Looking forward to checking it out, I mostly use the windows desktops client, but updates on all platforms are great!

Ugh…

I find generic phrases such as “tolerance is at the base of civil life” to be unconvincing, especially when parroted in such an aggressively self-aggrandizing manner. You might as well say something along the line of “An apple a day keeps the doctor way”.

You either don’t have much life experience (and lack intellectual curiosity) or you’re just grandstanding online.

It’s great, a lot better than Lemmy.

The main weakness IMO is that Voyager doesn’t support most of the cool features of Piefed (core interaction works great though). I have yet to try Interstellar. The mobile WebUI is pretty good, albeit in need of some polish and optimisations.

This is some of the most pretentious, ostentatious posturing I’ve read on this topic.

You really think people can’t see through this?

You don’t see the irony in doing the “sophomoric debate club” thing while calling those that disagree with you “Kids”.

“Dangerous trends”, “base of intolerance” or the pompous drivel about “grow my ideas and enforce and dispute them” are almost comical in their tone.

The world doesn’t work that way. This is a motherfucking internet forum.

Or is this a satire of American style polemics and I got played? 🤣

If it’s satire, then good job!

There is Piefed, it’s compatible with Lemmy instances and has a whole load of useful feature for both users and moderators.

Much quicker and responsive development (I’ve been able to get two small feature/improvement requests implemented within weeks of my initial issue post).

One of the Lemmy developers is also an admin on the notorious Lemmygrad instance.

I have mixed views on this.

On one hand I agree with you, especially when it comes to dealing with Palantir or really any company that can be influenced by the US, but on the other hand there are legitimate uses for such technologies in the sphere of national security and even public security.

I would argue it’s the citizens’ responsibility to make sure that the usage of such technologies is done in a framework of checks and balances (i.e. in a responsible manner).

I don’t believe in rhetoric about “the state infinitely expands surveillance capabilities”. The state is a reflection of the voters and there is no laws of physics or chemistry that guarantees such expansion via Brownian motion or what have you. If you do have institutions going overboard (be it the state or corporations), the root cause are the citizens (examples like NK or Eritrea notwithstanding).

Incredible that they’re still contracting an American company (one that is known to be controlled by particularly corrupt oligarchs) instead of building out their own capabilities.

The question is how soon.

The bubble can go on for a long time with circular financing schemes and it has full backing of the US gov.

It’s worth pointing out that lack of RIO has been a thing for a while now.

The best you can do is help them install uBlock Origin and FB/Insta Lite (not great options, but better than the mainline apps).

HBO Max isn’t really a thing in my country. Although I was surprised to find out that they do allow you to sign up; Shudder which I would be willing to pay money for gives me a page with following text:

Sorry, we are not available in your country

That’s the whole page. Well, I will continue to use alternative sources for procuring your 1st party content if you don’t want to take my money.

From what I remember, downloading, installing and logging in worked, but we couldn’t play any videos. Logging in worked on the WebUI too. That’s why initially thought this was some sort of technical issue specific to my setup or perhaps even a bunk unit (even though it could play multiple containers/codecs from the NAS).

I was honestly shocked to discover that Netflix requires per device licensing. I can sort of understanding quality restrictions on some devices, even though the DRM is broken albeit the crack is not fully public (you can easily find even 4K WEB-DL copies on the internet), but per device licensing for playback is ridiculous. They don’t even allow WebUI usage!

Who do they think they are? This is clearly an example of oligopoly corruption, on par with the russian oligarchy that de facto operates in the technology services sphere with state management (even though from my experience, the US commoner would strongly disagree with such a characterization).

Check out the linked thread asking for Reddit alternatives.

I am talking about the population of people interested in alternative platforms, so maybe like 1-2% of the Reddit’s MAUs at most. I was pretty clear about this:

…among users who are looking for alternatives to American oligarchic technology services

…

…is a massive turn off for the exact target market of the Fediverse

The market for Fedi is clearly not the total unique MAU count of American social services.

I feel like I should make a joke about not reading an article and just commenting about the headline. :)

I’ve seen that being used. It works fine for more technical users, but it’s just an extra pain point.

• If you make links, you need to apply the service
• Different UI from whatever instance/client/platform that you are using.

I much prefer Piefed’s soon to be released link substitution feature.

For DV it’s understandable. IMO Dolby and DTS are kinda of a scam (e.g. their lossless codecs). They are welcome to make authoring tools, but the standards should always be open and not subject to unaccountable entities that operate in a unreliable jurisdiction.

The reason I am asking about Netflix is because we got a relatively powerful Chinese Android set-top box (that is supported by a local distributor) and it couldn’t play videos in the Netflix Android app or even when logging in via web browser. The distributor said that Netflix support requires a license. After doing some research, this seems to be true for many non-American brands.

We cancelled Netflix and we are not buying any new subscriptions from American firms. I am just curious about the whole license issue.

ugoos am6b+ works great and can playback basically anything but av1 natively if you flash Coreelec, the android side can still run streaming apps if you insist or iptv apps like tv mate since iptv support in kodi/jellyfin suuuucks

Not Netflix though, right?

We cancelled our Netflix subscription earlier this year, but I am just curious. To my understanding to install Netflix you have to use trash tier HTPC devices.

So you’d have to either raise prices or accept a lower profit margin.

Isn’t that the point and the main benefit of competitive markets?

Agreed, regarding barriers to entry though. They need to be addressed.

How do you discover good peertube channels?

I only have two subscriptions, a gaming channel that uploads to both peertube and YT and the Piefed channel.

I believe I2P is more for things like torrents.

I’ve been meaning to test it out (I seem to remember that it’s possible to run it side by side), but haven’t got a chance yet.

While it was previously reported that Samsung was only looking to manufacture ~20,000 to ~30,000 TriFold units, its quick sellout could be seen as a positive.

Is this 20-30K for the initial batch or lifetime? That’s a critical point.