Yeah, but come on man, at the end of the day video makers won't care and why should they. They aren't exactly making art over there.
I get that people have to get payed somehow. But without public funding, it is always going to devolve into some kind of shitshow.
Yeah, I get it too when I go from my mobile internet browser, which still makes me think some css got messed up. I use jerboa (no reason, it was just the first one that was around) and that seems to work. I'm guessing that there is nothing wrong with the lemmy api responses being served from lemm.ee, just some css style somewhere is out of whack.
Not working for me either, getting stuff like this: 2023-07-0113-16-497827751627760968410.jpg
Looks like there there is something wrong with some scaling css properties for svgs in the lemmy UI. I'm trying to debug it a bit, but idk.
Clearing my site data didn't work, perhaps there is a more universal setting that changed somewhere.
Browsing on an app works fine though. Did a css file get deleted or renamed somewhere? That is what it looks like.
Why would creators ever say no to more money?
The one I'm on is federated everywhere, although I think it also defederates the nazi instances. I think you might have to accept that people just don't want to communicate with nazis.
They were kind of sabotaged. Who thought it would be a good idea to make a game about golumn? Like why not make a game about a hobbit instead if you have to make a LOTR non-violence game?
Yeah, I do think that they will start to try to lower the payments to creators as well, especially as high interest money flushes debt financed cash out of circulation.
Yeah, im not a fan of people trying to control what I do with my computing hardware. But in youtubes case, at least they pay the creators of monetized videos. I'll still figure out how to block the ads, but it's not like reddit.
It's really not that hard. Just host it on your computer, or find a smaller instance that everyone will federate with.
I think it is one of those situations where everyone complains about what they use.
The reality is that system startup is insanely complicated due to the nature of software dependencies, and there will never be a perfect solution across multiple distros.
Buddy, you can always host your own instance. Most places will not de-federate small instances if they don't act inappropriately. This is the only way to build something sustainable that can't be taken away by someone.
Okay, but I dont want to pay any of them.
I realize that this is a catch22, but this is where we are at. I really only want to view footage from creators that are willing to give it to me for free without ads. Youtube provided a technical infrastructure for that for about two decades, and it looks like they can't anymore. Fine, but it has clearly been proven that we as a society can make this happen, and I will patiently wait for it to be a thing again. Or I will find something else. But I am not paying a monthly subscription.
Honestly, if I could pay 800 dollars for lifetime access to YouTube, I probably would. Weird right? Thats like 8 years of YouTube premium all at once. YouTube might even shut down in 8 years. But whatever, its not my job to figure these things out and honestly I'm unbothered by it. At the end of the day, I am confident that intwrnet based media will emerge stronger from this.
At the end of the day it is about honesty - are you a small creator reading an ad because that is how you support your business, or are you a large faceless corporation giving me free shit so that I will unknowingly be bound by a EULA that is designed to be impossible to understand, all for the purpose of trying to extract money from me later? Ill take the former, every time.