Arguably the world's most popular private search engine, DuckDuckGo, has long been a haven for those who do not want to participate in Google's censorship, manipulation, and tracking. In 2008, Gabriel
Youtube is currently the dominant video platform. However, there are several alternatives on the rise that are trying to compete against them. I will be talk...
Pleeease don't reccomend Odyssey. It's a horrible platform run by horrible people who have said and done disgusting things, and they're still anti-open source and for-profit.
I know it's not "an alternative", but I recently discovered invidious and it's awesome.
it's a self hostable YouTube frontend, (with loads of public instances). it cuts out the ads, and dials down the noisy UI. Additional features like downloading videos. it's pretty great!
- Crypto scam: just look at the price charts of $LBRY - Rest of the shit:
A lot of the screenshots are hard to find and come from deleted tweets, this is what I can find for now but I know for a fact there's more screenshots out there, I'll update you if I find any more of em
- Attached to a crypto scam - Fucking publicly sexually harassed women multiple times on Twitter - Publicly made a n-word joke on Twitter - Allow and encourage far-right/alt-right/bigoted content - Founder has said the n-word on personal accounts on multiple occasions
All that is true and we are right to criticize them for it. But at what point should we stop support all together?
Youtube currently allows for many conservatives on their platform who are transphobic, sexist etc. But would that be enough to stop watching youtube all together?
By saying Odysee is a viable youtube alt, I am not endorsing their questionable behavior. I try to criticize both youtube and Odysee
also given they were more involved in some of the drama back in December, perhaps @Linux4Everyone@fosstodon.org could help expand on this (if they so choose)
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I've been away a while; managed to fall on a five foot staircase and fracture my 8th vertebrae just before Christmas. I'm essentially ok, though still healing.
In the meantime, I know you're all dying to know what I think about the news and it's pretty much this:
First frame out of 4, from the second part of my space personnal project, this time focused on a single seat exploration ship. Serie is called Pioneers.
Congrats idiots, by sanctioning Russia you're causing the unification between Russia and China. How long after the new silk road initiative is completed will US currency no longer be accepted? Russia has gold and minerals, China is the most advanced manufactuing state on the planet! #rusdia #ukraine #china #usdollar
In extention this will lead to a weaker Russia. The trading options for Russia will be limited and China can push the prices down. The actual effect is too difficult to predict since it involves many players, but don't expect that China wants to compete with another super power. They will invest as much as they are comfortable with.
Maybe in the short term, but this may be the push that replaces the US dollar as the reserve currency. When China finishes the silk road and it solidifies it's ties with Africa and the eastern part of Europe. It will then allow them to distribute their products and Russian energy cheaply. This in turn will make it easy for them to demand payment in Chinese Yuan, not US dollars. Anyone that wants/needs Chinese products (the whole world) will be forced to exchange in that standard. Just a though exercise ...
Russia will then be able to trade with partners outside of China using the Yuan as their reserve. BRICS has been built up since 2012 for the express purpose of getting outside the US monopoly of the world financial system. How hard is it to imagine all the "enemies" of the empire getting onboard and fast. Venezuela, Iran, North Korea the list gets longer as time goes on.
99% percent of Russians have nothing to do with the "Regime", curious choice of word ... just like 99% of Americans don't have connections to the war machine
With the conflict in Ukraine and the massive information war that NATO countries are contributing to, it's time for people to watch this documentary by Noam Chomsky.
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