Hi friend! Good to see this insightful comment comes from you.

Iirc there should be a way to complain to the authorities about this, right?

I didnt even know about this one. Pretty awesome. Is it a drop in replacement for jellyfin and plex or different?

https://wiki.servarr.com/

*Then every studio and media corp decided to take us back to piracy.

There, ftfy. ;)

Do you realize you just quoted the first matrix movie nearly verbatim? ;)

And yes, I get that. It feels weird af.

Indeed. But most normies will gladly tell you they are not easy to manipulate while buying something the media has told them to. Its shocking.

So, from up close it seems like people can have their own servers (i checked wurzelmann.at which is currently on the frontpage) but they do not seem to have their own frontend.

This indeed makes it so that for people to actually SEE your content you must federate with one entity and are controlled by them.

Imo this is very bad because it takes the freedom out of federation. Yes, you dont need to login to an app but if they ban you or defederate or delete your post, nobody will see it, right?

Please someone who has tried and gets the technical details shed light on this.

It is pretty good but pretty reduced in functionality imo. Thats why I generally suggest fluffychat. Its nowhere perfect either but it works better on a daily basis for me.

I know. I said semi abandoned because element x is their focus, which is the reason they are not adding features to element and are hesitant to put in fixes for things that would require massive changes.

This is still not ideal because the flagship app isnt advancing in a good speed. Thats why I dont recommend it.

Matrix is great and works great.

Element is a semi abandoned client that happened to come from some of the makers of matrix.

Use literally anything else. Fluffychat works for me. Element is okay for debugging sometimes so I keep it handy.

But the commenters point stands. In matrix, you can send whatever you like, as illegal or morally corrupt as you wish because its nobody‘s fucking business AND e2ee.

If someone on my server sends csam, I would never know unless someone reported it to me. Because thats how privacy works.

*taken down.

There, ftfy.

This might prove useful if the EU goes forward with chat control and maybe DPI further down the road.

I‘d say I‘ve fully embraced the fediverse for over a year, running half a dozen instances for many fediverse services.

The discoverability is indeed an issue for many services but the worst on peertube. It actually has great content but nobody sees it due to it not being properly suggested.

On lemmy vs reddit I can proudly say a lot of topics have great content and its not easy to run out of it if you subscribe to varied communities. One big problem is how spoiled the users of commercial socials are. The amount of people there is of course insane compared to here so someone used to heroine (x, facebook and reddit) will always feel withdrawal on lemmy, mastodon and such.

Imo, we need to keep making strong, compelling cases for the fediverse, against the corpoverse and increase our technical arsenal. Peertube needs clients for every platform and a central discovery (for example instances.joinpeertube.org).

We also need more straightforward installation procedures so more people can host their own. Of course non tech folks will have a hard time either way but a „fire and forget“ compose file or ansible playbook, ideally next to one another like with awesome selfhosted on github.

0.25 atm. For the fleet!

Eww

This is tremendously helpful! Thank you.

From that I would assume that there is need for a federated service that blatantly copies this technique. It is indestructible and not profit oriented which will make it a great alternative for people to just publish to on the side. The review process of course needs to be worked out so that it can have good reputation. As in stack overflow, senior authors review junior authors, etc. one could also start by using known accounts of the proprietary journals as base for peer reviews, etc.

I‘m not a scientist, I just create a lot of stuff and have a strong tendency towards open source and federated media.

It feels to me like you‘re saddling the horse from behind.

Most companies will not be okay with someone using their stuff, especially not if the person or company makes any money with it.

Instead, I would ask in what cases you dont have the company find out about it. Like, if you share movies, shows, etc. Do so in a country that doesnt comply with takedown requests etc.

But yes, you should rely on open source stuff as much as possible.

Everyone should consider joining the fleet. Just to make a statement condemning anti consumer action. We should have regular „I joined the fleet“ events where people can explain the positive impact their service will have. I view piracy as a morally justified choice and as a way of expressing dissent in a way that actually hurts.

Germany by any chance? I‘ve two pairs of glasses and never paid a cent for testing.

Yeah no. Forget it. We‘re not speaking the same language.