Stop using the algorithm. Take your existing known likes and go search them out for their collaborators. Search out creators not single videos on a topic.

Thanks for the thorough write-up.

It’s not so much that it doesn’t appeal; it’s more like I’m looking at a menu in a foreign language.

I’m middle-aged, I like science, tech, retro, gaming, and whatever VLDL is. I am open-minded to new things, but prefer substance over screaming and outrage. I’ve spent a lot of time sifting through Odysee and Peertube for anything redeeming, and while I’ve not come up empty-handed, I’ve also not found enough content to offset my YouTube habit enough to walk away from the platform (my goal). The service is half the monthly price of Netflix, and while I don’t expect a production company full of quality entertainment, I’d like to be able to fill a couple of hours a day with vaguely interesting programming.

I’ll check em out post holidays pass and my finances recover.

Heh, work has a fucking life insurance policy out on your ass. When open enrollment gives you that free coverage that pays 30k, they took out another 30k and it’s there to cover the cost of hiring someone to replace you.

Well look at that, last time I checked it was guest pass or nothing. good move on their part!

I’ll have to give them a shot after the holidays.

d asking about their religion and political affiliations.

To be completely reasonable, I’ve not seen any strong right-wing supporters that are not either deeply racist or don’t care what’s going on with black/brown people right now.

If someone is so far up Fox News’ butt that they think nothing wrong is going on, I sure as FUCK don’t want them recruiting my children.

There is a vast difference between being in a different political affiliation and whatever the fuck is going on right now. I don’t want my kids wrapped up in that bullshit and if you support it, just block me now.

I often forget about nebula. I really do like their model. Personally, I think their biggest problem is lacking a free trial. They’re curating, so I expect they’ll have some pretty solid content. But every time I consider them I go and browse their catalog and I don’t recognize most of it, and that what I do recognize is marginally interesting to me, but not worthy of payment.

I suspect their closed model is because it’s very expensive to host that data, and they want to make sure that whoever they put up there is worth spending the money on. Return on investment, yada, yada.

I think its obvious that it would/will go awry.

I’m not even sure that is possible, but I’d like to see us try something.

Maybe the best place to start is by allowing a microtransaction service into the UI and let people add their own API keys to known players.

Non-Gated Microtransactions in Peertube would be pretty cool. I don’t know that it would amount to anything, but it would be a damn good start

Not OP, but I’d work real fucking hard to give us something that can be a viable alternative to Youtube where a corporate monopoly doesn’t take 95% of the cash. It doesn’t even need to be federated, but we all see the shithole Odysee immediately became. We have a substantial number of people here with like interests and marginally like feelings on a lot of topics that would make great video content.

Peertube has been around for 7 years, and there isn’t enough content on it to occupy even a Linux nerd for more than 30 minutes a week. People are only making videos on YouTube because they can make some semblance of a living at it.

I think giving people who are willing to create videos some decent tools for monetization in open products would be a reasonably good idea. We have nothing there now; we don’t have anything to lose by it. It’s not like great content that doesn’t exist can be walled off to us.

This could be as easy as forking peertube and putting in patreon privitization links. Or it could be a federated version of KoFi that ties in.

It’s not you, it’s the world changing around you, or perhaps the world perceiving to change around you. I’m not sure the world has changed all that much, I think a lot of it is just us having better optics than we ever had. Rockefeller and Vanderbilt probably indirectly hurt/killed more people, but it wasn’t broadcast as easily as it is now.

Damn good points.

Youngest is younger that. I’m just not letting him chat until he’s a teen

Eldest has had all the appropriate talks before he got on discord.

Not from a multi-race household I see.

If little Timmy’s parents start talking about “those kids” my kids isn’t playing with him. Too many racist fucks out there.

We have a 15 minute conversation to find out if they’re batshit crazy slur calling racist trumpeters because we dont need to subject our kids to that shit.

I find it insane that you wouldn’t take 15 minutes to get to know who your kids influencers are, but you do you.

Running on a 2016 intel processor with an old Nvidia 2070. I can watch about 3 streams on different devices at the same time.

EEPROM’s are fun. If you want more of that, check out Ben Eater on YouTube, he has a giant series on building an 8-bit computer from scratch. he actually goes through the whole design philosophy. There’s a lot of ‘new’ stuff in there that’s not entirely boring.

The younger kid’s chat is disabled. not allowed to friend anyone.

The older kid has chat enabled, but is only allowed to friend people we vet.

Computers are in an open area, chats have been keylogged, we check occasionally.

If friends show up unanounced, or they chat where they’re not supposed to, they lose internet access long enough to regret it

When they get old enough to have friends online, we contact the parents, make sure they’re compatible politically, theologogically, just generally not extremists and their kids have some base level of dicipline and are safety minded.

We also semi-regularly play with them and set rules about the appropriateness of the games in relation to the kids ages. The younger one’s don’t get to play the violent ones.

Ohh fuck yes, I support antivirus, but only on Windows, maybe, possibly OSX. If you give bare Windows to a kid, they’ll have viruses as soon as they learn to use Google.

TBF, Fam gets my guest network. It’s not allowed to touch anything in my house, they can only route through. DHCP sends their DNS to 4.2.2.2 and 8.8.8.8, They can’t even touch my DNS, they can’t see any of my home automation and they can’t see each other. They can push the connection as hard as they want, the QOS won’t let them take priority.

He had committed enough legal homicide; he was practically asking for it.

No, no, that’s old Anti-Christian… The new stuff is all Toxic Empathy™.

hmm interesting point. They can afford the new price so it’s an advantage to them. A new way to keep the poor down.