No problem man :) welcome to the fediverse. BTW, if you go to settings, you can set your defaults, so you don't have to constantly change it
dannym
joined 2 years ago
lemmy allows you to change the posts you see from local (only your instance) to all (every federated instance)
While this is indeed awesome remember that the whole point in federation is having a lot of small communities rather than one or two huge ones.
In large part the same also happened on mastodon where mastodon.social has 200k people. This is not the way that ti's supposed to work; no single instance should have this many users, in fact often it's better to have instances for maybe 50 users at most
We watch a vastly different amount of videos online I guess. I was thinking 10 or 20 people at most. But even with 100 people, if somehow you wanted to donate to every single person, the solution is simply to donate yearly rather than monthly. (Seriously tho, not judging your lifestyle, but 100 channels? That's a lot)
You are making a lot of assumptions with your argument.
In your current model, a considerable share of your subscription money goes to the platform (in this case, Alphabet), rather than directly to creators. While this is indeed a reality of the current system, that doesn't mean it is the most effective way to support creators, and it is this point that the suggested model seeks to challenge. Direct contributions, even if smaller in size, have a larger portion reaching the creators.
Also, your argument assumes that you donate an equal share of revenue to every creator, but that doesn't always make sense. You have the Power of Choice: In the current model, you pay your subscription fee and have little say over how it is distributed. In a direct donation model, you have a greater ability to vote with your wallet, supporting the creators who you feel truly deserve your support.
I’m certain that you don’t actually follow your own advice because it’s quite clearly impossible for a normal person to internationally distribute $12 among dozens of strangers.
No, I don't, I donate more than that, and most of the time without third party platforms that take their cut, but look I agree, it's not practical for every individual to distribute $12 among dozens of creators around the world. But, if a significant number of people were to adopt this approach, the collective impact could indeed be substantial.
Also, patreon and similar platforms are only used for convenience, and are not the end all be all, for instance liberapay takes no fees (with the exception of the processing fees that are charged by the payment processor).
rather than paying for youtube premium you should use an adblocker, or download all the videos you watch, then donate the money to creators you watch. if everyone who paid for youtube premium just decided to split the cost of the subscription between the creators they watch, creators would make a lot more money and as a bonus you hurt Alphabet, one of the worst companies in the world. It's a win win
just put it up on a git repo and share the link
if enough people are looking for this (and are willing to provide anonymized examples of what facebook's data export looks like) I might be willing to write a script for it, same with any other platform!
Lemmy doesnt stand a chance against any company big enough to advertise.
I disagree with this to be honest. I think that people are starting to see the cracks in what Big Tech is doing, and slowly, once enough people switch and Big Tech platforms become worse and worse there is gonna be a shift. I mean that's basically the entire thing I'm trying to do with escapebigtech.info, literally showing the world what Big Tech does and pointing them to other FOSS alternatives. It's probably not gonna happen tomorrow, or next year, or heck, even this decade, but at some point enough people will switch that it will be inevitable.
As a lifelong coder and Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) champion, I've come to a critical realization: the majority of folks are tech-disinterested to the point of stubbornness. A whopping 80% won't lift a finger to make their digital lives better, not even if it means spending a measly five minutes. Tech nuances, innovations, platforms? They couldn't care less. But guess who loves these tech-phobic masses? Big Tech, that's who. These are their dream users, the last to hop onto any tech trend, yet the most dogged in clinging to their tools till they're six feet under.
However, the remaining 20% exhibits a different dynamic. An 80-20 split reigns here too. The larger slice contains folks who will actually consider switching things up, give new tech a shot, learn a thing or two. The tinier sliver? Those are the folks ready to take on the tech titans, to build fresh software to go toe-to-toe with them. Their ranks may be small, but don't underestimate them. Some even hit the jackpot (Linux, for instance).
The difference in data models and APIs, combined with the amount of features Apollo supported would likely make it a fairly large task.
I'm aware, but there have been efforts to do this, which is what I was referring to:
https://github.com/derivator/tafkars/tree/main/tafkars-lemmy
But that aside, he mentioned in an article recently that he doesn’t have an appetite to pivot the app towards Lemmy or another third party
aww that sucks :-/ maybe he should just put the code on github and release it as FOSS then if he doesn't want to work on it
I made my own, with blackjack and hookers, actually without the blackjack or the hookers, just the community.
you're right that a large majority of people do not care, but this mentality will begin to change at some point. Also, the entire point of this is that it doesn't matter where the users are, because they can still join the same communities. Now, there are obviously a lot of things that need to improve in lemmy to make it more usable, but federation isn't one of them. The ActivityPub protocol is simple, yet powerful and relatively scalable.