Some of them are on Nebula. But, I don’t know who you watch. I have a Nebula lifetime, but I also still have a lot of subscriptions on YT. So, it’s unlikely to be a total replacement.

I know KZ sends out notifications via Discord, so I expect they do get some sort of spike right after upload. And, as long as they are on YT, getting a quick post-upload spike also causes the video to be offered to more non-subscribers.

PeerTube doesn’t provide a revenue stream based on views. KZ and basically anyone that outputs “professional” animations has to have revenue if they are to pay their workers. Other revenue streams (e.g. Merch) can be distractions from the main task of producing video.

Nebula content is only available to subscribers, so the reach is tiny. Creators are free to mirror the content to non-Nebula sites, including YT, so I guess it could be an option.

Dropout is also subscriber only, and they are more jealous about making sure content appears there exclusively, at least for a bit. “One Backflip” and “Pissing Out Cancer” both were Dropout-only for at least a month before the performers could put the specials on other platforms.

Yes, it is possible. But, it’s really hard to get off YT after building an audience there, and YT seems to have a much lower barrier to entry than other platforms, even PeerTube.

Yeah, I think edutainment in particular should really try to at least mirror on Peer Tube. You don’t earn anything for views there, but you also won’t be subject to centralized content moderation.

But, KZ is, I think, captured by Capitalism, and would be unwilling to be hosted on a site that doesn’t pay them.

They’ve admitted to using “AI” content editing tools. But, I’d bet most of those tools are using “AI” either due to exploiting hype, or due to being based on non-generative, “AI” ML classifiers.

I am, or at least was, an immature ass.

That’s what it was called when I started getting it for free with my subscription to Google Play Music. :)

It’s not often, but yeah, sometimes I’ll get a “Jump Ahead >>>” button overlay that skips the sponsor ad-read and/or a clear auto-generated “segment” that is the sponsor ad-read.

Still, I never expected YT Red to remove uploaded content, only to stop inserted advertisements.

Where, exactly, is the snark in my comment? It was unintended, and I’d like to avoid projecting snark unintentionally in the future.

I agree that quotes aren’t a lot of action, but public quotes are one of the methods people in those positions affect the electorate and help (or hinder) candidates. I do hope the DNC contributes materially to the campaign, and agree that has yet to happen.

I believe an X mirroring service will count as a single “daily active user” for the X numbers, no matter how many actual people are accessing the information downstream of the mirroring service. I don’t use that number myself, so I’m not sure how it is calculated.

I can operate without X. But, not everyone can. For example, there are governmental organizations that only publish announcements on X. So, some people are going to need to use a mirroring service (or X itself) until they can get entities outside their direct control to change behavior, which always takes time.

I left X when it was still called Twitter, and do extensive ad-blocking (UBO; Medium mode), so I don’t see anything posted there. Thanks for the information.

Please stop using X. It only has ad income due to the “daily active users” numbers still being high. Leave it and if you still need to follow select accounts on it, join a Mastodon instance that doesn’t defederate @bird.makeup or one of the other X mirroring services.

As a fan of Bernie, I know the Democratic Party has chosen to freeze out it’s left wing often in the past. But, all the D officers/candidates/etc quoted in the article support Abdul El-Sayed.

Let’s see if they can stomach unity this time, and not preemptively attack them, since they haven’t yet failed Mr. El-Sayed. (Feel free to attack them for actually abandoning progressive candidate that could have or did win in the past.)

Hey, for any progressive / socialist / communist / anarchist lemmings out there that thinks the Democratic establishment can’t or won’t support a more left candidate:

• “I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election,” [U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens] said.

• Curtis Hertel, the chair of Michigan Democratic Party, urged unity ahead of November.

• Sen. Gary Peters, the Michigan Democrat whose retirement spurred the contentious primary to replace him, said, “Congratulations to him.”

Of course, this doesn’t mean we can just vote our way out of this, or that the Democratic party is the best way to move forward your politics. But, just remember the value of a strategic vote isn’t nothing and doesn’t have much opportunity cost.

US here. I remember when it changed, probably 20-25 years ago. (Tho, of course it was gradual and localized and I’m only one data point.) I was an undergrad, and not in my first year.

IIRC, it was because “gulf stream” was a little ambiguous, because there’s a lot of gulfs many of which contain oceanic currents / stream. But, if someone in the U.S. or EU says “gulf stream” they are always talking about AMOC.

They used to provide like a 3-day trial, but I couldn’t find any sort of offer like that currently active.

If you are just curious about what they have on their streaming service, you can get a rough estimate by browsing their download store. It’s not a perfect match, but it’s very close. It is quite rare for an artist / studio / publisher to let Qobuz stream it but not sell a download or vice-versa.

Another fairly happy Qobuz user here. Prior to that I used Tidal, which has a better Android Auto experience, IMO. Prior to that I used YouTube Music, and technically I still have a subscription to that because I got used to YouTube Red (now Premium) when it came free with Google Music (now YouTube Music). I prefer a streaming service; I find it much easier to discover music that way.

For digital purchases, while that is possible through Qobuz, every artist I know would prefer you buy from their Bandcamp. ISTR Bandcamp might have been doing some shady anti-union stuff, but I could be misremembering and I wouldn’t know of any great alternatives.

Fascists and right wingers too?

Probably. Certainly republicans, so fascism isn’t a deal-breaker for them.

the conspiracies tend to be different

Plenty of union members believe in the “jewish deep state”, e.g., so I don’t think the conspiracies are that different.

I agree that freedoms can be abused. And, they can certainly be used for right-wing purposes. I also agree that there are plenty of fallacious arguments for freedom, some of which are based on conspiratorial thinking. But, fighting for freedoms of the people and restrictions on the state is always a left-wing activity.

That said, I don’t know where the balance is or should be between solidarity and rejecting intolerance. At the moment, I’m more in favor of protecting marginalized persons by aggressively excluding intolerant people, particularly if their intolerant behavior is well-documented and they still refuse to reject and remediate it. So, I do see the fascists in open source as a problem.

You’ll find plenty of bigots and conspiracy theorists in unions, too. Union activity is still left-wing activity.

All Open Source / Free Software is building the commons. Strong copyleft is using the weapons of the state to help the commons stay under collective ownership.

Public statements like this is why EA continually wins “Worst Company” over real assholes like Blackrock.