I bought one because it was cheap (presumably because ads) but I never connected it to the web.

I won’t be surprised if they remove all video inputs in the near future.

I know that shitty AI bot all too well. Unfortunately I’ve tried and failed to get people to leave as well. I have a community of ~20k users. Sad reality is that not only does no one care but they will actively attack you for even suggesting such a thing.

Facebook knows what they’re doing. The only way to close the group is to remove each and every member, one by one, and even if you actually wanted to spend the time actually doing that (I have), they will “detect automated activity” and lock your account.

I created my own private Lemmy community. Even set up Photon as a frontend. Not 1 single user joined.

So yeah, we’re so fucked.

It potentially gives them grounds for a lawsuit. Probably not but potentially. There’s no reason not to explicitly deny permission. They have everything to gain and nothing to lose.

You’re giving me anecdotes and I’m giving you statistics.

1. Bit charitable to say “no one uses it” when they have >300M MAU
2. Wasn’t talking about Threads, I was talking about Meta.

They’ve been doing it for quite a while. Very slowly. The problem is it’s currently unidirectional, and opt-in. I imagine its the same reason Apple has adopted RCS (also opt-in): legal pressure.

If they just ignore it completely, legislators might completely fuck them like they did Apple with alternative payments. But if they kinda half-ass it then they can point to it and say “SEE, WE HAVE INTEROP! NO MONOPOLY!”

You can log into any Lemmy instance from any Photon instance.

None of them work anymore. I switched to podcasts 😅

Wow. That was needlessly antagonistic. I don’t know your situation but what’s happening is that you’re pawning off these costs to other people. PeerTube is just not going to foot that bill for you, so you have unrealistic expectations.

Also most of that stuff is unnecessary, you can simply get a DAS box and connect it to your local machine as a hard drive.

Not necessarily. Like I don’t have my YT stuff stored anywhere any more.

I mean, that’s just poor archiving practices. There’s no reason you shouldn’t keep originals stored and backed up locally. You shouldn’t depend on someone else to archive that for you.

Honestly, I have no notes for the PeerTube app. They really nailed it on the first try…

Let me just ask the less technical and more important questions:

1. If BSky goes out of business and shuts down their servers, will these continue to function?
2. Does BSky still have any control at all over moderation?

You shouldn’t expect full interoperability with this alone! At most, you should expect that your public posts get shared with your followers on Mastodon (i.e. an outbox)

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Back then videos were a lot less produced and more raw style.

Most successful channels now have several hours of editing for each video

I’d need to spend all my free time making and editing videos

I’m noticing a recurring theme here. You seem to think every channel and video needs to be really high production quality for some reason. They don’t. Look at channels like penguinz0 and SomeOrdinaryGamers. Both of them are just dudes ranting into shitty webcams with the trashiest of production value and both of them have tens of million of subscribers. And it’s especially impressive considering it’s easier than ever to make high quality productions.

Not anymore, people have jobs which take up at least 8 hours of their day,

You think people didn’t used to have jobs?

Anyone who seriously want to make quality videos on a consistent schedule wants to make money and the end goal being to turn it into their job.

“Quality” is subjective and doesn’t necessarily require much money.

Most of it actually has nothing to do with Youtube

Thank you for elaborating on my point.

No one is going to a platform thats “just for fun”

Thousands of people already are. Myself included.

And it’s not “just for fun”, it’s because we don’t want to subject ourselves to abusive and invasive corporations.

Buy a $20 Walmart ONN box and plug it in. Disconnect your TV from internet.

Okay then I will recommend the new Beelink ME mini

https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-me-mini-n150

And also the “pocket NAS” from CWWK.net

currently looking at a refurbished optiplex 3060 with an Intel I3-8100T

Those are fine but will be less power efficient than the mobile CPUs.

Do you mean building a multibay NAS myself? I looked into it and it didn’t seem really cheaper

It definitely is. Also most NAS have a very weak CPU. Because a “NAS” really doesn’t need one.

its challenging for creators to generate income from Peertube

1. Most people don’t start making videos to make money. In the early Tube days there was no money.

2. PeerTube only has 1 less avenue for monetization than YT, among dozens.

I would recommend DIYing your own NAS/server, if possible. How much storage are you needing? What’s your budget?

and all of the results were talking about setting up a VPN or a reverse proxy or whatever. Man, I just want to tell my mom “install this app on your tv and log in”,

This is why I use Yunohost. It makes all of that just a “click buttons” affair. Then you can tell your Mom the same thing. Only the domain is yours so Jellyfin can’t hold it over your head.