Any interesting video recommendations?

2030 is just in 5 years. Everything will be very similar.

2050 onwards there may be some big changes, like big political changes within a big country like China, EU, USA or Russia.

2100 onwards, probably some big war that will reshape the world.

Sorry, all users of lemmy are my alt accounts. I can only pretend so many different personalities.

Nah. Powertripping mods explain bans.

Even here on Lemmy you heard about unjustified bans all the time.

Tablets.

The market for them is very thin. With phones getting bigger and convertible laptops being more lightweight I don’t see much market for tablets.

Which is a shame because it’s s good format for comic reading and more durable than a convertible laptop (they always break by the hinges) but I think in ten years it will be quite hard to find a tablet for sale.

In my country we had always had massive unemployment rates.

People just live with family and keep studying until they can land a job. Plenty of people here hasn’t got a job until their thirties, and rarely in the field the initially thought they’d be working.

It’s shit living with your parents until you are 35, but it has been the deal here until very recently.

I wonder how does that work with federation.

If a second instance does not have that restriction, is there any “legal” effect on the federated content?

Despite its connotations the USA flag is pretty good.

You gotta love the transparency.

The transparency is needed to know if the server is actually costing $5000

Not that the server cost only $500 and the rest go to cocaine and hookers

I don’t need to keep track of my bill precisely, what I want is budget transparency.

I think one of the biggest obstacles in donations is lack of transparency of what’s going on with the donated money.

Nowadays I tend to only donate to projects that have full transparency on what the money is being used for.

I don’t know if it’s the case as the presented case is not an instance I use. But on general before donating any money is the first thing I look up, and if it’s not clear I just hold my money.

But it is known that donations usually cannot sustain projects, specially “user donations”. For a project to be able to have a steady and sizeable influx of money there need to be whale donators or corporations that donate to it. Relying on user donations will always mean a very little amount of money, and I don’t think that’s going to change as most people don’t have that much disposable income anyway.

I think p2p and true decentralization is the way to go. Don’t get me wrong, fediverse is great, but is not as much decentralized as “less centralized”, truly decentralized model should be p2p. I’ve said several times that the ess centralized" model have a critical failure point and that is that instances are under a lot of pressure, economic, legal and administrative. And we are burning people out and spending all their money, because it’s a model that relies in a few number of people taking that big burden.

I think a model that the burden is smaller and more spread among the user base will be more resilient, at least on this aspect.

Also I take the chance to put up a critique on domain costs, it’s not much, but it’s part of this topic and surely they should be cheaper, as domain cost is 90% speculation and very little labor cost. I don’t know if there’s any project to democratize domain names in the clearnet, but there should be one.

I know plenty of small groups with their own webpage dealing with most of that. It’s not that big of a deal.

I selfhost my own searxng, both labor and electricity cost are so small they are negligible.

My point is that if I am to be in al “alternative” economy is not to make rich a cool San Francisco dude instead of Jeff Bezos, is to not make rich anyone at my expenses. When I ask for something different I do not ask for making rich different people, I ask for a system that does not make rich anyone.

For instance Lemmy. Lemmy does not ask for subscriptions nor have ads. Voluntary donations are more than enough to keep it on float. Other people like Kagi CEO or some other CEOs like that would ask a subscription fee for lemmy and guilt trip people into thinking it’s necessary, when it’s not.

But there is free lunch.

That argument I’ve seen it used precisely by adventure capitalist targeting rich alternative people to guilt trip them into their services. When those services could perfectly be free or cheaper without relying in big enterprises.

For this instance, instead of making some people rich by paying music hosting services a p2p network could be offered. If I would me making music I would 100% just offer it by torrent and be done with hosting costs.

Other of my favorite examples is Kagi search engine, which has used this same tactic to convince a lot of people to pay for something that is the same as a self hosted searxng instance.

You have to think about disposable income, after taxes, rent/housing, food and all other essential services.

This is a leisure/personal project expense. And the disposable income for that tend to be 30% of net income at most.

It would be more like a 2%. Which may not sound like much. But it’s same as saying you can do 50 things a year and this is one of those 50 things.

Anyway, I still think that price tag is too much, I don’t think there would be a lot of people really willing to spend that for a service others provide for free with a bigger platform, or that you can do it by yourself cheaper if you want to go to an alternative route.

Once again I think it fits a spot only for alternative rich people.

I stopped using facebook years before fediverse even existed.

I think the facebook public is not the same as the fediverse public.

The most developed fediverse apps are the ones that clone sites that the geeks used to roam, like twitter and reddit.

When people develope something like this, usually is because themselves want to use it. I would assume that, like me, not many people want to use a facebook-like site.

I wouldn’t say it’s a bargain for the artist when there’s plenty of services that offer that for free.

From a purely money perspective a small artist would probably lose money here while it may earn money in places like Tidal, which have much more audience.

Let’s not lie people. It’s not a bargain. $10 a month is a lot for that service. Maybe from a “San Francisco” or other rich American city that is Pocket change, but from most of the world $10 a month is a considerable expense.

Other thing is if you want to morally support ot because you really like that model for whatever reason.

To be honest, I don’t much see the point. Of you are going for the complicated route (aka not using established platforms) are you are even considering self hosting, putting out your own website to sell music is easier and cheaper. And it’s actually very common for artists to have their own website. You can find static hosting for a few bucks.

That seems aimed to create a very closed echo chamber.

Yep, I think the same.

I know that at a technical level would be hard to have common communities among instances. But it should be a goal, as it would add resiliance to the project.

I don’t think they are actually zionist or pro-genocide. But they are definitely not good mods, and they just didn’t handle it in a good way. It’s not the first time I’ve seen problems with that community moderation team, they tend inho to powertrip. I suppose they are friends or the same people as feddit.org admins and that’s why they defend them so much. But I don’t think that moderation team is up to the task of moderating a big community.

Nothing wrong with it, moderation is hard, very hard. And not everyone is qualified for it. They should just step back. Or just close the community if they are so heavy censored by their country legislation.

What’s interesting is that I got blatantly being called a nazi by those particular mods. I reported to admins and nothing happened.

So obviously there’s a double filter here about “not tolerating accusations of nazism”.

I just left, blocked !europe@feddit.org and became very wary of feddit.org administration. So this doesn’t take me as much as a surprise as I have already seen issues with both that community and an admin team that’s clearly not objective when talking about that community admins.