@Gargron When are we going to get a silhouetted picture of you and your wife walking down the street with the Mastodon plushie being held between the two of you?
You ever write a long post and after you've finished you delete it because you suddenly realize that you just don't give a fuck as much as you thought you did?
@peertube with no hesitation dropped a truth bomb today...
"The realization that led us to develop PeerTube is that no one can rival YouTube or Twitch. You would need Google’s money, Amazon servers’ farms... Above all, you would need the greed to exploit millions of creators and videomakers, groom them into formatting their content to your needs, and feed them the crumbs of the wealth you gain by farming their audience into data livestock."
People act like Gmail came in and afterwards there were no more email providers. Did a lot of people use it? Yes. Did it somehow kill off all off the small email providers? No. Some of them? Sure. All? No.
Why did I switch from Gmail to Proton? Because I stopped trusting Gmail. And felt that I could trust Proton more. Can I still email someone that uses Gmail? Yes. Do I have to support Gmail? No.
The purpose of an open protocol is choice. Otherwise why bother making it open?