This isn’t reddit. Thatxs not what we do here.

I understood nothing you just said. Are you an alien from mars, who’s almost learned english, but not quite?

Because if so…that’s pretty impressive. But also, you should leave earth. Humans have been known to kill other humans for having a different skin color, or for believing in a different magical man in the sky. I can’t imagine what they’d do to someone from another planet!

Earth is not tolerant of others.

“I like Lemmy way more than I ever did Reddit. The people are nicer”

punches you in the face

Oh, yeah. Totally agree

punches you in the balls

Over on reddit, there are all kinds of fascists, and literal nazis.

uppercuts you

Over here, theres an instance full of tankies, but you can avoid them.

kicks you in the shins

The people here are TOTALLY nicer!

kick kick punch

What? I’m not attacking you to be violent. I just have a neurological disorder that causes my limbs to involuntarily thrash out.

punch

I’m TOTALLY being friendly right now!

kick punch it’s all in the mind

I certainly hope you’re oversimplifying for the sake of expressing a core concept. Because the amount of tracking, and profile building goes far FAR beyond what you’ve just said.

It’s like 1984 (the book) is tame by comparison.

I mean, yes and no.

You know how when you look up at a nights sky, and the whole sky is covered in a series of rotating popup ads, with the stars as their backdrop?

What do you mean NO??? When you use your telescope to try to look at space, and all you see is a facebook ad, a mcdonalds ad, a starbucks ad, an ad for a local lawyer, you know…space ads. We’ve all seen them. Just ads floating in space, illuminating the night sky.

Oh, my mistake. This is 2025. That’s commonplace in 2125. See, the technology to impose global space ads isn’t a thing yet.

The thing about technology is, there’s always somebody looking to profit off of every new technology. The technology behind space ads is actually used to show important global events, like what the global dictator does everyday. Oh, right. In 2125 there’s a global dictator who rules the entire planet through oppression and slavery. So, not much different than 2025, besides even the illusion of freedom is gone.

The point is, you don’t have the technology to put ads in the sky, and therefore the advertising industry can’t yet be blamed. But once it exists, they will.

It really is a chicken or the egg situation.

I’m not sure peertube HAS thousands of viewers

It’s not about adoption. It’s about money.

Superfamousguy (a youtube user I just ficticiously created to represent every single big name youtuber) doesn’t make videos in their room talking about whatever, and uploads whenever.

These guys have a strict schedule. They need to shoot today. Edit tonight, upload tomorrow exactly at 11am. Because their users are conditioned to expect those videos at those times. So they get sponsored, and now advertisers are promised an average viewcount on the dominant video platform at a certain time. They’re paying superfamousguy money for those promises.

It’s not a hobby, it’s a job. And advertisers are not going to be willing to touch peertube because it’s handled by so many fragmented cases that it’s impossible for peertube to have the stability of youtube.

So, I’m not saying peertube can’t grow. I’m just saying its decentralized nature will scare most advertisers away. Without the advertisers, superfamousguy can’t make a living. And at that point it doesn’t matter if peertube has twice as many viewers as youtube. Without money, these professionals cant fund their crew, they can’t make videos, and thus stick to youtube.

Holy shit! Clearing just the cache worked! Now it’s back to normal!!!

Here’s the weird thing. It doesn’t matter if I’m logged out or logged in. It’s not all of lemmy. It seems to be JUST lemmy.world.

I don’t have a lemm.ee account, but that one works fine. Whereas lemmy.world, even logged out is still a mess.

Now for the other weird bit. If I enable secret mode, the website works fine.

I’m thinking of downloading a new browser and seeing if that changes things.

Damn. So it’s a me problem.

sigh

Right now the political parties in the USA are one side, who are filled with actual nazis, and then on the other side is everybody else.

This from an administration who already ran a sucsessful 2016 campaign based on the ideas of racism, which ended in the preventable deaths of over 1 million people. Yes, covid played a part, but the administration at the time downplayed covid’s seriousness. Thus enabling roughly half the country to treat it as a political issue rather than a deadly disease. And trump, behind closed doors, knowing a tape recorder was on, fully admitted to embracing covid with the belief that it would kill more leftists (since they live in the city and more densely compacted) than it would right wingers (since they live in isolated farms).

And people, willingly voted for him in 2 more elections. He didn’t win 2020, but it’s not like it was a landslide.

Roughly half the country are nazi supporters. They wanted this.

And you ask if we should work with opposing parties? Maybe in more sane times, when the issues on the line are things like communications acts, or tax reform. But not now. Not when the agenda is “burn all those who oppose us”.

I only heard of it a year ago.

I still hate the name “fediverse”. I love the concept, hate the name.

2008 wasn’t 17 years ago…it was…holy shit. 2008 was 17 years ago. What the fuck.

Holy shit. Fuck that.

You have to fill out a form to inquire about price. So I don’t know.

My issue is finding peertube content.

“Do you want video on linux?”

“No.”

“Alright. Do you want videos on…linux?”

“NO!”

“Ok, hmmmm…Do you want these 8000+ videos from Veronica making linux content?”

“NO!!!”

“Ok…Veronica just posted a new video 14 seconds ago. I’m just going to leave this here for you.”

leaves peertube

I don’t think I’m seeing the value here. Why would you want to track him?

Me on peertube:

“I don’t want to watch linux content. Which means peertube is out of content…NO!!! GO AWAY VERONICA!!! HOW DO YOU HAVE SO MANY VIDEOS ANYWAYS??? AND IT’S ALL LINUX!!!”

Man…I got annoyed at the Nicole stuff. But I always figured whoever it was, it wasn’t her. I figured she was just some adult webcam “actress” that doesn’t even know Lemmy exists. And someone was using her image to do this.

Now she’s dead? How do we confirm this? Do we call the Toronto police? What would we even tell them?

Holy shit, there’s a whole community for this?? Wow. I mean, I COULD post there, but, I’m pretty sure they are aware she exists. So at that point I’m just instigating a search dox party. I was just looking to make a joke to take the piss out of the fact I just got hit twice in the past hour. Actually going through with it seems a bit much. Sorry, I didn’t know that existed.