I think eventually, some people will be OK with paying 5 dollars per month for a YouTube competitor that is better than the original. Much like Kagi is doing for search engines. It won’t be for the majority since they still expect free stuff and no ads, which doesn’t work.

I’m wondering about her reason for not using one too. What is the advantage?

She thinks the web can’t exist without ads? It can, because it did once.

Just another reason to not have a YouTube account. If you use Newpipe, you can subscribe to feeds anyway without any YouTube account.

Yeah that’s what we are having here too, huge cpu usage and issues with outgoing federation. Sounds spot on.

It’s ad blocking and entire operating systems, or computers configured in any way they don’t like.

If this goes through, they can force you to install any plugins they wish, or disable any plugins they wish. Or make sure you don’t run Linux and only Windows or Mac. They can force you to have your camera on. They can do anything since they make the rules.

No innovation will take place. Competing browsers or software will not be allowed or manipulated into marketed as “unsafe”.

This is a takeover of the open web stack as we know it.

Nothing is free. How would they make money as a company to pay employees and pay hosting bills?

All these big tech companies are free exactly because they are preditory on users.

Pay for good email like Fastmail or Proton.

Cost of doing business.

The Fastmail calendar is pretty good. Just a random page about them: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/shared-calendars/

It’s not too hard. The most important things are web search and email. I still use Google Maps. But I don’t want my private emails and searches at a company who is user hostile and preditory.

Basically they have made themselves kings and everyone else are peasants. Now they are dividing the land between them.

It may be the last few years of the free web because of Google. Their goals are clear.

Please switch to Firefox, another search engine and another email provider…

Being born rich is almost certainly a requirement to start with. There must be a lot of non famous brilliant people without a public voice like the clowns, Musk and Trump and Zuck and all the others.

I loved it personally. Tech is in a awful state right now and it’s correct to try and joke about it while we all lose decades of what previous generations built up as protection against these bastards.

I don’t know if you understand what military funded means… It’s basically the military paying these guys to make something they can use in the military.

There is no doubt in my mind at least that all cute robots, useful AI, and other new things are just the public tip of the iceberg kind of a thing, to make people think it’s something positive and not be afraid.

The most advanced things will be used by law enforcement and military to control and monitor the populations in secret.

So while I like tech, I’m also convinced that humans are going to use it to make the planet horrible to live on, to the degree that “don’t get children” is the best advice ever.

Easy target since it’s so big. I still think it’s madness to have so many users on one instance. But I guess people need to learn…

It’s not about that… I don’t know why it’s so hard to understand the psychology here. They feel strongly that something is wrong and want to fight it. That’s it.

Again, not supporting it at all but you should at least understand that they are not so different from us. They just grew up around hate for these things and continue to feel hate for these things.

If they would have grown up in a different environment, I don’t think they would even care about any of this.

Yeah I understand. I had an empty server to run it against and then it worked fine.

Ok but the Lemmy ansible install is doing all of this for you. :)

Still, it’s a nice read and can act as a foundation for anyone who wants to do it from scratch.

They are tarded actually, in constant need to be in the center of attention, and people talking about them. Seemingly no good human qualities whatsoever, but a lot of intellectual problem solving skills, which they apply only to make themselves richer and more powerful.

They could apply their problem solving skills and money to improve life for humans on the planet but they don’t have the consciousness to do so.

What a waste.

At least people in open source are trying to work together to build an alternative to the walled gardens and preditory ad platforms we call the internet today.

I actually tried the official app and it just pissed me off.

Just a couple of more days now before they turn off access. Nice.