@Buggy I cancelled my whole Prime subscription over this choice they made. It’s sad that Ars says there has been little pushback, but Amazon has convinced me that I don’t need what they are selling.
always as I think I book Amazon or Netflix for a month just to enjoy a show I haven't found otherwise yet they pull idiotic shipwreckage like that. Not gonna lie, thanks for saving me more money Amazon.
My adblocker seems to be still removing them for now, so the result for me has just been watching more often on desktop instead of mobile. Also it turns out downloading offline and then watching in airplane mode works on mobile 🤷♂️
Epic Games launched Unreal Engine 5.5 with MegaLights tech, improved Nanite, and Path Tracer. Royalties on Epic Games Store drop to 3.5% for earnings over $1M in 2025. 'A unified Fab Publishing Portal' for Unreal Engine Marketplace, Sketchfab Store, ArtStation Marketplace, and Quixel has also been announced alternativeto.net/news/2024/10…
JD Vance says he was "annoyed" by Tim Walz citing economists saying Trump's policies will lead to a rise in inflation, because "I don't think economists know what the hell they're talking about"
Walz in Pennsylvania on last night's debate: "You can't rewrite history. And trying to mislead us about Donald Trump's record -- that's gaslighting ... they tried to tell us last night Donald Trump tried to save Obamacare. Are you kidding me?"
Listen, I'm all for open sourcing stuff and I'm all for the fediverse and all. I just don't understand why one would want a fediverse tiktok.
Short form content is addictive af and doesn't add anything of substance to society.
Video hosting is expensive. Peertube is already struggling. How do you expect to financially sustain video hosting that is addictive to the user (which means more consumption) without running ads? Paywalling it won't be an option due to the network effect as well.
I have hundreds of short form videos which are designed to uplift, encourage, and speak positively about mental health issues. I’ve had lots of people tell me that my videos in some small way encourage them to take the next step in their mental health.
In other words, it’s not the form of the video that matters, it’s the content.
As for the cost of the server, I think the videos will expire after a certain amount of time. Something like Snapchat.
The great thing about the Fediverse is that it offers options. Is this going to be exactly like TikTok? Of course not. Will it serve a purpose for some? Time will tell.
I don't know what to make of this. Regular tiktok just is sooooo offputting to me. The 50x overlays. The voiceovers which are the basis of the content, with the video that has NOTHING to do with the content. The chinese spying. It's all just very bad.
But then I remember a federated version would be.......different. I can't imagine it would be like tiktok with text overlays. I can't imagine the content would be similar either. It'll be like "here's the better way to sudo your linux....."
Which, as someone who doesn't care about linux, I'd find it less offensive, but still wouldn't care about it.
It's a bit hard to imagine the fediverse crowd being huge on a tiktok-like platform. I think it's an important development, even just as a proof of concept, but it would have to attract an audience from a whole different target audience, and one that might have less patience for technical hiccups.
I think video content is also fundamentally more asymmetrical - from a few influencers to a large number of consumers. Which is probably what the fediverse is heading towards as well, but it's not what it does best at the moment.
I don't think I'm the target audience of this, and I'm not sure it'll be a success. But I think it's a very interesting and important development anyway.
Well peertube is struggling already so thats a valid question. Idk if they using peertube style bitorrent video delivery that might help offload the cost a little.
I'm very intrigued, Dan Sup is one of the most interesting people working in the fediverse these days, and I'm very curious about anything he puts forward.
IMO a very small amount of storage should be free but after that the user needs to pay. It's the right thing to do for hosts and for the environment. If content creators need massive amounts of video then that will incentivize them to make money on it.
The only people left out are small, niche channels that have quality or important content but don't make much money. Maybe they could be cut special deals by the hosts / donors.
Big creators make a ton of money from their videos. I'm fine with the Fediverse adding ads, or creators doing sponsorships. We need a separation of concerns. Fediverse is removing centralized corporate control.
We need a way to get good content creators money on the Fediverse.
It's kinda the entire point for a lot of the users and uploaders, that and getting paid to continue the cycle of creating more content.
If you're expecting us, as-in, the federated populace on Lemmy and Mastodon to use it, I dunno, man. Sharing personal content is a very rare use case here. We usually stick to news and memes.
Then again, communities that are rather reliant on a performance like fishing, sports, guitar, drums, and skill toys like yoyos might get a use out of having a safe public place to upload themselves without outside influence.
A lot of content on Tiktok is about presenting content rather the person. It can be similar to Youtube, but more accessible for beginners content creators now that a lot of Youtubers have a professional setup, and barrier to entry is much higher.
I mean I know it was a hyperbole. There are negative comments in the thread, though. They mostly don't like it for it's short video form and algorithm I think.
WIP Wednesday 2 October 2024 This week in FreeCAD development:
Part and PartDesign:
AIRCAP fixed another Loft issue and then a blocker where Pocket’s up-to-face option would work differently (and incorrectly at that) from v0.21.2.
mwganson fixed a bug where you wouldn’t be able to run CheckGeometry on an X-axis object when the “Too small edge” option is enabled, after expanding origin object blog.freecad.org/2024/10/02/wi… #DevelopmentUpdates
@Bernard @EvolLove I think we're wayyy past that. Have you forgotten these criminals coerced the population with injecting a bioweapon? These people will not stop until they are stopped.
Forget Nemo, this is The Carrot! 🐟🤯 Hackett, 42, recently landed a #goldfish so enormous it's being called a "monster" by onlookers. This aquatic behemoth, nicknamed "The Carrot" for its vibrant orange color, was caught at Bluewater Lakes in France's Champagne region. According to the fishery's Facebook page, the 20-year-old female, actually a type of carp called a #koi, weighed a whopping 67.4 pounds. The Carrot is believed to be the second-biggest #fish ever caught 📸: Bluewater Lakes #fishing
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Personally I already *stopped* tolerating them. I ditched prime when the previous change came into force.
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