There are PeerTube servers that allow a certain reasonable amount of content for free.

PeerTube is also a Fediverse service, and does the longer form videos, like YouTube. It mostly works fine; it just lacks content.

Side question: What do you use as an RSS reading?

So, you’re being negative about an alpha release of someone’s hard work without checking it out first?

Especially if he lives in a vacuum.

Can someone please translate EoP for me?

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. It’s a fantastic book about comics and visual arts in general.

This is exactly my training, too.

Venture capitalists funded it, and when their money runs out, they must be paid.

Bluesky users will be advertised to. Their information will be sold. No thanks!

Sad to hear this news.

Balatro and Slay the Spire both have a lot of reply value. Very different games.

We’ll, uBlock 😎

Proton indeed looks like honeypot to me.

What makes you think that?

Genuinely asking, since I literally signed up for their paid email service earlier in the week.

Proton has labels & folders both.

They are in competition with Mastodon, and have a marketing budget.

Five years from now, those platforms will become enshittified as their budgets dry up. They will need to milk the users for revenue. Well see another surge in a few years, until they learn that Mastodon is actually better.

And then #2 will be copied by other people and AIs, becoming seen as fact.

And then #2 will be copied by other people and AIs, becoming seen as fact.

Russian cunts

Kinda repeating yourself here.

I’ve never seen one of these, but about 5 years ago I saw a gravy dispenser at a gas station for biscuits & gravy.

I passed.

That’s Cameron’s story, of how he survived having a shitty dad and a shitty friend.

Brave’s CEO is so anti-gay, he dished out 4-figure checks to fight gayness.

I’m not a fan of that, and Brave has issues with being Chromium-based, like Vivaldi.