I’ll give it a try, but yeah very disappointed

Good intentions, but I would be wary of anything not official like foldingathome or boinc (both great projects I recommend)

The reason is other people are horrible, and while your intentions are good, it’s significant risk. Lemmy had a csam attack a while ago and I immediately moved my instance to the cloud because I learned that if I even accidentally hosted anything it means immediate seizure, self hosting it means they plow through my door and yank the servers.

Tor nodes, peertube, you open yourself up to that risk

Definitely. Just the only way I can think of to actually prevent it

Not a lawyer, but the only thing I can think of is if you incorporated and then banned anything like that in the area - but that’s a massive amount of lift I’m pretty sure

That guy is the woooorst

Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading

It did?

we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match their browsing habits and online needs.

So other things no one asked for?

It’s astounding how stupid that decision was. Fakespot, quite literally a device to help deter people from buying products, was gobbled up by way too much money by Mozilla - who - apparently wanted it to make profit? How?! Why?! Why did they even buy it?

I think it was just executive idiocy. They searched for extensions with the term privacy in them, bought it, and thought it would make their product worth more. I’m getting really tired of companies just sunsetting products the instant they don’t make money.

We really need an open version of fakespot.

God damnit so they bought Fakespot, an extension that actually did good, hiding fake botted reviews and reanalyzing them - and now they’re killing it. It was literally an extension to help prevent unnecessary buying. Why the hell did they even buy it?

We acquired Fakespot in 2023 to help people navigate unreliable product reviews using AI and privacy-first tech. While the idea resonated, it didn’t fit a model we could sustain.

Then why did you buy it you idiots?!

I think a good chunk of them are just confused by going to join-lemmy and not be given a sign up in their face. Sure, we know that about 5 seconds of reading comprehension skill would get them where they want to go, but the vast majority of users don’t have that. Look how many people will walk up to a cash register/till with a sign on it that says “credit card only” and then be confused that they don’t take cash. Most people don’t read anymore.

Idk, I’ve heard things about HooliChat… Didn’t their stream go down in the middle of a big title fight?

Maybe, but I believe in Occam’s razer. The simplest solution is probably correct.

The average user is incredibly lazy. Insanely lazy. Reddit has taught them that they should be just spoonfed content constantly with no assistance. People aren’t used to going out to find communities anymore. To them even these basic concepts are then “frustrating” and “complex”. It’s unfortunate, but that’s really how lazy they are.

They can’t go to the search bar, type in television, and hit subscribe, it’s literally too much for them.

I know a lot of younger folks will be angry at this, but I personally think this is a good thing. Cell phones were taking off when I was just getting through high school and the difference was palpable socially. Immediately conversations stopped happening in person, people started cyber bullying, there was less actual in person communication.

School is the only time in your life you will have friends in close proximity. I desperately miss the ability to go find my friends in the same building, to get off school and go hang out afterwards. Having friends as an adult is just hard, life gets busy, everyone moves away, you don’t have that daily thing that gets you together with them. You have work, but as soon as work is over the last thing you want to do is hang out with friends.

So yeah, I’m all for it. Tiktok, social media, messaging will all be there for you after school is over for the day, but while you’re there you’re experiencing something you never will get to again. Maybe I don’t like the pouches, but I’m all for actualizing where you are

So they have rounds of layoffs, staff feel less secure in their role, and they’re surprised that knowledgeable and easily employable experts are leaving for more stable roles?

I run Bazzite, primarily gaming for everything, added jellyfin as a non steam app. Works pretty well. Wish jellyfin had a slightly better interface but overall decent.

Most everything works with the controller, and for anything that doesn’t steam will emulate a keyboard and mouse for, but I keep a keyboard next to it just in case

It’s how Hulu started too, it was a magical time. Watch 1 30 second ad before each episode.

I’m glad physical media is starting to make a comeback. I know people who kept Netflix for well over 5 years just for friends “so they could watch it whenever they wanted”. Never thought about buying the discs. “They’re so expensive”.

120 for all the seasons forever, or (at the time) 14 a month for 5 years, which is $840. I’m sure there were other things to watch time to time, but shit adds up folks. Just go buy the blurays of TNG

Agreed, these are two different things meant for two different purposes. At this point nothing beats audiobookshelf

This is another great example of pidgeonholing a decent idea into the wrong tech. Lemmy is federated, but is meant to be an open messageboard style of communication. This would be better suited for an actual chat/audio protocol, like Matrix or XMPP.

Check out the owncast communities instead. Self hosted federated streaming, mostly us Linux nerds

K, that’s your opinion. I think it’s fun asking my assistant do things.