That's OK, I stopped using reddit completely almost a decade ago. I'm happier with a small group of nice people than with a large group of unpleasant people.
A lot of people seen to focus on profitability and maximum exposure as the goal. More and more people don't think like that anymore.
I think there technically might be, but it would involve making an account at different Masto instances to pull your content to each individual instance.
You'd also miss out on most others creations if you try to connect your Lemmy account to mastodon, Lemmy doesn't support hashtags. That's vital for Masto use IMO.
From Masto it's quite different, you can easily follow users and there's services that allow admins to sub to hashtags from unfederated instances so you'd get a whole different visibility. I convinced mine to sub to #cartography and #maps so I get any post tagged with them, even if our instances are unconnected.
Could be worth the time to make a Masto account just for this, it's for the full month you know. 🤓 The cartographer community seems a lot bigger on mastodon as well, they even have special interest cartographers like https://mastodon.social/@ConspiracyOfCartographers.
I do wish they'd come to Lemmy though, this platform is much better for topic-focused posts and discussion. Mastodon is more like a social network with a lot of noise to signal.
You have two meatfeet. I have three peglegs.
We are not the same.
Is this artist following me around for inspiration or something?!
I've not thought about them time markers in a long time. One that was kinda funny and bearable was Dave509's twist.
"I need to reach a certain time limit on my videos, so for a few more minutes I'll just sit here, nod and say "I agree" and "I understand". Feel free to share whatever with me...
Sits in absolute silence for 30 seconds while staring at the camera
Yes, I agree."
But I have noticed I've gravitated to longer form videos, 30m+, for the last few years. I guess it has a lot to do with the fluff.
We shall from now on call such content creators "fluffers".
Different tools for different threats. I'm not trying to hide from state-level actors and phone data is illegal to sell where I live.
And if I were, surely I wouldn't talk about it on an open forum. In such a hypothetical scenario I wouldn't even bring a cellphone, no matter if it's a smartphone or a plain ol' Nokia from the last millennium.
Just like nobody would leave reddit for Lemmy since all the content is on reddit?
To be honest, I miss the times when people made videos because they wanted to make videos, not make money. I'm willing to forego quite a lot of YouTube content if that helps build a new paradigm for how the internet works. Would you?
Uploaders would be manually screened at sign-up, I wouldn't run an open server. Many fediverse servers in general and several PT-instances in particular does it. It works fine for a community based platform. It's not meant to be one, monolithic server doing it all, open for all.
There are many ways to handle storage requirements, I like datacenters with easily expandable storage.
You bring up "have fun with that" but I'm having great fun already helping out running both a Mastodon and Lemmy instance. I don't see how a video hosting service would be much different, in regards to moderation. Maybe I'm missing part of your point?
Of course not. But in peoples defence, you can't forget if you never knew. And I seem to have the impression that this was a thing and then it's was pretty much gone again. Not brought up again and again over years like other, less important topics may have been.
Non-interested people would have been left with the impression it was bad, but it must have been fixed or else we'd hear more about it.
Yes, that's why I have two phone numbers. One with an official work number that I give to friends and business partners - Its basically a requirement to have a public phone number if one runs a company where I live, so no hiding there anyways. And then I have a separate number I never give out, for data only.
Oh, you tried to call me but I didn't pick up? Sorry, I was busy/tired/generic excuse. But if you get on Element I'll give you my private account. Think of it as a backstage pass, you'll get in when nobody else does. You'll be special.
Kindergarten level psychology that works surprisingly well.
I agree with you so much a mere upvote won't do.
It seems like we have fundamental differences in how the fediverse could and should work. I don't see this conversation going any further, thanks for the interaction.