MoonlightFox

I subscribe to a lot of full time "content creators" that are ad supported and supported via donations.

I curate my feed meticulously to avoid slop, and I get a lot of value, learning and entertainment from those I follow.

I believe they deserve to be paid for the tremendous amount of work they put in.

Some sort of ability to generate a livable wage from creating high quality content seems reasonable, no?

There is one thing that is vital that is missing from peertube. Effective monetization.

By watching on peertube I am a drain on resources. A net negative. I'd happily pay to offset those costs and more, but I want it to be shared amongst multiple creators and hosters.

I don't want to just support one, I want to support most of the network for the hosting and bandwidth, and a certain amount divided amongst the creators I watch.

If PeerTube introduces some sort of payment / monetization solution, it might get more creators as well. Without it I can't see it growing fast enough to compete with YouTube in the near future.

Well.. Sooner or later the costs of Full HD compressed video will be negligible for hosting and bandwidth, so that might be when YouTube gets a real challenge. So I guess we'll see

Interesting read to get some perspective on this.

https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e

I thought it was disappointing and unnecessary for Andy to say anything at all about this, and especially in support of any of the actions of the Trump admin, but I have personally decided to let it slide. That article is one of the reasons. But I still don't think it is ideal.

I often refer to my wife as my girlfriend. It's cozy and it's kinda like a very vanilla form of roleplay. "Remember when we were younger, and just met"-kinda thing.

We need some sort of "immune system" to handle these extremes, deplatforming is kinda like moving the disease to another part of the body where there is no "immune system". Defederating might create the same effect.

I don't know how to handle it, but we might need more "normal" average people participating in a compassionate understanding way, with those that have lost their way. Because right now there are plenty of Russian bots that encourage the wildest conspiracies and world views, but also plenty of people with idle time on their hands encouraging it also.

We will meet this challenge more and more as the fediverse grows. At this moment it's not worth the investment to spread misinformation probably.

Fucking Kanye...

Runaway and Ghost town are fantastic songs.

There only two tracks I would pirate, and it is those two. I don't want to support him financially.

Thank you! I'll check them out and probably add several to my RSS reader.

Thanks, I'll checkout more of the sites you added. This seems interesting and good journalism. I try to mainly consume content that have a high signal/noise ratio, so quality is everything.

I think it's a good enough business model, if we want high quality indepth reporting where they do analysis on dumps of databases based on FOIA requests (really time consuming), and things that require more than surface level reporting, then people need to have this as a fulltime job. A lot of tech newssites just regurgitate news they get from big tech, or do surface level reporting and opinion pieces. While that is useful as well, it's not investigative and as in-depth.

We want professional journalists for a reason. We need it as a society. We need to be sure that they don't do harm to innocent people, that they actually have proof and sources etc. We need people to hold people and companies accountable. Someone has to actually produce the content that other newssites refer to.

They need to get paid on a consistent basis, just like everyone else. That is the most sustainable way we have in a capitalist society.

Small donations from a vast amount of people would be perfect, but is hard to achieve. Which is why they have probably gone for paywalled subscriptions and ads.

Not exactly what you are looking for, but 404media is independent owned by the journalists themselves and report on tech news and how it is affecting society.

Unfortunately, while Element is great, it does not support push to talk or a minimum dB to transmit sound. Which makes it a dealbreaker for gaming with friends, unfortunately.

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