The amount of butt kissing in this message is much more disturbing to me than the spam character or the gore.

Everything is more complex as youtube because youtube has spent billions to make you get sucked in and make it easy to stay on the page.

Peertube is foss software and needs to be improved by a small number of paid devs and normal people like you and me.

You dont make a peertube account just like a youtube or google account. You can use mastodon for that and also subscribe to channels that way. It needs better documentation though. Feel free to ask if you need further assistance.

there is a big difference between them holding onto the purse and them being able to put walls of paper in front of anyone trying to access it. The more transparent and voted over publicly that is, the more it should actually function.

Strongly disagree

Help me here. My understanding is that you can dual license something, for example agpl (not ever to be taken closed source) and a pay for it if you want to build something proprietary with it, no? Let me know what real world example would spell doom here.

Thats valuable insight. Thank you.

I‘d like to point out that the bureucrats are a different problem we need go get rid of as well. It does not mean the idea of publicly funding this stuff is bad. I think the reason why bureaucracy takes over is lack of public oversight and influence by the people.

If you take sidestreets of law (ie bancruptcy law in some countries) you will find yourself in the wild west because only a small fraction of people ever has to take this road. The people in charge behave like warlords because normal people dont know and care.

But yes, people should dual license their shit so that corpos have to pay for it.

I dont think thats gonna fly, honestly. We also need people to vote pro people and pro planet instead of pro billionaires or pro nationalism.

I also dont think its helpful to throw shit at the people using the software because thats how we know the software is good.

Imo, we should implement systems that fund software that attracts users without it using predatory marketing and privacy invasive. Ideally we just push taxes for large companies higher and give the funds to foss devs who attract most users/uses of their software/libraries. That should do the trick.

Thats exactly what I do. A couple of friends use my vps and it has many fediverse services running with 99% uptime.

They throw some dollars my way and I kick a share to the devs and other software that runs this place. I‘m also putting in hours to improve the software and coming up with ideas how to distribute the money better.

What we need is better organization. People need to know about this, talk about it and make plans together imo.

Someone takes out tchncs.de and your account and my alt are gone. My main account will still be there. „Decentralized“ by nature but if people flock together in good old manner they will break the system.

I agree 100%. Still, I dont think most people will donate until they have to and this will lock those out who cant and drive those away who rather sell their privacy. Maybe lemmy (and other foss) should go full wikipedia mode and have banners all over the place until you donate even a dollar. I donate 1$ a week (not the only project I donate to either).

Then, on the other hand countries should have programmes to fund this kind of stuff and it should just happen by user count.

What do you think would be a viable option?

I unsubscribed from kbin for that exact reason a bit earlier. I‘m sad the platform is suffering and the person taking care of it is overwhelmed.

It does show the fundamental flaw of foss software. People should really donate even small amounts to these platforms so they can afford more dev time.

I feel like this needs to be addressed soon in general, not only in this case.

You too! :))

Thanks. Good to hear one person gets it. Maybe its because I have answered so many of your comments that you were able to see the joke and others thought I was trying to nag at you for some perceived behavioral code violation or whatever. In any case. Please go on being awesome. Love reading your comments.

So far you‘re doing pretty well in my book. Most comments I read with spot on takes happen to have your name on it.

Nobody’s perfect though. I get it. :)

i struggle to understand the downvotes though. Maybe I worded it strange?

I might just visit your post and comment history instead of curating my own feed by now. :) best takes

I think they meant for five minutes because if you won, you won right?

I‘m self employed in IT and host a couple services for people. Small, local business.

My experience so far is that few outside of IT understand why big tech isnt a viable option and even fewer are willing to accept that imperfection when it comes to services that have a proprietary option.

Obviously its pretty early in the game so I guess this will get better and I‘m also not complaining, just stating that peeps need more time and education on this matter.

I‘m attempting to do exactly that for my local community atm. Most people are still reluctant though.

I agree on principle but paying someone would do wonders for the state of self hosting - assuming that the people paid would foward parts to the software devs and help improve the software since they can afford to spend time with the software. Second point is that attempting self hosting only makes sense if someone is actually willing to learn and put time in.

I would not suggest the „average person“ who statistically can only install with „click through“ and extensive description and may require a hotline if things go south to selfhost anything.

Ideally, they should pay a friend or a local small business for hosting for them.

If a person is able to constructively work through bugs and make bug reports and read a lot, yes, they could attempt selfhosting imo. But they should be aware that it is going to be work and its not going to go smooth 100% of the time.

Most lemmy servers now have application processes and check for IPs being the same to prevent attacks afaik. When I helped delete spam posts the large majority was from fringe lemmy servers, none from the big ones.

You can still open up one accound on every server but it takes so much time that it makes no sense imo.

I appreciate the elaborate response. The intricacies of licensing arent fluent in me and the reminder helps.

Copyleft is cool but for OPs question, I would suggest source available at least. My criterion is that I (or op for that matter) can look at the source code of this project, not everyone on every downstream project.

I‘d also distinguish between in and out licensing. If they want to make a product that is not foss, copyleft wont work so reviewing the code would be the smallest denominator imo although I would not use or recommend their software.