xmpp + omemo => good luck

One thing I can imagine is even something like unconscious “self censorship”, choosing more permissive license to attract more people and even corporations which will hire developers…

This is the result of years of anti-copyleft propaganda which started to pay off. Now, all that corps need to do is wait for new projects and libraries to pop up and subtly (more than often openly) allocate resources to whichever project they need, or simply EEE. A much easier exercise than it was during the early years of copyleft where we could literally have a free alternate operating system to Microsoft, Apple and IBM while they were openly fighting it. Read on the Education and Government Incentives program for a reminder of what corporations are capable of.

I highly doubt these are sponsored by any big corp, just hobbyists/students that think it is interesting project to undertake that don’t care as much about the GPL as much as they care about doing something interesting to them.

I wanted to test this theory, quickly looking at the commit history you can see that although the project might have started as a hobby/student weekend project, it is currently maintained by someone with an official affiliation of director at Mozilla corp.

PS: I am not pointing the finger to any entity here, I picked this project as an example to have a discussion on this topic.

I am aware that permissive licenses became the defacto form of licensing for new projects thanks to years of propaganda from big corps and especually Microsoft, who bought Github mainly for this. I never paid too much attention until I realized the potential for Rust projects to be widely adopted for replacing a big portion of copyleft libraries. This coreutils project was just an example to make the point, it seems very convenient and it is easy to dismiss the licencing choice as a coincidence. On the long term this might have huge implications a few generations ahead when big corps don’t have to contribute nothing anymore to society. Look at what is happening with OpenCloseAI, open source models are lagging behind because there nothing equivalent to GNU/Copyleft in this field, thus we end up with a big corp mostly owned by Microsoft holding a life changing technology in its hands and hindering the progress of all society.

dwm, I got too much used to “it just works” and never ever breaks afrer an update.

Right now I use https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist

It requires a bit of technical skills to setup the instance but offers an easy UI to quickly add channels/playlist and automatically archives new videos.

If you want an easier script checkout https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection/

You can put in a file the list of channels/playlists it videos to save and run the script, it downloads everything organized in folders including subtitles and video descriptions.

did you use any tool in particular

That’s how a healthy society should be. Bigotry is always a minority of society. The media has been inflating its perceived reality to attract more people away from criticizing the current economical system. Fashism 2.0.

Don’t be too much critical of it, it’s also decentralized in the same vein as Lemmy. There are a lot of dissident voices who have been chased out of YT who can now only talk on Odyssey.

Technically Odyssey is just a front interface to LBRY which the decentralized video streaming platform behind it. I run LBRY directly on my phone. It’s a bit clunky but essential for finding non censored information. Just ignore the alt-right channels.

I came to the conclusion long time ago that any healthy community should not suppress speech no matter its political orientation. In a decentralized system it should be natural to find people from all political spectrums those at the extreme opposite of ours. Reddit became an outright racist and bigoted platform. The few anti capitalist communities left are kept there to keep some semblance of neutrality so the people who support the status-quo keep believing in this fake reality. And as history shows, bigotry and racial hatred is the escape trap of the capitalists when the reality of their exploitation starts to be apparent in society.

That being said, I understand that some instances on Lemmy for example would be more picky on what kind of speech is allowed, since anyone can create his own instance. The ecosystem as a whole allows all voices to exist.

Ultimately all these big platforms are gonna cannibalize their userbase at some point. That’s the reason I started since 2 years archiving all the YouTube channels/playlists I care about. I already have many videos that were taken down by YT afterwards.

What’s going on with Twitch ?

Thanks I didn’t know kbin before. With the recent influx of users it’s only a matter of time until these features are built.

How can I subscribe to the communities over your server ? I am on mobile and can’t how to do it. Tried the mobile web ui and jerboa on Android

Edit: just found out after clicking on your profile I could see all the communities. But suppose I wanted to subscribe to the communities over there from my account on an other instance how can I do it ?

That’s a lovely news. Let them bleed.

So how would it work, if I’m already subscribed to this commynity I would also join the other one and follow the two ?

You’re right I never worked on big projects with a strong- typed language. I did C extensively in my University years and since then it has mostly been dynamic languages.

Haskell was my top priority language to learn but the pragmatic approach and performance of Rust was more appealing. I have a copy of Haskell Programming from First Principles ready on the shelf and I’m thinking Rust will give me a softer introduction to Haskell later.

I also think I am too much impatient since I got used to pickup dynamic languages fast and do something useful with them.

What would be nice is to have a system of tags or keywords that can be defined for a community. It would be trivial then to build a sort of multireddit where multiple communities can be aggregated by the tags they belong to.

That’s usually how I tend to learn new things as well. It’s just that progress feels so much slower with Rust at my current level. I could build the same thing with python or go in a fraction of that time and I need to justify to myself the extra time is for learning purposes.

I started working recently on a big TUI project which I would love to do Rust but unfortunately most of the ecosystem is in Python (AI). I am using Textual and it’s such a breeze to make a TUI with it nothing comes close in Rust. What I achieved in a few weeks would take me months in rust.

Also it’s that I have spent much more time reading than coding in retrospective to the previous languages I learned. I need more discipline just coding.

Thanks for the advice.

Yes right now it’s mostly a lack of time. With age and the constant flood of information it’s difficult to keep focus, especially with Rust. There such a huge amount of documentation it feels overwhelming.