But people here don’t really care that much about celebrities being here and maybe not even their username being unique. Could probably be anon1, anon2, etc and it wouldn’t matter that much, since real identity is probably not a draw for them. Focus on regular people wanting the userbase to want to use fediverse rather than celebrities which is an off-putting first impression and point of sale for lot of people here.

You need to pivot is what I’m saying to achieve what you want.

I’m not here for celebrities and they will always flock to centralized platforms anyways, since they are all about the views.

Sailing is so much better than managing when to stop and continue payment for the dozens of streaming services.

I enjoyed memes back in the forum days because they weren’t frequent with it being more discussion base, so when they showed up it’d have a tendency to actually be funny. But, move towards generating meme content quickly diluted the experience of memes with forcing of memes.

And it can actually be used for stuff other then games. Free tools like blender if you want to learn 3d modeling or da vinci resolve for video editing and so on. It doesn’t just have to stay an expensive gaming rig but a device to learn some new skills.

Never paid for the stupid subscription. Paying for online was always ridiculous despite how people tried to frame it like they were paying for the game rentals. But, didn’t change that it all stopped working if the subscription wasn’t active. Boo console multiplayer subscriptions. Boo

Not really. These aren’t monetized sites, but just individuals inviting guests to use their instance over self hosting their own, and there’s other instances people can move to.

Each instance is better seen as individual forums than a reddit type centralized site. Some forums allows cross account logins, and some you have to create another account. And defederation doesn’t cause that instance to cease to exist like banning a community or subreddit does.

Having the same options when long-pressing a link in a comment/post would be nice as well.

I would like that too. It’s also nice to see what the url is before actually opening up something too for safety reasons

Yeah, one of the statements “If you’re not paying with cash, you’re paying with attention, time, and/or privacy” I found to no longer be relevant.

Doesn’t matter if you spend thousands whether it be a video card or even a tesla. Telemetry to collect data has become a standard with the normalization of everyone being the product regardless of price tier for lot of services and products.

And for YouTube type services seems even more so with the service requiring being logged into an account so along with payment information it leading to much more account specific data collection. The YouTube workarounds actually do more to try to disassociate usage data than the official paid products do.

Also, for those who feel like reading the video transcript than sitting through 10+ minutes

https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=jneVrkgbG4o

Thanks for the explanation. Now I understand the dislike for snap.

$20 starts putting it in the category of productivity apps like Lumafusion which is $20 on sale which is a pretty solid video editor on iOS. Or Procreate at $13 for a really good drawing app iPadOS. So when looking at Android it is definitely an outlier in price for a social media app. And those apps mentioned are one time purchases and straight up paid apps, so there’s no ad integration built into the app that needs to be disabled to begin with which makes it feel premium from the get go.

Most expensive app I spent money on was SeriesGuide X Unlock key which is $24.99 to I think get notifications. SeriesGuide as a base though has no ads and is open source, and feature rich even without the Unlock key. So that I felt better about supporting, since it wasn’t to remove ads and I liked their approach better.

I like quillpad from f-droid as my Google keep alternative. Pretty identical to keep aside from the online syncing.

Reminds me of Black Mirror White Christmas episode. I could use that feature.

Maybe some day an Android update will come out that lets you have any download prompt allow you to set where to save it and rename the file to instead of auto downloading for all apps. It is annoying the way it presently is.

the fediverse blocking off people who want to join it seems odd. Like, we want the fediverse to be a thing so that everything can talk to everything else and the content itself can be king without having to worry too much about where that content lives.

Not me. I wanted something free from multibillion dollar corporations. And people aren’t blocked off. They don’t even need an account to view content or an app. And they aren’t blocked from creating a non meta affiliated account if they want to participate.

So there are YouTube front ends for browser experience, but has anyone tried freetube from this guide?

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/

I’ve really liked the newpipe x Sponsorblock experience on my Android phone with having a subscription list, saves, playlists all locally with no YouTube account and ability to export and import the data of Playlists etc.

Freetube sounds like newpipe for desktop and has sponsorblock as an option too. Anyone use it or used it and have an thoughts on it?

Why would I want to be famous if I’m not even going to be rich in exchange for that. Rich without having to be famous is the way to go.

I stand with Firefox.

Hopefully RES type option comes out for lemmy and kbin.

So true. I’ve been using the browser on my phone and everything is actually readable. And comments having pics within them blew my mind.