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Publishing this on PeerTube is also a problem. I mentioned this in another post, but to expand, I really, really, want to like PeerTube. But:

• Many running servers don't fully grasp the bandwidth requirements. The video I tried to watch in that post got "popular" (800 views) and it took 2 minutes to even get the progress bar to load. People will leave.
• The federated nature is even more disjointed than Lemmy. It feels like a bunch of different sites still, which makes it feel like less content.

IMO PeerTube could be great, but it has a lot of shortcomings that aren't solved by adding features and fixing bugs.

Typey type, typity type type.

I really want to like Peertube. It's just really hard with the diverse hosting bandwidth requirements. 2 minutes in and I still dont know how long this video is, much less it's content.

Someone's been reading comments on the zapped back in time post.

Thats fair, but simly using FOSS software doesn't support the cause of the developers/creators. I mean, look at Lemmy.

Hah, fair point. How about "Dropped in a place with a functional society and no internet, that, yea, magically exists somewhere."?

Uhh this is a reach. By this logic so is Signal. And RedHat. Hell, even Mastodon.

Yup, that's me. But I also put it away regularly to experience everything else the world has to offer. Sometimes for pretty extended periods of time, too. And you know, not walk out into traffic.

Everyone needs to be dropped in a place with no internet for 6 months.

Problem solved.

I'm guessing you either:

a) Were fortunate enough to go to uni when I did, when it was cheap

b) Have had, or had a family with, lots of disposable income

Times are different now, unfortunately. Uni is now a pathway to a job to pay off uni debt. It's not what it used to be.

No thanks. One more centralized service to enshitify. Will stick with Matrix.

Maybe we need a new movement (or revisit past ideas from the 70s) that focuses on ensuring the openness regarding freedoms of computing (😉) that combat proprietary SaaS offerings? idk.

This is why OSS as an org needs a change IMO. Licenses like SSPLv1, where software can be supplied for free with options that allow a company to make money without risk of a cloud vendor snapping up their software (think Redis, MongoDB, etc) need a place at the table.