Nextcloud is just really slow. It is what it is, I don’t use it for any things that are huge, numerous, or need speed. For that I use SyncThing or something even more specialized depending on what exactly I’m trying to do.

Nextcloud is just my easy and convenient little dropbox, and I treat it like it’s an oldschool free dropbox with limited space that’s going to nag me to upgrade if I put too much stuff in it. It won’t nag me to upgrade, but it will get slow. So I just don’t stress it out. So I only use it to store little convenience things that I want easy access to on all my machines without any fuss. For documents and “home directory” and syncing my calendars and stuff like that it’s great and serves the purpose.

I haven’t used Seafile. Features sound good, minus the AI buzzword soup, but it looks a little too corporate-enterprisey for me, with minimal commitment to open source and no actual link to anything open source on their website, I don’t doubt that it exists, somewhere, but that raises red flags for potential future (if not in-progress) enshittification to me. After eventually finding their github repo (with no help from them) I finally found a link to build instructions and… it’s a broken link. They don’t seem to actually be looking for contributions or they’re just going through the motions. Open source “community” is clearly not the target audience for their “community edition”, not really.

I’ll stick to SyncThing.

According to the protocol they share (ActivityPub) communities and hashtags are essentially the same thing, they’re a grouping containing many posts. Typing out a hashtag is how you tell Mastodon to add your post to that “hashtag group” (and you can add your post to multiple hashtags). In Lemmy, the community you post in IS the group (and you can cross-post it to multiple communities). The result is the same. They’re the same thing, just different ways of connecting your posts into them, and displayed in very different ways depending on which part of the Fediverse you’re using.

Sounds like you’re doing fine to me. The stakes are indeed higher, but that is because what you’re doing is important.

As the Bene Gesserit teaches: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear.

Make your best effort at security and backups, use your fears to inform a sober assessment of the risks and pitfalls, and ask for help when you need to, but don’t let it stop you from accomplishing what you want to. The self-hosting must flow.

Nebula is awesome and is one of many paths that lead away from Youtube. I like and recommend any and every path that leads away from Youtube. The more paths away from Youtube there are, and the more that get taken, the better. Every creator should explore as many of these paths as they can.

I agree with you. I think many baskets is better than guessing that you’re exclusively picking the right basket. The key question is how you (and from here on I am referring to “you, as a creator” not “you, personally”) are allocating your effort across the many baskets. Even acknowledging that there are many baskets and options is a necessary starting point. If you are treating the options with lower population and lower views as second class citizens and just throwing your content up there too without any additional thought or attention that’s fair, given where they are right now, and at least it’s a step in the right direction, but you need to start thinking about the next step too. If you look at Peertube and see a waste of your time that has no future, you’re entitled to your opinion but I’d respectfully disagree. I think it pretty clearly is the future or at least a step towards it. If you think we’ll simply never escape Youtube, then by all means bend the knee to them and don’t waste your time anywhere else.

But remember that Youtube was new and disruptive once too and people said it could never succeed at what it was trying to do. And now that it’s succeeded, we think it could never fail, it’s too big to fail. Things don’t succeed until they do. Things don’t fail until they do. It doesn’t happen overnight, it happens gradually but if you realize things are shifting early, and spend your effort wisely in the places where your efforts will become most valuable, you’ll be ahead of the curve and in a really good position to maximize the benefit. Or by the time you realize it’s happening, you’re already falling behind and you’ll be scrambling to make the transition. And if you’re completely wrong and the alternative just quietly dies as they sometimes do, your effort is wasted but you’re otherwise not really any worse off than you already are.

Is any alternative video platform worth investing your time and effort in? Not based on what any of them are today, no. But based on what they will be? I think so. You have to think so too, if you want them to succeed. Will they succeed? Can Youtube ever fail? Only time, and you, each and every humble individual content creator, will decide.

Be the change you want to see in the world, don’t wait for it for it to happen to you.

Hey don’t make fun of him too much, he might have to buy another yacht to make himself feel better.

The problem is that society has been much too polite with these shitgoblins. I think we should end polite society entirely and start being really thoroughly impolite.

It was, and still is. It hasn’t moved to the US, it just also opened a nonprofit there, so the US donations they receive from US people are tax deductible in the US. If I remember correctly they have also opened a non-profit in Belgium which is I think where they are intending to actually move their assets and do most of their work going forward as I think they’ve had various issues with the German organization also.

We should skip the whole world war step and go straight to Nuremburg 2.0, now improved with faster sentencing and harsher sentences for fascists and collaborators.

They have declared war on humanity. They will replace us with AI and rocket fuel as soon as they are able to.

“They have lost the plot” quite literally in this case.

It’s definitely not burn-in, it’s likely some kind of defect in the backlighting system. For most LCDs the “backlight” is essentially a big thin white/mirrored panel reflecting or diffusing light in a very carefully consistent way from a very bright light source, typically either a fluorescent tube at the bottom or more commonly nowadays evenly spaced strips of LEDs. Some higher end models use more elaborate designs but they’re the minority. Defects in the backlight panel, the back of the LCD panel, or stuff like dust or even insects getting inside that reflective/diffuser chamber will affect the consistency of the backlight as it both blocks a bit of the light from reaching some places and reflects it to other places it shouldn’t be. That’s what it looks like is happening here. It could be some kind of delamination of some of the surfaces inside the TV, or it could be some puff of dust that somehow got inside, or even something like a spider decided that was a great place for a cobweb. Without opening the panel it’s hard to say what’s going on exactly, it might just need a very delicate cleaning or it might need replacement parts.

If you’re afraid of spiders, I’m sorry, you just have to burn the house down now, it’s the only way to be sure.

The only reason NATO would be involved in a limited nuclear war is if little “multipolar man” decides to start one, in which case we’ll certainly fucking end it for him. That’s how it will be limited.

We have two journalists in the chat this time, for redundancy.

and seize the means of production, comrades.

Me too. At least with Temu and Wish I know the majority of my money is going directly to some crook in China and not to Bezos. Cut out the extra middleman. Same low quality of goods, direct from the drop-shipper lying about them or perhaps even the factory counterfeiting them. It’s a substantial improvement in supply chain honesty and legitimacy, you’re left with no illusions about the products and all the reviews are fake, so it’s deeply refreshing to not have to try to figure any of it out. It’s always 100% consistent. You know exactly what to expect, with no worry you’re accidentally going to overpay for something you think is genuine and receive a box full of rocks that’s obviously been opened, stolen and returned, nah not on these sites. You’ll get exactly what’s pictured (not to scale necessarily, though). Way more reliable than Amazon.

Not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but I want to emphasize that whether you mean it that way or not, it’s true. Each person helping and participating makes the work a little easier and success a little closer. A movement requires leaders and builders, certainly, and those people are often doing a lot of heavy lifting. But it also simply requires members, and numbers, and people just showing up. Your support, simply just being here, means more than you might know.

Good, let them. I’d rather be able to see my enemy than have them creeping up on me from the shadows. This train is now fully in motion, and we all know what’s coming, it’s either going to reach its destination or we’re going to derail it. It’s about time we all see who the fascists are, and everyone who’s supporting them. Let’s stop dancing around each other, it’s time we really start to fight.

Oh, so you don’t like my summary of the article you didn’t read? Maybe you should go read the article then, then you can come back here and we can have a proper argument about what you expected the TL;DR should be.

I don’t know why you think you don’t have time to read the article, you seem to have an awful lot of time to split hairs about “out of touch with voters” vs “out of touch with reality” as if these are vastly different things in your attempt to start an argument while agreeing with literally everything I was trying to suggest with that term. I have clearly made the mistake of stepping into your well-laid trap, you got me, fair and square, I concede to your superior intellectual position and withdraw my own, whatever you think that may be.

I have to say though, you sound very much like you have a little bit of personal opinion going on here too. I’m not terribly interested in what that is, so I’ll be leaving now.

tl;dr: Kamala’s a terrible politician, and out of touch with reality.