this article was from 2 days ago, hopefully there will be new light tomorrow. although, reddit's history of corporatising at the expense of users, and their respect thereto, is still significant. let's hope to see some awareness from the less technically & socially active reddit user-base tomorrow :p

so i did cave in and open https://libreddit.kavin.rocks/conservative/new and i promise you all, if this was an ironic subreddit, i would've pinned this to my browser.

it's just too goofy right now and they're all so proud, i cant help but love it.

i hope they continue to "conserve" reddit LOL. @bumblefumble said it best:

"Nothing says conservative like being happy about big and sudden changes."

EDIT: replaced link with libreddit alternative

petition for "mods" to be renamed to beekeepers

louis rossman talks about this in two of his recent videos on twitter and reddit. obviously he tackles it using layman's terms, but there's still a lot of valuable insights and it's super palatable.

essentially it boils down to what @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml says here:

"The valuation of a lot of these sites was grossly inflated by the market, so when the largest shareholders saw their billions halve and know what the future holds, they start doing things to temporarily boost their profit margins and sell off the company."

i really love this and i've shared more than one of your posts with friends outside of the beehaw ecosystem.

these posts are critical in helping me restructure myself and my thinking.

thank you 💛

a bit off-topic but relevant nonetheless:

i know i'm probably in the minority opinion here, but there are better privacy-respecting (and google spiting) platforms for viewing these videos than the official youtube website and rossman has been vocal in his support for these; particularly Odysee. below are 3 different projects, Odysee which is a whole separate and sustainable project, and piped & invidious which are privacy-respecting frontends to youtube. i think in future it'd be valuable to link these alternatives instead of the official youtube link.

https://odysee.com/... -- Odysee

https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=NfiIXooD77s -- Piped

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=NfiIXooD77s -- Invidious

i didn't fully understand that there was an application system, do you mean the "why beehaw" question on the sign-up page? 👀

i didn't add an email either but i feel like i missed some steps cause there wasn't exactly a questionnaire. i just pressed sign up, went to the bathroom, then signed in and it was all good.

thanks for this, i'll include your name in my will.

question for you, if you don't mind. you mention users 'calling in':

"I think the community has already done a wonderful job self-moderating and calling people in, that is to say, encouraging nice behavior."

what does that look like to you in a public discussion format like beehaw? i read the piece that you hyperlinked, and maybe this is just my ignorance showing, but i still don't know how this looks when all of the discussion is primarily 'one-to-many' as opposed to 'one-to-one'; for lack of better phrasing.

this is valuable for reflection. thanks for sharing, i appreciate it

thanks for clarifying

that's a plot twist i'd pay to see

i think platforms like youtube strongly benefit from a like/dislike system because it performs an entirely different function. beehaw is about conversation and dialogue. the way that the downvote button is used on these types of platforms disincentivises meaningful dialogue and silences unpopular opinions, which in turn can further silence minority groups. that's not what we want here.

there's arguments for both sides, but i really like the lack of a downvote button here.

The average sleep cycle is 1hr30mins. I think when we sleep for 6 hours, we complete 4 sleep cycles and wake up refreshed. When we sleep for 7 hours, we wake up mid-cycle. At ~8 hours, we wake up before we get stuck into the middle of a sleep cycle or enter REM.

I read this somewhere online, someone who knows more can verify if this is the actual science. If not, it's a fun hypothesis I'll choose to believe :p

This is a comment from alyaza, one of the mods:

vote brigading is one part of it, but another influence of this decision comes from Tildes, where the emphasis is on quality of discussion and the site accordingly has feedback mechanisms to reflect this–most prominently in lacking a downvote button. (although i should also note we’re going for a more laid-back attitude than Tildes has.) while i’m sure there’s a theoretical way to minimize their impact while maintaining their function, downvotes can easily be used to artificially sway opinion, punish unpopular opinions, etc, and their utility is actually somewhat minimal as a website feature and community control mechanism.

the going theory in removing them therefore is that to express disagreement, you’ll have to at least put some thought into why you disagree with a post, and ideally that will be expressed in the form of a comment which can be used as a further jumping off point for conversation and dialogue. (alternatively, i guess, you could also just accept a disagreement as not necessarily worth your or another person’s time, and move on.)

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Since we're on Lemmy, which uses ActivityPub, I'd first recommend using PeerTube since it's also a fediverse ActivityPub platform. But it's pretty small right now.

Alternatively, Odysee has an established creator base and it's easy for YouTubers to sync video uploads, so it has a real chance at becoming mainstream if we can push adoption outside of the tech-sphere.

In terms of just YouTube privacy-respecting frontends, with your browser I recommend using Piped or Invidious.

For more instances for privacy-respecting front-ends, this link is a good resource. Furthermore, you could consider installing the LibRedirect extension to automatically redirect you to privacy-respecting frontends.

On Android, I strongly recommend downloading LibreTube or NewPipe from the F-Droid store. LibreTube is actually really pretty, so I prefer it to ReVanced on that basis as it doesn't require any level of login to manage a subscription list I think. Newpipe is already very well established and I use it personally, very good app.

Happy to answer any questions, but I'm not an engineer, I'm just a guy :p

i'd wager it's probably the opposite precisely because they own all these :p

there was a guy who was racist so amazon shut down his smart home (i don't know the extent, but inexcusable to me nonetheless).

just some hypotheticals. please tell me i'm crazy and please tell me exactly why i'm crazy. this is dystopian:

imagine someone attends a protest and the government uses this intel (see original post) to know who they are and plants evidence to incarcerate them. or starts a public shame campaign like in china.

imagine legislation that set out to “mitigate the effects of control that smart home providers have over citizens” that allowed government access to its’ data

imagine if bezos could just get a letter from the biden administration saying “this guy is bad, shut down his house and activate his smart locks"

i agree in terms of what we have right now. but without users engaging with the videos on that platform, we'll never see any platform change unless there's spooky investor money thrown into it.

as "power-users" (ew) or tech-literate people, i feel like we should be the ones doing the early adoption.

for anyone who doesn't want to use odysee because there isn't many videos, I recommend the Watch on Odysee extension. when you open a youtube video it'll automatically redirect you to the Odysee upload, if there is one. it's available on Chromium and Firefox.

become the change you want to see :))