I have been using Brave browser with the crypto stuff disabled.

The mere fact that you have to "disable the crypto stuff" tells me all I nee to know about Brave Browser, and it's enough to ensure I'll never install it.

I give ~$15/month total to a couple of creators I really enjoy. They put a lot of hard work into their videos for a relatively niche subject, and it's not much to me. It helps them a little so I don't mind doing it.

I just got a threat from them on one of the subs I moderate that is private and has been for years. It included this gem:

If this community remains private, we will reach out soon with information on what next steps will take place.

We already know what their "next steps" are. It will be interesting to see if they ban my account as well. I've already nuked all of my comments and posts. Fuck them.

90-plus percent of Reddit users are on our platform, contributing, and are monetized either through ads or Reddit Premium

I wonder how many of those reddit premium members have cancelled their subscriptions. I know I did. I had premium for years as it seemed like a good way to give a little bit back to a site I was using multiple times a day, every day. As soon as Spez started his bullshit I cancelled it and won't be back.

I disagree, once your open source project “sprouts wings” you enter an unspoken power battle

You've seen Hackers one too many times. Again you can run your instance however you want, and can defederate from instances that don't implement things they way you are demanding they should, but you do not dictate how others (or the developers) run things.

The beauty of open source is you can always fork your own. The beauty of federation is you can block whoever you want or whatever instance you want.

Other than that, you have no right to demand anything of anyone.

Well well well, what a nice vacuum cleaner!

There is nothing wrong with forums, they've existed (and continue to exist) for decades. They are a great way to have information easily searchable, as well as easily post and contribute.

Just because they aren't carded like twitter or lemmy doesn't mean they are dated. Everything has it's place and every tool has a job. In this case, that place is a forum and the tool is phBB. Also, I wouldn't call it "old school" as the most recent update is from May 21, 2023.

Not everything has to be federated, and nothing is stopping anyone from creating an instance for Jellyfin ( [email protected] ) . But for the official instance, having it hosted by them, on their hardware, that they control, it's a great choice to use a forum.

Just remember, the S in IOT stands for security.

I do have some IOT devices on my network, however they are kept off the internet and on their own vlan. No phoning home (or anywhere else) for these devices.

They can be great if they are set up properly, but too many people just take them out of the box, toss them on their network and think they are just fine.

There are so many times I look for something somewhat niche that I need information on, and the first 10 or so links are all garabage keyword spammed sites. Literally lists of words that drive clicks to their site (I assume for ads or scripts). It's super frustrating. I've blocked entire TLDs on my network (.zip for example) and installed a add-on to allow me to block results in my searches.

Because video is so cheap to host... That'll definitely help them bleeding money (and users)

I self hosted precisely so I can federate with who I want to. It's nice to be able to see posts from multiple instances of (for example) self-hosted on different servers within my own instance, and comment on them directly within my own instance.

The only issues I've had is the comments can take a bit to federate across, but that's to be expected.

More like Spez hopes this will all pass. Sadly I think he's probably right as the majority of users will just go back. There is already a turning on some mods that have gone dark, with people saying they are the issue, not Spez.