I finally got my account working, it's very nice.federation isn't there yet but idc I miss vine and byte. loops is basically at parity with those two.
YouTube can't even keep up with the amount of 4k and 8k video being fed into it.what you're seeing with ads is them trying to reduce their burden.
I'm finally got it working, looks great! federation isn't there yet but I'll take it over the mastodon UI for video playback.
the concept of more than one website is so challenging for plebs.use both and please don't bridge bsky to the fedi.
maybe when I first started 15 years ago it was like this.now I have a community that will follow me on whatever bullshit instance I create because I got a clever domain name.
the astroturfing is happening but don't fall into the trap of thinking that makes it less real. astroturfing works or they wouldn't do it.
if it's not social media or just media then it's likely messenger apps. they're sure as fuck not getting it from print media.
I'm not seeing a source to check what they define as social media but I'm gonna just call bullshit in general.20 percent of people get their news. full stop. most people dgaf.
all of my Chromebooks are worse now than when I got them. Android ARC is broken, Linux containers mounts are broken, manifest V3 is killing anything else.
they dont really eat mosquitos, tho.that's always the first example I hear people use and its annoying, like mosquitos.
that's a weird way to spell chatgpt.