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Truth be told, I didn't want to kick off more drama by making a big announcement about it. I respect the stance they've taken and the work they've put in to it! So we've reconnected :)

Do you need to be an activist? Absolutely not. You have a chance to live on your own terms in a world that made that really hard. You don't owe it anything.

That being said... Visibility makes a huge difference, and it's super important that some vulnerable folk are visible and loud. But remember, they're the ones putting themselves on the line, so that in the future, it won't be as bad for those that follow, and that needs to be respected.

For me, being trans was always just a medical issue

This isn't helpful. Whether you see it that way or not, being trans is not "just a medical issue". The fact that you were able to live your life as if it were, gives you a position of relative privilege that most trans people don't share. The truth is, if you get publicly outed one day, it won't just be a medical issue for you either. So whilst you don't have to be an activist, you shouldn't be downplaying the reality that other trans folk do have to face, and honestly, you shouldn't be pretending to yourself that you are immune to them either.

Live your life on your own terms, and do so without guilt. But even if it's just in the privacy of your own thoughts, make sure you build your visible peers up rather than mentally separating yourself from them

Yeah, they did a post up clarifying their stance

https://feddit.uk/post/29902751 / https://lemmyverse.link/feddit.uk/post/29902751

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

Absolutely. I'm one of them. But there's a lot of peertube instances that serve that need.

The OP was talking about creating a moderated instance, with high production quality requirements for members, with the possibility of charging for extra upload capacity etc. And that narrows the field down to people who either make their living from producing video content, or want to make their living from producing video content. That's the group I was talking about

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

Absolutely, but the one its missing is a major source of income for most professionals and semi professionals who make their living from video content. And folk who rely on YouTube advertising aren't just going to be able to drop YouTube for Peertube whilst keeping a consistent income stream. Which means the OP (and the OP specifically, not peertube in general) will need to make space for allowing those users to exist in a way that encourages them to move to Peertube, without cutting off the income they currently make from centralised corporate platforms.

My partner and I run a peertube instance out of our own pockets, and we make videos and host other folk making videos, without caring about their quality or experience. For us, it's about giving folk voices. But I wasn't talking about peertube in general, or folk like myself, I was addressing the OPs situation

At the moment, its challenging for creators to generate income from Peertube. In theory, the avenue they have is through patreons and the like, but in practice, peertube doesn't yet have the volume of users to make that work. And as a result, it's going to be hard to use any kind of "premium/paid" tier service, simply because there won't be many takers.

In my mind, right now, if you're trying to attract creators, you're going to need to reduce as many barriers as you can for them to move over. That may mean co-existing accounts on bigtech platforms and on peertube, and in terms of helping with your running costs, voluntary donations are the best way of doing it for now, until peertube gets a larger volume of users.

Either way, we spun up our own peertube instance a few weeks ago too, so welcome to the vidiverse :)

As always, love your work. Tess is my daily driver for lemmy

There is, by forking lemmy and removing it. We already do that anyway, so we'll look in to seeing what we can do.

In the mean time, we offer a bunch of other frontends aside from the default lemmy UI, and they will all bypass this problem

No, he was not unbanned, and he won't be unless a genuine walkback of his previous stance is made

To me at least, "ignore" implies a server level block of some kind that would be consistent across clients.

Where are you seeing that? I can't find it in the WebUI

Australia

Would like to end up in Argentina or Uruguay though!

That would be a pretty useful feature for a lot of people, especially if you could apply it to a community level. I know lots of people block meme communities etc, but having an option to auto collapse/hide them, but still access them if needed would make things easier for many folk