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YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@empireOfLove2 I don't get it, how can they use the internet without an ad blocker? The first thing that I do is download Firefox + uBlock Origin on any device before of using it.

How's Samsung's One UI these days? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

@Melonpoly You can use ADB for that, there's even a GUI for that called Universal Android Debloater

What are the proposal to make the ActivityPub protocol better? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

@N3M Then, the link option does not sound that bad. My problem is that is not actually something part of the protocol, instead is the client job to render the link as a post. As you say, I don't know how this will break stuff, a decentralized network is harder than a centralized.

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What are the proposal to make the ActivityPub protocol better? (kbin.social)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm a fan of the Fediverse, but what are the major issues we faced right now because of the limitations of the #ActivityPub protocol? Recently, decentralize social networks are at their peak, big players are trying to be part of it, and is constantly in the news.

I have been on the Fediverse for quite a few years, and since alternatives were popping up I tried to learn how they work (it's not like I'm an expert, but I have a general idea), with #BlueSky opening up federation and alternatives like #nostr for what I've read, they are strong in what ActivityPub still lacks.

One thing that comes to my mind right now is how your identity is tied to the instance you are, thus making portability harder. In nostr for example, your identity is not tied to any relay, and Bluesky has domain names as username, which is pretty cool, and for what I read from Bluesky blog, it seems like portability works great since all your posts will still be in your profile. In ActivityPub (or at least in mastodon) moving an account actually means only your followers, and your handle has the instance on it, tying your account to the instance. How could this be handled? I mean, if you are self-hosting your own instance, there is no problem, but the mast majority of people do not host their own instance.

Another thing may be, quote posts. I read from one of the mastodon team they are trying to make it to the protocol instead of the "weird" implementation each software does with the URL at the end, which is a good thing since I feel like every software kind of have their own way of doing things instead of trying to make it to the protocol.

Anyway, want to listen what are your proposal to these problems and what other things you think we could learn from these other protocols. If you spot any mistake, feel free to correct me.

YouTube now suggests new content *by colour* in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@LinkOpensChest_wav I recommend to use De-Arrow is from the same creator of sponsorblock if you want to change the thumbnails and titles, it is crowdsourced.

No channel is monetized if you are using an AdBlock. Hahahaha

YouTube now suggests new content *by colour* in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

@LinkOpensChest_wav That is actually why. I've heard creators talk about how YouTube is rolling this new feature now, it gives you the options to add different thumbnails with different colors to target different audience, and see which one performs the best.

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Make an income out of content creation while retaining your privacy? (kbin.social)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's been a while since I started my privacy journey, but there was something I always wanted to do even before I started to care about my privacy. I always have loved the idea of having a blog to talk about different things that I am interested in, and creating content of value for others, and not gibberish content full of SEO spam, completely generated by AI as these are more frequently seem now, completely making the web worst.

I know the primary source of income on the internet are ads, but now that I am aware about all the tracking that is being made, and all the dark pattern companies make on the internet, has make me second thought the idea of making an income (I know is hard) out of something I would love to do.

Ads on the web are dominated by google, I have been de-googling my life since I started learning about better privacy focused alternatives, and following my thread model, but If I would add ads to my website or a create a youtube channel, I feel everything I have been doing would've been in vane. Currently I block ads because of all the tracking they required, so it feels kind of hypocritical if I started a blog with ads.

Obviously, instead of ads, I could create a support page somewhere, like patreon, ko-fi, and others. But again, I am sure that these platforms in a way or another is doing something I don't feel comfortable with.

Does anyone else feel like because of their care for digital privacy they are missing out and are afraid to do things? I know this is a price you have to pay. Do you have any recommendations or alternatives? or should I still do it, but with more caution? If you make money online with your content, what is you strategy and recommendations to keep your privacy while doing it?

I understand that you cannot obtain absolute privacy, by the way I would not consider myself as paranoiac, and I didn't started by changing everything in one night, it's been two years since I started to care about all of this.

[@fediverse](https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse) Is this a title ? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

@PlasticPigeon I agree with you, and understand what you are trying to say, you are right. The projects could work in a better integration with one another, but this is hard, and not every project is willing to do so, specially when they are different format of content. The #fediverse works thanks to the collaboration, and free work from many volunteers, so is not that easy. Obviously, I would love if mastodon supported long formatted posts from #kbin and #lemmy, and not just a link to the post, better format from groups/communities/magazines, and I would love to see lemmy supporting following users.

And then there are those that defederate from their own kind / federated social network, splintering the Fediverse even further apart.

Because the #fediverse (or the #socialweb as some folks call it) is open, everyone can create a server, block users they don't want to interact with, and block servers they don't want to interact nor have a copy of their content. Each server has their own rules, you can even create your own, but don't be surprised if other servers block your server, you are still free to say what you want there, and they are free to block you.

This is what makes the Fediverse so frustrating.

For me, this is incredible, this comment was send from #kbin replying to another comment made from #lemmy, and said comment is replying to a post send from #mastodon to a lemmy community. This is mind blowing, you can even comment to some websites out there.

I follow: communities from lemmy, magazines from kbin, mastodon users, pixelfed users, flipboard accounts, firefish users, and users from friendica.

Could it be better? Absolutely, we could learn from other alternatives out there, and upgrading the protocol for better features.

Instagram finds that AI Mr beast scams do not go against community guidelines. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

@Zaderade

Tachiyomi War begins in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To my understanding, they are still supporting plugins, it's just they won't provide the list of apps, you should be able to add your own repository of plugins to download, in fact, there are some going around.

Kagi search engine releases a "lens" to search lemmy/kbin instances in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

@eya searxng is great, I use it as my primary search (meta) engine, but if you don't want any connection with brave (which I understand, I don't like them either), searxng itself allows you to pull results off of brave if you enable it. I would not be surprise if kagi does something like this.

Instagram finds that AI Mr beast scams do not go against community guidelines. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

@Zaderade The internet is flooded with AI generated ads, it is crazy, I was using my sister's phone for a moment and inside an app an ad pops up, it was a obviously AI generated image of a singer with the lyrics of the song, nothing compared to a scam, but still. Another example is my mother, she was using youtube shorts and her feed was flooded with AI generated videos, the "person", voice, background, everything.

Then they ask why people are using ad blocking and alternative clients to consume content.

P.S: I have installed alternative clients, adblocks and all to their phones, I have told them and teach them how to avoid all of this crap, they don't see to care, they love ads and all this crap. (It's more of an habit thing I would say, but yeah)

Is the Piped Link Bot down? No activity in the last two weeks. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

@Rodeo I've been using #piped as my alternative front-end to #youtube for like a year, and it's working fine. I don't use the official instance though; however, I did notice that the API was down for a couple of days (at least the subscription feed).

You can choose one from their instance list. Obviously, you are putting your trust to the instance owner.

Dropbox is sharing users' files with OpenAI, here's how to opt out in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm totally in favor with your post, but not everyone is willing to self-host or is capable of doing it. So I recommendation would be and one that I'm currently using, is when uploading a file to these cloud services encrypt your files. I'm using #cryptomator, but I'm sure there are other alternatives, like #rclone. There is also #veracrypt, but to my understanding, is not great for cloud sync.

Cryptomator official website
Quick youtube video in how to use cryptomator (3:51)

Cryptomator is open source and free, but only on desktop. To use the mobile version, you will have to pay. Here is a list of alternatives to cryptomator, if you are familiar with one, please share your knowledge.

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Why are peertube channels federated like a magazine or a community on lemmy? (kbin.social)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been using #Kbin for a while since reddit exodus, but it wasn't until like a week ago that I decided to create an account. It's been great, it is the best way for me to experience the #fediverse, I used mastodon and firefish before, but I think I like more the community format, and not losing the possibility to follow accounts and see their posts it's just awesome, one of the reasons why I chose it over #Lemmy.

Another project I'm really invested is #peertube, I tried to follow a channel and it shows on kbin with the magazine format and on lemmy like a community. Why is that? Wouldn't make more sense to be a profile? While being a magazine/community, everyone is able to post there. (At least to my understanding)

I was looking at @dot_social and in Kbin, it does not show any content, nor does @thelinuxexperiment_channel, while on lemmy @thelinuxexperiment_channel does show the description of the video, but @dot_social doesn't but it shows a post made from mastodon by one of the members of flipboard.

Is this something intended to be like this? I don't really understand the #ActivityPub at a low level, recently I was told it has two formats notes and pages, does it have to do with this?