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Given the Team Sneed logo being a fat orange pepe clone in a red trucker hat and the existence of previous games by the same person with names like “Cuck Simulator”, it definitely seems like the intent is racist.

On a side note, it’s crazy that the same people who love to shout about there only being two genders will also classify men into 100 distinct categories related to gender expression and sexuality. It’s almost like they can’t count.

Same. It’s a bit silly.

What do you meeaaan? Stoats are fucking adorable!

So is the ISP you’re using a scam? Your electric company? Your own job? The place where you get your food? Your doctor is a scammer? The people who maintain the roads?

How am I meant to take an article that opens by claiming the entire economy is based on scams and gambling seriously?

I literally use Piefed every single day and am enthusiastic about the growth of the Fediverse. If it can’t even take internal criticism from regular users with a vested interest it isn’t ready for outside interest.

Most of them have Patreon for that, which actually produces income.

What’s the incentive? All they would be doing is pushing views away from platforms where having viewers actually benefits them, either through metrics or income or both.

Honestly the best way to get that going might be to have a company and offer sponsorship deals with the requirement that creators also post to Peertube. But that would require companies having a reason to want people on Peertube.

Yeah, agreed. The one thing the platforms you see that aren’t YouTube that creators actually use have in common is financial incentive. Nebula is the best example here. Creators get a cut and have more creative freedom, so they actually use it and try to direct their audience to it for bonus content, which seems to actually work. Patreon is similar for a lot of creators, letting them put out additional content with fewer restrictions and letting them get more income from their viewers.

Some people also seem to have some success with independent platforms. If you look at like a Dropout or Viva Plus, these are both putting stuff out on YouTube and then drawing users in with subscriptions, and that seems to be a sound model.

But Peertube produces zero dollars for creators, which means they have no incentive to push users there. In fact, they’re incentivized to avoid doing so because there are other platforms that will actually pay them if they can direct traffic there. Peertube lacks both the money-making side of things and the exposure side of things, so there’s no real reason to use it.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see something independent like Peertube take off, but the model doesn’t really work.

I mean, the way to use Lemmy/Piefed is to have multiple accounts. You don’t need to “migrate” anything, just start using it.

I do see this tendency from people coming from reddit to kind of fetishize the “status” of their accounts and try to preserve everything they’ve ever said as if anyone cares, but that seems both unhealthy and unrealistic. Nobody is digging through your posts from 6 months ago for content, and no one will care that you haven’t reposted all your passing thoughts to a new instance.

If you look at the users who are active across multiple accounts, they’re recognizable without worrying about what instance they’re on. Like I have no idea what instances Stamets or cm0002 or whatever are using at the moment or how many of their posts exist where and I don’t really care. I read my current feed, comment a little, post once in a while, and it seems like that’s what most people do.

Do you walk around with a tape recorder meticulously archiving every spoken conversation you have in real life? Would such a thing make your interactions more significant? Just keep that shit in your brain and the collective memory of interactions with others and get on with your life.

Peertube isn’t really a viable alternative. There isn’t a substantial enough audience for creators and there isn’t really enough content for an audience. I guess if you’re one of the 100 people watching transport evolved that’s cool but it isn’t really a meaningful alternative. I suppose it could be supplementary, but why would creators want to drive their traffic to a site that doesn’t actually matter for their visibility? I imagine the same probably applies to loops.

Also, like, with video you kind of want a reliable host that you know isn’t going anywhere.

The rest are okay as long as you’re not super worried about how many people are seeing what you post. Lemmy and Piefed are great for content aggregation and discussion, but they seem to be the only ones that at this point actually do anything that might be helpful.

I’ve tried Mastodon and while it’s way better than Twitter it isn’t exactly providing a way to reach a substantial audience. Personal websites are probably a better bet for ease of access.

Wild to assume the entire US agrees on much of anything.

Ban all ICE agents from all jobs everywhere.

Fines in general for large companies need to be adjusted to their profits rather than just being unrelated big looking numbers. A $1 million fine looks like a lot, but if the company made even $3 million from the behavior that landed them the fine, they’re still incentivized to play dirty. If the fine if is a tiny fraction of the profits, as they so often seem to be, it’s even less effective.

Want an effective fine? Figure out how much being crooked made them and charge them double. Create an actual incentive for businesses to be fair in their practices. They’re definitely not going to do it out of the kindness of their hearts.

Better yet, start going after C-levels if the behavior is egregious enough.

It’s not that it has nudity. It’s that it had a child riding around on a fully naked adult in a horse mask.

Lemmy is absolutely inundated with bad faith actors who seem suspiciously intent on sewing as much division as possible, getting the left to be as politically ineffectual as possible, and never offering anything as a viable solution. There’s no meaningful barrier for entry so it’s pretty trivial to make a bunch of accounts and push an agenda.

That’s by no means limited to Lemmy, but Lemmy is absolutely littered with them. It’s been like this for quite a while.

Looks like it’s mostly being covered by left-wing and neutral sources.

The fact that a term that just means “paying enough attention to be aware of the world around you” is used derisively is incredibly indicative of how much of a braindead mess a lot of the population has become.

Why would anyone who knows how to play music at any level use an AI to do it, let alone a significant composer?

Just pick up an instrument and fool around with it.

They’ve also mentioned elsewhere that they’ll continue support as long as there’s enough of a subscriber base to justify it. If enough people are using it, that 5 years could be much longer. They offer security patches for Windows 7 too.

I’m not really sure what their process is. I’m just glad to be able to keep my current work flow without having to worry about fully losing security updates.

If you want to keep using Windows 10, check out 0patch! They’re supporting security updates past EOL. It’s like €24/year and you can get a 1 month trial for free.