To show them what Lemmy is, link them to https://lemmy.world/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=New

The important thing is to link them to the “New” page, because the Active page doesn’t change that frequently.

Then if they are interested, show them how to sign up for an account at Lemmy World, how to join communities, how to block communities and how to comment and post.

More shock and awe economic policy.

Albania. In particular southern Albania near Greece. Most places are good, but if you like the beach, Saranda. If you like history, Gjirokaster.

Jared Golden, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Henry Cuellar, and Ed Case

Yeah. Maybe call it microtransactions. Or maybe make it a game where you get “stickers” you can post on videos you like. “Stickers” being the equivalent of a like with your avatar posted somewhere on the video page.

When I look at the trending videos on YouTube, it makes me want to become a hermit and have no contact with society, the videos are so bad. I think the money side of YouTube has totally corrupted it.

As a PeerTube creator, I make videos as a way to teach/inform/entertain, not to make money. One way to make PeerTube work is to find a way to fund the hosts/instances that transcode and store the video files.

It would be interesting to create a crypto coin and have PeerTube users, both creators and viewers, to buy a small amount of the coin (a few dollars worth) when they register, then each video that they watch costs a small fraction of a coin paid to the instance hosting the video, and the viewer could add a tip to the creator if they liked the video. The amount paid to the instance might be an approximation of the cost to host the video. Accumulating the coin might be a game not an income source for the creators, but there might be enough money to fund the instances with this scheme.

There certainly is value in quality video that people are willing to pay for. It would be nice to find an alternative to advertising based video.

Another side of video that YouTube is not doing a good job at is creating community. The comment section is hard to follow, impossible to search, and it is transient, as new videos are created, comments on old videos disappear. I don’t know how to do it, but creating a forum or a lemmy group for each creator or each video interest group with multiple creators involved would be extremely powerful.

Hopefully we can block it.

Another episode in the series: “Krasnov Speaks”.

How do you do that?

Zelensky For President!

Trump is a Russian agent.

His reward was imprisonment and a bullet to the head.

It is a shame that SPD and Union did not work together in the last government to try to resolve some of the problems that cause the voters to move to the right.

Another analog is that eastern Germany voted very differently than western and southern Germany.

One major difference, in 1930 the far right was anti-Russia, and today they are pro-Russia.

Russia Loving Republicans. Trump is a Russian asset. Treat the US government like an enemy.

The value of Grayjay and other similar apps (Freetube, Newpipe) is based on their ability to continue to show Youtube video. If Youtube finds a way to block these apps, they will not be popular.

Thats good for about 5 minutes

What does buying a license get you?