“start moderating your nazi hub or we’ll fine you”

Nah. Twitter is a nazi shithole, Facebook has been enabling genocides.

Regulate their asses off.

Protocols, not platforms.

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That’s a great explanation but a really shitty cup of tea.

We recently had a deranged Belarusian throw a Molotov cocktail at the royal palace in Oslo. Not so sure it’s related at all, but funky timing.

Still nice to give frequent reminders that Netanyahu’s cabinet preferred political allies are parties of literal fascists and holocaust deniers.

Whenever Bibi is accusing his political enemies of antisemitism, it’s useful to take a look at who his friends are.

That’s amazing, thanks for sharing!

I don’t generally see videos of politicians, as I get my news primarily from written sources and I don’t have much of an interest in rhetorics. It’s fascinating to see his words are as idiotic as his actions.

I guess he manages to come across as more convincing in Hungarian.

Yeah, for sure. I just take comfort in knowing it bruised his ego a little.

As for getting rid of him it’s going to take a lot more. Poland gives hope, but the situation there was not as bad as in Hungary.

I just hope that him trying to play an increasingly bigger role globally will lead to his downfall somehow. He clearly has a distorted image of himself and his abilities, which is not a great starting point of aspiring dictators.

I think monetisation is more important on Peertube than other federated platforms I can think of.

We want people to post high quality videos on PeerTube. The production of high quality video content requires a lot of work and often also a decent chunk of money to produce. It’s not like a toot or a post on Pixelfed, which is often not labour intensive at all. A photographer or an artist might very well showcase their work on Pixelfed, or an author their writing on Mastodon, but it would not compete with their business idea as people who are interested would still need to buy prints/high resolution versions/ebooks/subscriptions/whatever.

On PeerTube, it’s very different. We want content creators to not only put money and time into creating quality content, but ideally we want them to host the content themselves in order to maintain full control over it. Without monetisation there’s just no reason why they would be interested in doing that.

The question of how is of course much more difficult than the why.

Sponsorships is one obvious candidate. In theory this wouldn’t require anything extra from Peertube - the producers of videos could easily add their own ads within the videos. However, sponsors are only interested in sponsoring content that has an audience, and the audience is on YouTube. Sponsored content is also potentially bad for obvious reasons.

Donations might make more sense, as they scale better to smaller but dedicated audiences. It is difficult to get people to cross the threshold for making them, but it’s not exactly easy to make a profit on YouTube either. Donations good because they encourage quality, rather than ads which tend to favour views over substance.

So finally, traditional ads. We all hate them. They suck, and if they’re incorporated they’ll probably be blocked anyway. But I’m sure there’s a case to be made in their favour - if it’s implemented on the instance level, I certainly wouldn’t be in a position to criticize. It could be necessary in order to host content on free instances, where people could build a following and then move on to self-hosting or join more restrictive ad-free instances should they get the opportunity to.

Personally I wouldn’t be opposed to having a sort of virtual tip jar functionality. I could imagine myself paying $25 into a virtual wallet maintained by Liberapay, and to press a button underneath PeerTube videos to donate $1 to the creator whenever I found something was worthy of kudos. Maybe users with non-empty wallets could be rewarded with extra filters in Sepia search or something like that.

The best answer to why monetisation hasn’t been figured out on PeerTube yet is, however, that it hasn’t been figured out on the Internet in general. It’s just really difficult, and every push towards monetisation tends to be the first step towards any service becoming completely shit. It’s a really difficult problem. The Fediverse and PeerTube might solve some problems by being less dependant on monetisation in the first place, but that doesn’t automatically make it an easy fix. More than anything we probably need an attitude change.

A good start would be to challenge the culture that makes monetisation so difficult, for example by making a donation to FramaSoft. Or simply make active use of the “support” button that already exists under many PeerTube videos. :)

This is beautiful.

May his public embarrassment continue until we’re rid of him for good.

No doubt, fuck Melanchon and whatever horse he rode in on. I don’t understand how they haven’t gotten rid of him already.

Never mind the Holocaust-denying public media-disbanding police-empowering Putin-asskissing Right, the real threat is the pension-giving, minimum wage-setting Left!!

They’re EXTREMIST! Both sides!!

And with any luck they won’t successfully manage to leave the entire continent in ruins this time around. Whenever it works, defeating fascists at the ballot feels so easy that it’s almost anticlimactic.

Everyone involved with organisation these last months know damn well that it wasn’t easy, though. Super proud of the French today! 🇫🇷

In Denmark and Norway the “with best regards” acronym is healthy and well, and I doubt it’ll disappear any time soon.

Mvh Aasatru

Bobbysocks - La det svinge!. 1985, Eurovision, nothing but good vibes. 🎶

I’m just here because I hate capitalists.

I also hate stalinists, so the joke is on me I guess.

In my city cycling is faster even if you’re not stuck in traffic because you can take one way streets and shortcuts. During rush hour it’s not even comparable.

I have a pretty comfy saddle, and if it’s too bumpy I prefer cycling standing up anyway. Don’t really get why people insist so much on sitting down all the time.

It’s not reasonable, but it is understandable. This is why FOSS is the only viable alternative for sustainable computing.

My favourite type of posts is the ones by people signed up in one instance, posting in a community hosted by another instance about how they don’t understand how they are supposed to make use of federation. And then often still not getting it when people from all over the web tell them that they already are.

It makes sense though - federation is sold as a feature for users, but when done right the users should hardly notice it at all. So of course people end up a bit confused.