Chat Control got forced through the backdoor, btw.
DSL or one of the Puppy flavors.
There's only like, one viable instance though: inv.nadeko.net.
A RISC-V equivalent might be better in terms of hardware openness.
Influencer, because that term has pretty much become synonymous with 'grifter' at this point as most 'influencers' are trying to run a grift of some kind.
Last time I thought Matrix ran on ActivityPub like the rest of the Fediverse, though.
I think that we need more hybrid online/irl communities.
- There's actually been some recent attempts to do exactly that, eg. zine communities have been getting big on ATproto recently, as well as art/craft communities in general.
Google's the main contributor to closing the web off, they even straight-up admitted to that a few months ago and tried to DRM the web with WEI, but that failed with massive backlash.
Boohoo, the open web is broken....
- You caused it, MF'ers....
But yeah, walled gardens like Discord, Google, Meta, and Twitter certainly aren't helping matters, and even some of the alternatives got some controversy of their own, eg. Bsky recently censoring people on their main PDS, although given ATproto is an open protocol, there's no one and nothing stopping you from setting up an account on a third-party PDS like Blacksky or Northsky, or hosting your own, for example.
Apart from that, more open and decentralized/self-hostable alternatives need to crop up and fast, and we already have ATProto, ActivityPub/the Fediverse, PeerSuite, XMPP, and even LBRY/Odysee.
At least Meta straight-up admitted to grifting people, Google has yet to do so.
I laughed way harder than I should've at that.
Age-gated vids have been login-walled for a while now, non-age-gated stuff is still viewable while logged out and through alt front-ends, for now.
I won't put it past Google to fully login-wall YT at some point in the future though, or even worse, put DRM on it so that it's only watchable through Chrome on Android, or Chrome or Edge on Windows, and non-Android and non-Windows OSes, and non-Chrome/Edge browsers are blocked, as well as alt front-ends and downloaders, and even mirroring to competing platforms.
Invidious mainly, and that doesn't use any YT accounts, it's the equivalent of watching YT logged out.
Also, Grayjay lets you log in through it but that probably doesn't bypass the age check if you're KYC'd.
If you're an active creator yourself though or even if you only have a few vids you made years ago that are still up, I'd set up PeerTube, Odysee, or both, and post those there while you still can, though.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.org/post/297727
Pikachu and Buneary are going on an art date at a splatter painting place. They splattered each other a little bit in addition to the giant canvas hanging on the wall.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.org/post/297722
'...Bring puddle-stomping joy.'
The bunnies started showing up during the day again, and I snapped a random pic of one.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.org/post/287847
'A pair of Combee flying in a random field.'
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.org/post/287843
'So I've had this idea for a while, but I wanted to depict Togekiss extending one of her wings out for other Pokemon, in this case, Pichu, Togepi, and Igglybuff, to climb onto her so she could take them on a little trip to a park.'
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.org/post/287834
'Igglybuff playing hopscotch. There's some random chalk art on the sidewalk as well.'
'I also gave her a little crown.'
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.org/post/287831
'Snom is chilling on a snow mound, there's a Pikachu snowman in the background.'
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.org/post/287824
'Happiny is chilling on the back deck, decorating her stone that she keeps in her pouch to look like a mini-me of herself.'
'There's glitter spilled out both on Happiny herself and in front of her although that might not shoe up very well, and I also posed her with her tongue sticking out because I thought it'd be a cute touch.'
'Also, at least this is out back and not indoors or else the Pokemon daycare would have a heck of a time cleaning all that glitter up.'
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.org/post/287820
'Out in the back yard, Oddish is making a leafprint stone, while Pichu is playing hide and seek and Luvdisc is sticking out from the pond and dolng a water squirt.'
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