I'm committed to open source (or at the very least indie dev) more than to a single platform.

Well:

• I'm annoyed at calling people who dislike an app and choose another website "refugees"
• I'm happy that we're going to have more activity
• I hope more instances will be built and maintained, because I don't think the large number of new members can be moderated effectively if they keep flocking to the same handful of instances
• When in doubt, I hope moderators will be too strict rather than not enough, especially in the beginning to make sure the behavioural expectations are very clear

Honeypots - ask a very easy question, but make it hidden on the website so that human users won't see it and bots will answer it.

There are porn servers, they just usually don't federate with other servers. I've seen a couple but lost the links.

Being LGBTQ+, or not white, or not a man, or disabled.

As many potential rooms as possible in as many locations as possible, and no way to distinguish the right one. Of course, rotate it regularly.

Firefox user here.

• Bitwarden password manager
• Bypass Paywalls Clean
• Clear URLs remove URL trackers
• Highlight or Hide Search Engine Results to hide some unwanted websites from search results
• Open in VLC™ media player, useful for some weird streams
• Push to Kindle sends any text article to PDF or to your ereader (not only Kindle)
• Recipe Filter filters recipe pages on blogs and just gets the actual ingredients & instructions
• Redirector for a few paywalls where I use a specific proxy
• RSS Reader Extension (by Inoreader) - as I use Inoreader for following RSS feeds
• Sci Hub Injector adds sci-hub links to many science publishing websites for easy access
• Shinigami Eyes highlights trans-friendly and transphobic social media users or websites
• uBlock Origin
• ViolentMonkey for userscripts

Extensions to be helpful to other people:

• Picket Line Notifier tells you if the website you are visiting has workers on strike - useful especially for ecommerce & news publishers
• Snowflake is not noticeable for me, but allows other people to use my network as a Tor node or something idk
• Wayback Machine archives every page I visit on the Internet Archive.

Fediverse extensions:

• FediAct allows me to boost, reply to, follow, etc. on any Mastodon instance without having to open the right link in my own instance. I wish there was something like this for Lemmy and Peertube.
• Fedishare allows for one-click sharing to several Fediverse platforms, including Lemmy and Mastodon
• PeerTubeify tries to check if a YouTube video you're watching is also on PeerTube

Youtube extensions:

• Auto HD / 4k / 8k pour YouTube™ - I use it for the environment, so default quality is 480px (because usually I watch the videos on a small side window so it doesn't change the visible quality)
• Clickbait Remover for YouTube - replaces thumbnails with a frame from the video and makes all titles normally named, no all caps
• DF YouTube (Distraction Free) - removes the homepage & sidebar on videos to avoid rabbit holes
• SponsorBlock auto-skips sponsored segments, intros, credit rolls, etc. on YouTube videos

The good: we didn't have people constantly asking the same basic questions instead of opening the support/chat community and seeing that 4 other people had made the same post the same day.

The bad: we didn't have people.

Sewing is useful and satisfying. I'd like to say it's also easy but I have never figured it out myself (which doesn't say much, anything that involves using my hands is... questionable)

Here are my notes on the video. Formatting may be a bit broken so you can also find it on my website.

Foundational concepts of a library economy

Advantges of a library economy are:

• Less production
• No wasted things in storage
• No point for excess and planned obsolescence

Usufruct

Based on Murray Bookchin's The Economy of Freedom.

Usufruct is the freedom of individual or groups to access and use (but not destroy) common resources to supply their needs - as opposed to limitation of access based on exclusive ownership.

Imagine this applied to: libraries of decor, libraries of furniture, libraries of tools. You could borrow cushion, designs, paintings, then switch things out; you could borrow a shovel for a weekend or while you need it.

_A note from Alex:
__My hometown has an art library that belongs to the city library network. They have loads of paintings, and you can borrow 3 paintings for 3 months at a time, for free, with the only obligation being that you need your home to be insured.
Bibliothèques de Grenoble
_

Irreducible minimum

Guaranteed minimum resources to sustain life, that everyone should have access to regardless of their individual contribution to the community.

Libraries provide free access to knowledge (note from Alex: and fun!), but that's just one component.

Libraries of consumables (food, drugs, toiletries...) might be difficult to imagine. A library economy needs dispensaries of necessities: a cooking collective, with common farming, could work to provide everyone with enough food.

An emphasis on slow fashion by diverse retailers would ensure clothing that lasts, in the style we like. For this we'd need a vast reorientation of all our priorities.

Complementarity

People must choose themselves how they labour and how they leisure. Nothing should be defined by, or limited to, what they contribute themselves. They should always get satisfaction and joy from what they do.

For the things that no one enjoys, find ways to rotate, gamify or transform these tasks.

Imagining a library economy

Based on 5 laws of library science, first conceived by S.R. Ranganathan in 1931.

1. Books are for use: things are meant to be used, not hoarded. Make them accessible: location, hours of operation, comfort & quality of service.
2. Every person has their book.
3. Every book has its reader. Applied more broadly: develop a collection that's as broad as possible to serve all needs and wants, no matter how niche, because that's what creates an abundant life.
4. Try to save the time of the user. Libraries require a lot of effort to maintain. We need systems, services, etc. to manage the resources as efficiently as possible.
5. A library is a growing organism. A library economy should always be growing and evolving, the project is never complete.

A few common concerns

• Will this system make us dependent on others? We already depend on others.
• How would we provide for everyone? We definitely have the technological capacity to do it, we just don't distribute it fairly as of now.
• I like owning things, I don't have to borrow things I use all the time! Nothing says you're not allowed to own stuff! Keep everything as long as you need, but also, if you really love something and use it enough to justify owning it, get your own!
• What about scarcity? The community should organize to distribute things efficiently: booking times, wait lists...
• Who administers this system? We must all administer it and have a say in the decisions. Popular assemblies will allow for that. We can have a few people full-time for administration etc.

Visualize pockets of library economies that connect with one another and end up spreading worldwide!

I bought an apartment 600kms away from my job two months ago.

I'll report back on how it turned out when I move there and find out whether they decide to fire me.

You should post here: !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

This is not a technical support community.

(but also i've had the same issue since the last lemmy update, i suppose a bug made its way in there.)

As said above, but shorter: the videos are stored on the servers like on a "regular" video hosting website. If there are peers available, then it relies on P2P for whatever's working; if not, it acts like a regular video website.

To share fragments of a video I need to be consciously in the video?

I actually have no idea about this one!

Communities don't need to have a single specific language and being able to share in our own language in a general community, especially outside of English, would be amazing. I know I've posted some content to book-related communities in French and was glad not to post to an empty French community, and I got some interaction on this.

Agree with Flaky that we really need a default language choice to not have to set it up every time, though.

The Wire

Mr. Teatime is really good.

Does Rust count as a villain? Can't say he brings much good to the series as a person!

I think it's good etiquette. I also think that as you said:

I find it frustrating, personally–but only if I’m not currently paying for the material, because if I am then I’m logged in and likely won’t notice.

I never share a paywalled article on purpose, but since I don't notice if it's paywalled for my premium subscriptions, I often get it wrong. I'd really rather see a Lemmy-side automated flag rather than users having to check themselves every time they share (and often failing, because they're humans).

I think a Magazine is the equivalent of a Lemmy Community.

I like the website as is.

That's a good point, thanks for adding some nuance :)