of ‘pfft, why pirate when we have Spotify?!1’ dialogues, music piracy never slowed down for a moment.
Because:
A) New Pipe is a phone app only.
B) People view YouTube on devices other than phones.
C) People view more websites than just YouTube, on which they also want to block ads.
Tons. Still loving Margaret from 2009ish who asked me if ‘we own the Google’ and wouldn’t take ‘no’.
Also, fuck apple simps.
Former Applecare rep here: Say it again, Trick!
Having never heard of this nor read the article, I assume it was the 2020’s equivalent of the old AIM chatbots that were amusing to talk to for 11 seconds before realizing you had better shit to do.
All else fails, grab yt-dlp. It’s a fork that I tend to find works better than normal youtube-dl anyway.
Kbin let’s you see it all, on a thread-by-thread/comment-by-comment basis. For example I’ll (for a moment) downvote your comment. If I check it’s activity, this is what I see. https://imgur.com/a/uTgEuUt
Favourites is upvotes, reduces are downvotes, boosts are the twitter/mastodon ‘retweet’ equivalent. Doesn’t matter what instance the comment is on, kbin, lemmy, we can see them for posts and comments. Solely on the thread. I can’t go to your profile and see a history of what and who you downvote, but if you downvoted/upvoted me right now for example, I can 100% tell who you are and which you did.
Lemmy has some bonus points which at the time when I signed up (I joined Beehaw around the same time) that Lemmy does (or didn’t) have.
Blocking domains, blocking instances (coming soon), better UI (subjectively), user styles to add extra features, each community has a “normal topics in a forum” and a “Twitter-lite” area for different post types, I believe kbin has better integration/federation with Mastodon (which I also use) compared to lemmy, along with others I’m probably forgetting. (Edit: Forgot one lol, on kbin we can see upvotes and downvotes, as well as (on a topic by topic basis) you can see who upvoted and downvoted things, which I get some people wont like, and some will like, but we also have that on kbin, and can see those stats across instances of kbin & lemmy).
I don’t follow your end of the development so Lemmy may have some of those in the pipeline, or may already have some added, but at least a month ago it was a bonus on this end. The lack of an API right now does suck since it limits the app thing, but they will have an API, several of the apps devs have already said kbin will be included when time comes, and kbin mobile is honestly real good regardless so it works out.
But kbin lets you block entire instances as a user, which is worth the tradeoff for me.
Let’s you block domains as a user. It doesn’t block the entire instance, some posts do and will still come through (as I’ve found over the weeks lol). They’ve said on the github that a feature is incoming to outright block instances, if I read correctly.
Edit: Sorry, codebase, not github: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/118#issuecomment-942720 ernests last comment.
Hopefully soon, along with an API for kbin (since I’m there and want it too lol).
That’ll be what causes Skynet to rise.