Notices by 3dcandy (3dcandy@mastodon.social)

@nixCraft only problem is that rampant gossiping and laziness still exist whilst working from home.... I know of literally hundreds of examples and it is so harder to control when not in an office environment. Not saying you haven't got a point but it happens both ways

@arstechnica Oh the EU will love that obvious breach of data and privacy laws won't they. Lawsuit incoming - I can see linkedin being banned in the EU if they aren't careful

@nixCraft you can opt out and it is opt-in so by default there isn't AI
Whilst not perfect, it's the best I've seen so far from the mainstream major browsers. I understand your stance on AI but honestly if you want to be away from AI completely, well your only option is to leave the internet now whilst you can

@arstechnica that can only be a good thing. Don't pay him everybody!

@wjmaggos why?

@aral but we should also give them the choice....
This is why I advocate a per person block. The choices are there, it is up to people to be educated about the choice of instance. This is a core feature - join an instance that aligns with what YOU want and go from there. It is a whole different way of thinking...
There is no right or wrong way here. But saying that a platform is OK because of a choice made by someone is very counter-productive when the whole ecosystem made choices to help this

@aral of course they don't care it's called choice. That is why I advocate a per person block and is also why they federate. The tools are there so use them. When a platform has several ways to achieve the same thing and you can also choose an instance that does or does not block these choices are powerful.

@aral Harsh - I don't think people should federate with threads. Meta has over and over again abused its market position to make money. The only difference I would say is that people should do a per person block of threads.net
Yes Meta is toxic. Yes Meta is bad. The sheer amount of lawsuits make that clear. If people don't federate then threads will make its own way in the world. Meta don't need federation it is just a way to make more money and abuse their power

@pixelfed I have said this elsewhere - the issues I have seen is because a lot of activitypub instances are already blocking threads. This causes lots of things to be a bit strange in the matrix!

@Gargron Congrats!

@aral no guesses what org or person then....

@pixelfed applied!

@arstechnica it's the matrix bro innit

@Gargron I noticed straight away and I like it!

@Gargron Apple have, and always will be, a terrible company who think they are way above everybody else....

@nixCraft same.... still works fine and dandy

@feditips @jarocats this is it. I'm not knocking peertube, it is fantastic and a a great product. But video has changed a lot even in 2023. And as you just said the traffic simply isn't there compared to things like youtube, vimeo, tiktok even - all of which rely on ads. As it grows we shall see - and at the moment it is grwoing but slowly. V6 and password protection will make it a much better way to get a revenue stream. Onwards and upwards! Mastodon needs groups as well to flourish

@feditips @jarocats how often do you think that happens in the real world? And that is what I mean... the peertube animation and most of the documentation is outdated in many ways. I'm not knocking it...but in practice it doesn't happen often enough any more.

@feditips @jarocats yep get that - but in practice it rarely happens.It's really really rare in fact, they need to be watching the same video in roughly the same time etc. It helps but not as much as you think, if you check the packets of data 99% come from the originating peertube instance. There isn't time to go into why it happens, we would be here for ages but believe me you are contributing very little in bandwidth to other peertube instances. Peertube has evolved beyond p2p

@feditips @jarocats Don't get me wrong - I understand what you are saying, but most instances now use transcoding. Once you enable transcoding then p2p is not used very much as hls doesn't really work like that. You'd have to have a copy on your server of the video for it to be a real p2p transfer. You have share videos enabled but that's not p2p because you and most instances have transcoding enabled. When peertube moved to hls streaming a lot of p2p was made redundant.