Zaphodquixote

Could be, jerboa gets weird with formatting

Being real? Sponsor ads in video are fine by me. It's no different than tv and radio did for ages. The individual vidiots hawking whoever sponsers them just isn't an issue. It's as easy the tune out as radio spots used to be.

If YouTube's direct ads weren't fucking obnoxious, I wouldn't even object to those, but they crossed into obnoxious a decade ago with those.

It's the freaking combined wall of ads that happens when it's all together that is infuriating. You've got ads before a video, during, it, after it, splashed new below and beside it. It's just crap, and gods forbid you misclick and go back, it starts all over again.

It's supposed to be @[email protected] afaik, though I'm not sure why [email protected] wouldn't do it. The only dev I can do developing hemorrhoids.

That's a little disingenuous.

While piracy is not theft, trying to paint it as some kind of morally driven campaign for the preservation and distribution of information is bullshit.

It that was the case, piracy would be focused on a lot different files. Project Gutenberg is about preserving and sharing information. Us? We just want to bypass the capitalist bullshit part of the equation. Even that isn't true of everyone, because we otherwise wouldn't be using things like realdebrid. If we, as pirates, really want to contribute, we'd all be scanning out of print books, films, and music as soon as we found a source for it.

Up/down ratios inherently disprove the idea that piracy is some kind of noble pursuit for the vast majority of people.

And even then, you can't ignore that piracy does break the social contract where someone's efforts are rewarded in return for their contributions. If I'm making a movie, I can't be tilling my fields and harvesting crops. Neither can the actors, the sound guys, the camera guys, etc.

These creations we borrow? They represent resources no less than someone building a school, or making a map, or raising chickens. That's the fundamental contract of a society. We agree, as part of a society, that someone's efforts in a specialized, and non subsistence field will be treated as having value at least as significant as the time they could habe spent on survival tasks when society didn't dominate the entire arable planet.

It doesn't have to be remuneration in capital repayment, but don't pretend that leeching the creative proceeds of others by piracy fulfills that contract.

We can try to change the system, try to bring it down, whatever. But until then, piracy is never going to be a moral or ethical good. It's just people taking what they want because they can't afford it, or don't want to.

Multiling0

It's a very customizable keyboard. Which means that you can duplicate the layout you're used to from most others, as long as you have the patience. Alas, you have to have the patience lol.

Not that they're going to change anything at ~~Plantation Owners Tech~~ such a venerable institution.

Every time we sit on a toilet, we are connected, ass to ass, with every person on every toilet on the same sewage system. It's all just asses connected by pipes.

I don't see it becoming a thing. You might run into an instance here or there that does it, but it's going to be a very difficult market. Advertisers want to be confident in reaching people that will buy things.

That's the entire reason Google tracks the fuck out of everything. They can sell ads that are precisely targeted to maximize returns. That's part of why reddit wants to push everyone to their own app. Facebook does it, Amazon does it.

But for that to happen on lemmy, an instance can't just spool up the source and slap ads into it randomly. Nobody is going to buy ad space on a single lemmy instance without ad targeting. And it would need to be a pretty damn huge instance even then.

Since lemmy is a project from some strongly anti-capitalist people, they're never going to make it easy either. Anyone else wanting to add ads to their instance is going to have to fork it, or use a fork. And guess what's going to happen once they do.

Bye-bye federation. They'll get delisted left and right. Just as a matter of principle. Lemmy is overall very rejecting of corporate enshittification, especially right now. It will take years before the culture will shift enough for an ad based monetization to not get rejected soundly.

Also, yeah, servers have costs. But at the scale of a lemmy instance, most of the ones that are sharing their numbers are in the low thousands at the high end. The smaller ones are in the low hundreds. And that's yearly, not monthly. So, again, it'll be years before there's even a need for the kind of monetization that would make ad sales an option.

And when monetization is an issue? There's still going to be small instances that don't need it. So it isn't like the fediverse is going to collapse into a corporate shit spiral as long as it's on open source software, federated, and so (relatively) easy to set up.

I'm not against ads. Never have been, though im damn sure against shitty ads that get in the way of doing what I'm on the site/service to do. It's why I don't use YouTube unless it's revanced; the ads are too damn invasive. I grew up with nothing but broadcast tv until well into the eighties because cable didn't reach here. And even after that, cable had plenty of ads.

But lemmy? If there's ever any significant ad presence, it'll be a decade or more from now.

Beans and rice, beans and rice are nice!

Yeah, this never works out.

Multiples of the same basic community is a good thing. It was good on reddit, and it's part of the entire benefit of federation. The only difference is that, here, the displayed names can be exactly the same because the C/ always comes with an @ as well.

While it would be nice if location based communities had an agreed on standard, good luck getting consensus between even the five biggest instances and all of those C/s. It would be a herculean task. And, it still wouldn't stop anyone else from just ignoring the consensus.

Well shit.

Isn't a fake wig just your real hair?