While I don’t disagree, YouTube won’t care. Currently folk like you and I who evade their ads are freeloading. We get all the content and YouTube gets nothing in return. Having those who block ads abandon watching doesn’t lose YouTube anything, and maybe saves them a little bandwidth bill I guess?
I think it also fundamentally changes the conversation. Valid but “unpopular” comments can’t get buried in downvotes. The voting system on Reddit was based on a sane logic that totally neglected to consider how people actually behave… the idea of up and down votes to crowd-source relevance and quality of content makes sense, but all anyone did was use it as an agree / disagree button which broke the idea entirely.
Kbin has entered the chat
Lol I jest especially as Kbin and Lemmy play nice with each other too!
Ego. Tremendously inflated ego, perhaps stoked by watching Musk and thinking “great idea, I can do that too!”…?
Those who forget history are doomed to get downvoted to oblivion.
Depends on how we define an identity… the dataset doesn’t move (would be a great feature if that gets added similar to Mastodon and others, but we have to appreciate Lemmy is young and developed entirely by volunteers) but “you” do.
Regardless it’s still a significant conceptual improvement over Reddit where you’re either there on the centralised service or you’re not there at all.
I think you’ve some valuable insights though, and would genuinely encourage you to get involved in their GitHub. If you can code, and have time to offer, you can even start to build the functionality. If not you can raise the question or check for it already being and add your comments to it to make the use-case :)
If A goes down or if I lose interest in it, I’ll need to re-establish somewhere else and resubscribe everything
Correct, as of now, but the point is that you can resub elsewhere. This is entirely impossible on centralised private platforms like Reddit.
It’s something of a manual process for Lemmy right now, you’d need to set up on another server and manually add your communities but the point is you can still “move home” and still interact with the same communities and people. If you don’t like having your stuff on Reddit, on the other hand, your options are put up with it or no longer be able to be part of that community.
So if you join a fediverse server of any flavour and the admins reveal themselves to have view incompatible with your own, or the server goes to shit, or it just has to shut down due to lack of funds or whatever you don’t get locked out of the places you have been hanging out in.
Your ID doesn’t need to be tied to any given server. You can move around and change your “home” server at will. Or if preferred you could stand up your own server for your usage, hold your identify on there, and still engage with the rest of Lemmy / fediverse.
It’s less a design mistake and more a technical constraint. A users identify exists as, at a minimum, a database entry. That database needs to live somewhere that the various fediverse servers can talk to. But you have complete freedom in where that database entry is, and can change your mind later.
So it already doesn’t matter if you’re on beehaw, lemmy or some random mastodon or kbin server - they all federate with each other (to varying degrees but that’s a slightly different conversation)
I’m pretty uneasy about the association, but the attitude of Beehaw is the antithesis of it so I guess it balances out…?
I did play with Kbin first but the interface felt kinda broken to me, buttons not reacting and the like…
We had a Google speaker thing. Got rid of it because it was crap. All we could reliably use it for was asking it to play a radio station or play Spotify, but frankly it even got that wrong enough that grabbing my phone and connecting to the Bluetooth speaker was easier.
Even privacy invading problems aside they’re just a little bit rubbish.
Having given it a try I’ve also found Jellyfin more responsive, and has all the features I’m needing… seems like a fit for me :)
There’s apparently a plug-in for Jellyfin to do the subtitles download thing… haven’t tried it though
How would you say Jellyfin compares to Plex? Just today installed Plex server so definitely early enough in the process to hop to a difference media server 😁
Sounds like a really bad experience 😞
The real danger here is if , in the process of putting the PC together, you accidentally damaged something causing the problems. I once built a PC and totally forgot to put the risers between the motherboard and the case. Turned it on and FZZT… short circuited the entire damn thing. Totally unresponsive. Somehow with incredible luck the board had some sort of protection against this and once the risers were in it turned on OK - but had that not been the case I would have totally been on the hook for the cost of the whole machine…
I sincerely hope your situation is different and you get a refund! Let us know how it goes :)
Seems a fair balance!
blocking public posts makes no sense
Don’t entirely disagree, the content is still easily visible. But it’s not about blocking content from being seen, Musky baby, it’s about blocking accounts from hurling abuse at the poster.
needs … a stronger form of mute
For just public posts? Block feels like a fairly comprehensively strong form of mute…?
Reddit doesn’t run a profit yet, so all they need to achieve is enough to get into the black. Like Twitter, Reddit I don’t think will crash and burn but the quality will drop dramatically. Reddit doesn’t care about quality long as there’s enough users on the site to make the paid ads have value. In the short term I think they’ll succeed in that but it’s going to turn into a cesspool.
But if those up for actual conversation and vaguely respectful debate come over here & leave the trolls and the karma farmers with Spez then that’s a great result!
I like the idea of Downvotes. The principle was a good one but it neglected to consider that people, on the whole, don’t look at vote buttons as up vote = relevant content downvote = irrelevant (their original intention, essentially crowdsourcing moderation / content quality control). Rather they look at them as agree / disagree, like / dislike.
I’m the end I think they hurt the conversation. People can just downvote with ease instead of having to put the effort in the say something, leaving that space for those who had a strong enough drive to be snippy or nasty to full it.
Upvote only still allows a mark of quality / relevance from the community without making it so divisive.
Everyone going mad and many suggesting “if you have it use Safari instead!” when Apple implemented essentially this same thing quite some time ago in Safari 🤔
That said intentions are important. I have little faith that Big G’s goal is anything other than self servin.