Not who you’re asking, but I wouldn’t have wanted to be born cis
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I can also be found on the microblog fediverse at @ada@blahaj.zone or on matrix at @ada:chat.blahaj.zone
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Me. Before I transitioned, and in my early days of transition, sure, I’d have made that choice if it were available to me. But now, years in? Fuck no. I don’t want to be cis.
Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•a harry potter fan's guide to navigating pride monthEnglish42·2 months agoWhat is going on with your moral compass that you believe that sometimes, funding bigots doesn’t make you a shitty person, yet also lets you believe that disagreeing with you on that issue topic is enough to qualify someone as a shitty person?
If you can make an exception for people funding Rowling, you can make space for them disagreeing with you, without pretending that they’re the problem
Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Fediverse@lemmy.world•lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this monthEnglish21·2 months agothis is why lemmy will never beat corporate owned services
Which famously, never shut down and take their content with them :P
Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Fediverse@lemmy.world•lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this monthEnglish17·2 months agoYou create the community on another instance. You update the lemm.ee version with a sticky post and sidebar edit to let people know the new location. Do that before lemm.ee closes down, and even people that find the lemm.ee version of the group after the instance is gone will still be able to find your new location
Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Migrating communities in the wake of the lemm.ee shutdownEnglish12·2 months agoWell, the managed communities will pin posts and update their descriptions before the shut down happens, and those details will federate to every instance with users that subscribe to the communities.
Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Fediverse@lemmy.world•TubeFree is a new Peertube by BT FreeEnglish41·2 months agoMost people don’t start making videos to make money. In the early Tube days there was no money.
Absolutely. I’m one of them. But there’s a lot of peertube instances that serve that need.
The OP was talking about creating a moderated instance, with high production quality requirements for members, with the possibility of charging for extra upload capacity etc. And that narrows the field down to people who either make their living from producing video content, or want to make their living from producing video content. That’s the group I was talking about
PeerTube only has 1 less avenue for monetization than YT, among dozens.
Absolutely, but the one its missing is a major source of income for most professionals and semi professionals who make their living from video content. And folk who rely on YouTube advertising aren’t just going to be able to drop YouTube for Peertube whilst keeping a consistent income stream. Which means the OP (and the OP specifically, not peertube in general) will need to make space for allowing those users to exist in a way that encourages them to move to Peertube, without cutting off the income they currently make from centralised corporate platforms.
My partner and I run a peertube instance out of our own pockets, and we make videos and host other folk making videos, without caring about their quality or experience. For us, it’s about giving folk voices. But I wasn’t talking about peertube in general, or folk like myself, I was addressing the OPs situation
Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Fediverse@lemmy.world•TubeFree is a new Peertube by BT FreeEnglish201·2 months agoAt the moment, its challenging for creators to generate income from Peertube. In theory, the avenue they have is through patreons and the like, but in practice, peertube doesn’t yet have the volume of users to make that work. And as a result, it’s going to be hard to use any kind of “premium/paid” tier service, simply because there won’t be many takers.
In my mind, right now, if you’re trying to attract creators, you’re going to need to reduce as many barriers as you can for them to move over. That may mean co-existing accounts on bigtech platforms and on peertube, and in terms of helping with your running costs, voluntary donations are the best way of doing it for now, until peertube gets a larger volume of users.
Either way, we spun up our own peertube instance a few weeks ago too, so welcome to the vidiverse :)
Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Peersuite p2p encrypted discord alternativeEnglish6·2 months agoThank you! I’ll be watching with great interest! Lots of potential :)
Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Peersuite p2p encrypted discord alternativeEnglish19·2 months agoA couple of questions. If I was trying to keep a consistent workspace to build a community around, would it be persistent after the host logs off, and are their tools to protect it from trolls etc who discover it a workspace?
Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space.English2·2 months agoUnless you want to talk about transphobia, racism, LGBTQ rights etc, etc, in which case, you live on the edge constantly wondering when YT is going to demonetize you
Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space.English10·2 months agoPeertube and pixelfed have that built in to the individual instances. It is something I’d like to see more widespread
Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space.English13·2 months agoMost platforms have their “join lemmy” or “join Mastodon” equivalents already
Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space.English37·2 months agoGateways that ease the pain of entrance to the fediverse are a good thing. A single, centralised gateway that defacto controls all access to the fediverse is exactly what I’m trying to get away from
Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Improving the Fediverse to allow it to actually take over the social media space.English9·2 months agoFrom my perspective, that’s not something I’d use, or at least, it wouldn’t have been much use to me when I was a young closeted queer person in small town Australia. It wouln’t have been much help finding my peers
Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoLemmy Support@lemmy.ml•Hey all! How do I contact the lazy social admin?3·3 months agoFrom the info in their sidebars, it looks like the best approach is to make a post at !meta@lazysoci.al, or tag lazynooblet@lazysoci.al
Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharingEnglish11·3 months agoAll I read in these threads is effectively “WAAAH I don’t WANNA pay!”… Without realizing that the payment gave them something significantly more secure.
I’ve never used Plex, but the thing that stopped me from looking at it isn’t that it’s a paid service. It’s that it’s partially centralised, and starting to become hostile to its user base. This current change, locking down a previously free feature being an iconic example of that.
My partner and I fund two decently sized fediverse instances and a matrix instance mostly out of our own pockets. We do that precisely because we have both actively chosen to move away from centralised, user hostile social media platforms. And whilst Plex isn’t a social media platform, it is centralised and becoming more user hostile, and I won’t pay for that.
(And to be clear, I’m front of house, I’m not responsible for setting up our instances security :P)
Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharingEnglish14·3 months agoPut it behind a reverse proxy!
We use a self hosted reitti instance instead now