Use yt-dlp to download all videos. Most RSS readers can automatically fetch YouTube channels.

Set the computer to download what you want overnight.

Upside: Recommendations will not appear.

Downside: I don't know if you can 'Chromecast' videos. I just have a small computer attached to my TV (any computer will do).

The internet's fine - the web's the problem.

ssh, Call of Duty, email, random voice-call software on strange ports - all of them work fine. People have problems with websites.

Plenty of websites of course are fine, the problems present when people use search engines and find a bunch of guff written by a bot, Paywalls, and sign-up screens.

They say the best way to predict the future is to create it, so if you want to help there, 'make good art', write and share good content, don't feed the machine. Sounds like you're doing that already if you're on Lemmy.

And if you want to check out a quieter corner of the internet, where things aren't all in-your-face-sing-up-click-here-now-NOW-DOIT...download the lagrange browser and check out Gemini. It's a mostly plain-text protocol, where people read and write, and sometimes share whacky music.

Let's find out.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=jnLScLsHNa8

In all fairness to the devs, Lemmy's had a dozen users + the devs until now, then /u/spez pulls his stunt, and we're looking at how it operates with 0.0000000000001% of Reddit, which is apparently 20-bajillion people.

I don't think anyone can tell where we're going. Mastodon.social was the largest instance by far for some time, then at the deluge, it splintered.

Part of the reason for Mastodon to fracture is specialization - each instance does something unique. Maybe Lemmy will do the same, maybe not.

But if we end up with 3 primary instances, it's still decentralized - I think the most useful feature of Lemmy isn't that we're spread out, it's that we could be.

More like a teenager with their first job.

This week, Lemmy becomes a man.

I still feel like I need a new term for this. Yet another word co-opted by idiots.

Kbin is new, the distinctions between Magazine and micro-blogging creates an extra barrier to understand the system, the few instances are straining under the load, and it's very much in beta.

New users won't be terribly forgiving, so I feel like Lemmy's the better option.

I never understood why questionable views from software devs might be a problem.

• It's not a corporation, so you're not financially supporting tankies.
• Lots of devs don't share your values, because everyone has different values.

It's not like I can only use software made by people who don't eat meat, and everyone's doctors are partially informed by science performed by the Nazis.

I have no idea what kind of world these people think they're living in, as if everything were developed with shared values, and a pure conscience, until Lemmy came along.

Kbin is very young software. The dev was doing really well, then /u/spez dumped 10-bajillion users on it. I'm surprised the servers are still operating.

Lemmy's a lot more mature, but it's never been tested with this kind of traffic. It's impressive that any of these sites are still going. I'd give it at least another month until things settle, adjustments are made, instances update, et c. et c.

Users are unable to block whole instances

Sounds like a good feature, though not exactly a 'disadvantage', without a comparison. Is the comparison Mastodon? Reddit?

Lemmy is one of the least privacy friendly service I have ever stumbled upon

Could you expand on this? Is it just the deletion problem?

There is no possibility to migrate or backup your subscribed/favorited stuff or even move it to another instance (which somehow is possible on Mastodon),

This took a while to get on Mastodon. Remember, the data's not necessarily stored in a usable format (users don't want a load of postgres in their download), and the devs need to be sure that nobody else's data will accidentally get in there.

There's a Github issue about it here.

There's a lot to answer on what exactly that would mean. Would you be able to edit old posts from the new instance? What if the new instance already defederated from the old? Would you retain the same username? Or are you simply getting a list of subscriptions, and copying them across?

Nah. I want to defederate from people sharing racial slurs, because I cba with them. If they don't consider that a 'consequence' then I don't really care.

I definitely don't want consequences for people sharing negative opinions about governments.

So I guess I just want freedom of speech + personal curation.

This is what I see.

The apps are certainly in need of all the help they can get. I have Lemur and Jerboa, and they're both janky as all heck.

I feel like the Malkavians need mechanical solutions for these problems.

On derangements: something like 'you go mad when it's a full moon' is vague. I feel like it'd be easier with a just any system, for example 'renew all Willpower during a full moon, but lose one each scene thereafter', which encourages the player to try just about anything during that night.

Twisting the mechanics also means the player doesn't lose agency by thinking 'oh well, time to act crazy I guess'.

On the combat problem: I feel like this is a symptom of a larger problem with the system. Combat has a system - it has levers everywhere which do things. Nothing else does, and you can't push buttons which aren't there.

I've solved the second problem by replacing Combat rules with general 'Contest' rules -- a single system for Extended and Resisted actions, which works for Investigations, competing companies, or snide remarks at Elysium...and sword fights, if you must.

When you cook well, you can eat the food.

When the bot says something, you always need to look up if it's correct. That's the 'cook a new meal from scratch' bit, not the 'taste it' bit.

You need to look things up every time, or do the taste test by asking if the bot's answer 'smells true' (which is tempting, but a bad idea).

Haggis whiskers are similar, but quite rare nowadays.

About 50% of what I read online is just RSS. For cli fans, newsboat lets you extend the RSS feeds really easily. So far, I have:

• gemini translation, to get gemini feeds, and a hotkey to open them.
• a hotkey to open things in w3m (most articles work fine in the terminal, many are easier to read)
• a hotkey to open youtube videos
• another to download them and watch later

I run a RockPro64 with Arch Arm. No need for a monitor - you just connect over SSH.

For online-usage, nothing will ever beat spreadsheets. They exist to crunch numbers and compare values. They work with both text and numbers. And they're flexible.

• Want to add +2 to perception for elves? Check if race = "Elf" and if so, add +2.
• Want to add a fixed list of weapons for the player to choose from? Stick the entire list on a secret sheet, then reference them in a drop-down menu.

If a bespoke tool ever came out, it would only do one system, badly. Spreadsheets do any system, and the skills you learn with them are transferrable to almost all other spreadsheet programmes.

There's my indie RPG character spreadsheet (requires Libreoffice Calc). Fill in your name, and it'll use numerological constants to find your race and stats, then tracks your XP every time you buy a skill.

People want to use something like a pdf because it looks like paper, but this instinct is wrong. PDFs are for printing. Their fill-in text boxes are ugly, and programming them is clunky.