This is an absolute gem and I thank you very much for the suggestion. I’m in the same boat as you and will happily pay them until I decide to handle the backend myself.

How did a single senator prevent the president from raising minimum wage? Are you cherrypicking shitbags or did this single person truly prevent it from happening?

Color me flabbergasted.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.waterfox.android.release

It’s my understanding that forks like librewolf and waterfox won’t be keeping this in for those of us that moved over when mozilla started changing its stripes should remain free from this particular anti feature.

I consider Peertube to fall under the “comically bad experience” for a multitude of reasons. There’s too many to really get into but to give you an idea of my experience with the platform, after the “pick a meaningless instance to house yourself” gauntlet that all fediverse outlets do, I was met with not one or two, but three instance refusals to allow me to create an account “because I was not a creator”(the admins literally emailed me to state that was the reason they declined my membership) so was left with the prospect of not having any means to manage or track subscriptions, get notifications of new content, etc. In spite of this, I tried to push through figuring I was missing an obvious manner of use that made it better than it initially seemed. I started searching for content I regularly subscribe to on YT, like “guitar playthough, rehab, urban exploration, drag racing, abandoned” and kept getting results 5 years old, completely unrelated to my search query or so poorly created that it was practically unwatchable.

I tried really hard to use it, it’s just clearly for the nerd crowd that wants to use it in spite of how bad it is as a video serving social platform. I love Lemmy, tolerate mastodon and keep checking on things like Loops and Pixelfed but Peertube is an entirely different beast. It punishes those that try to use it in any way like YT.

I thought most profits come from patreon and ad reads rather than youtube ads.

I think you’re absolutely right but if they move to another platform, they lose their subscriber base, views and interaction that advertisers demand so they don’t bother with the alternate platforms and for that reason alone, there’s nobody willing to waste time on platforms that none of their creators use.

I would have appreciated some of my creators at least copying their releases but nobody does. I don’t know if it’s hard to manage another platform that makes it not worth the time for the minuscule view count they get from it.

Yes but unfortunately there is no feasible alternative at this time. Currently every other platform out there is either comically bad experience to use, populated solely by extremists or completely barren of new content.

Your only current alternative to using YouTube is to stop watching the types of videos that YouTube hosts.

Thanks for the ad, bot.

Who could have foreseen that putting a heroin addict in charge of America’s health could result in lower health metrics?

Don’t forget that simply having that opinion makes you a terrorist as well.

I did read that but that doesn’t fit the title’s claim of

disparities in access

The access is there, they are simply choosing not to use it.

The poorer people are the only ones that would literally have a disparity in access, as it can get quite expensive to use.

TL;DR Poor people can’t afford stuff.

Next in breaking news: Water is wet and shoes go on your feet.

That’s too bad as the billionaires need more suckers to pump up their insider bets.

I don’t think I even need to watch the video. The market was absolutely flooded with cheap alphabet soup-branded Chinese models that people could purchase for near disposable prices and anyone else trying to enter the market with anything more expensive couldn’t get a foothold on the market solidly enough to keep from going under when the fad plateaued and then dropped off.

They are not doing it to protect kids, don’t perpetuate the bullshit claim used to surveil the globe.

I use my wife a lot as my stopgap. She’s happy to have all the accounts, apps and stuff needed to do things and I tend to not interact with anyone unless I absolutely have to. I don’t mean that I don’t use these apps, I have a banking app, my medical app and stuff like that on my Pixel 9 running Graphene. I just usually am not the person in the house to have to deal with much of it.

The most awkward thing I ever have to do is to give companies my email address. I use a domain forwarder and everyone gets their own email address so I can blackhole it when they sell/give it away but that makes the conversation weird.

“Welcome to WeSellWidgets, can I have your email address for your account?”
“Sure, it’s WeSellWidgets@schw.im”
“No, I need YOUR email address.”
“That’s it. WeSellWidgets@schw.im”
“No, we’re WeSellWidgets.”
“Yes, but not @schw.im.”
“No, we’re WeSellWidgets.com”
“Yes, but my email address is WeSellWidgets@schw.im.”

It’s a less playful version of “Who’s on first?” and can go on a really long time.

Some online sites won’t even allow you to use their name in your email address. When creating a Samsung account years ago, I ended up having to use “sssamsssung@” to get the account created.

It never ceases to surprise me that some people don’t see the site for the satire that it is. Bullshit links everywhere, dead # links in the footer, hyperbole and satirical content throughout.

Too cluttered.

Please stop spamming communities that this has nothing to do with.

It’s the same arc every monopolistic corporation has taken before it, AI is just accelerating the pace of consuming your customer/product because profits must always increase.

There will be no large scale shift from these experiences because most people are either ok, apathetic or blissfully ignorant to the situation, the best you can do is to remove yourself from the exploitation of the userbase. Linux instead of Windows or Android, Almost any search engine other than Google, fediverse instead of reddit, etc.