Mildly Infuriating

Turning a CD into the equivalent of a vynil. Now that's something I never expected. Looks like a CD could fit maybe 3 tracks?

I'm also mostly de-Googled now. I'm not signed in anywhere and don't use most of the google stuff. It wasn't really that hard since there are great alternatives. But saying no to YouTube and all the nice channels I'm following is really hard.

I've started getting captcha every time I do a Google search. Not sure what that's about but it's made the decision to pursue alternatives easy.

Its always the same when some big tech company says its to protect you or the community.

No it is a community. It's just that they're lying that this is protecting it.

No I don't use a VPN

That doesn't make sense though, since they can just create a bunch of free accounts for the bots to use.

Yeah, it's funny. The bots are actually logged in to shitpost.

I tried Nebula for a while and as the others said, it is worth it, but not enough to replace YouTube for me.

I spent a year with it, it wasn't enough to completely replace youtube but if you have the money I definitely felt it was worth it. I only let it run out for money reasons

Great platform with a ton of amazing creators. Definitely worth a subscription, but not a full replacement for yt. Revanced can at least get rid of the ads/improve ux.

Most "non tech-savvy" people I've tried to explain the concept of open source software and initiatives like the Fediverse to just outright don't trust them. Whilst they might say they'd prefer for software and services to not track or manipulate them if you asked them directly, they can't truly conceive of tech that doesn't.

The only interactions these people have had with the digital world have been as part of the modern data scraping hellscape that was once termed "Web 2.0" after the internet went mainstream in the '00s. They weren't part of the internet when it was a niche interest and more open, so they know no better and accept that predatory behaviour as the way of things.

I'm not an expert in psychology but I don't think it's overly dramatic to say it puts me in mind of those poor individuals who were abused as children, never received therapy and go on to seek out other abusers in adulthood.

The masses don't know how to search for information anymore. Not only that, but they are unable to do so with the disparity of their understanding of the search engines and the current state of search engines. People are used to being fed information through an algorithm, and those who control the algorithm aren't about to promote a competitor that'd take away their money.

Is it possible for creators to earn money on PeerTube? If not, maybe that's what's holding a lot of them back. And of course the fact that most people don't know what PeerTube is. It should be easily accessible for everyone and have some kind of system to give the creators money. And make the switch from YouTube easy.

Accessibility, usability, scalability at very, very large scale, actual searchability, and actual return on investment, because some people actually get money from youtube?

Actually, peertube, depending on the instance and the popularity of the content, can be incredibly frustrating for a viewer. And it can be frustrating to the content creator. Some people are quick to dismiss minor (and less minor) annoyances, are able to look for fixes, and so on, but for almost everyone? The experience is nightmareish, with incertain returns (or no returns at all, as it stands).

Once you fix all that, you might have a chance to convince larger entities to move to peertube. Well, more realistically, to host their own instance. Well, more realistically, to host multiple instances, because really some people would hammer the platform down with each video. See the issue yet?

It also does it sometimes if you’re on a VPN.

Or tubular!