Some weird, German communist, hello. Obsessed with philosophy (German Idealism and its subsequent evolutions) and history (mainly everything since the French Revolution), as well as the Fediverse. Secondarily obsessed with video games as a cultural medium. Also somewhat able to program, but not that good.

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  • In theory, yes. Several of the channels that publish on PeerTube and YouTube have referral links, sponsored segments and the likes - The Linux Experiment and Gardyner Bryant are two big ones off the top of my head, as you also pointed out. There’s a support button integrated to link to Patroen/Liberapay/Ko-Fi and the likes, and during their AMA over at !opensource@lemmy.ml three months back, they mentioned having better Patreon integration on their radar at least, although not a huge priority at this point.

    In practice - it comes down to the chicken and egg problem again, as well as currently a lack of discoverability. One reason creators put up with the BS on YouTube is that, even when ad monetization is basically nothing worthwhile at all for the vast majority, and the algorithm also forces them to hamstring their creative process at times, it is the one place where people are most likely to discover your videos, thanks to the algorithm being trained to keep the audience engaged in addictive binge-watching, and the way it - to its credit - can also sometimes push small, still unknown creatives into people’s feeds if the audience could be interested in the topics/video style.

    Now, an addictive, obscured algorithm like that would rightfully be anathema to the principles behind PeerTube, but there have been some attempts to create better discoverability. This Firefox add-on is super basic, and it doesn’t seem to work without hiccups - but it did help me discover some stuff at least. Communities like this one here help with word-of-mouth discovery. And some creatives that are focused on the Fediverse leverage Mastodon integration to engage with their existing community there, and have those users as their main audience, which can quite seemlessly interact with videos through mastodon.

    So, in theory, there is nothing that would prevent living on PeerTube alone, ad revenue from video ads is not nothing, but for many, it is not the main source of income, sometimes basically just pennies. Referral links and sponsored segments work just the same as on YT, basically. In practice, the community is still too small, so most creatives will opt for publishing on PT and YT simultaneously, if at all - very understandably so, with varying levels of taking PeerTube seriously and putting some effort (like engaging with comments on there, or checking if your YT-imports actually succeed and such). Increasing that number could help with growing an engaged community on PT, which would then increase the attractiveness of it - potentially to the point where one day, it could become more feasible (alongside other potential developments, like better integration of PT with platforms like Patreon/Liberapay/Ko-Fi).





  • I haven’t used Bazaar myself, but in general, frontends like this usually just do that behind the scenes. If you are comfortable/used to using another frontend/method, you probably won’t need it. It’s all about the GUI, comfort and also usually the selection of featured apps (although that could be distro-dependently handled, too). The one thing here I personally agree with being great which I personally haven’t seen like this (I’m used to Pamac, myself), is having fundraising/donation info right in the GUI for the projects.









  • I mean - kind of? I do agree a lot of “reaction” content is bottom-of-the barrel shit, but it’s not like this one is just making funny faces and going “woaaah, nonono, they didn’t!!” or something. He does use the video as a jumping off point for his own commentary, providing his own perspectives (those segments are also edited with cuts, showing this wasn’t just turning their webcam on and rambling without any evaluation later). Just roughly looking through the preview thumbnails hovering over the video progress bar, easily more than 50% is talking about topics in the reacted video without even the reacted-to footage on screen.













  • Hab das mal sehr grob überflogen, die interessanten/relevanten Anteile beginnen ab Seite 35. In der Tat ein eher oberflächliches Verständnis von Marx u. Engels in der Begründung, wie im Artikel erwähnt wurden anscheinend “www.staatslexikon-online” [sic] und das Kommunistische Manifest herangezogen, um das relevante - die grundlegende Unvereinbarkeit von Marx und GG - zu begründen.

    Andere Sachen beim Überfliegen, wie in wie Weit sich nicht ausreichend von alten Publikationen distanziert wurde, kann ich nicht beurteilen.

    Aber das Verständnis von Marx und Engels Werken, wie hier formuliert, ist meines Erachtens tatsächlich so oberflächlich, dass es an sich nicht zu einer blanko-Einstufung der Verfassunsfeindlichkeit taugen sollte. Gerade der späte Marx und Engels haben da durchaus differenziertere Beiträge geleistet. Es wirkt auf mich so, wie die Denker und Prinzipien der Französischen Revolution als grundlegend und gänzlich unvereinbar einzustufen, mit Bezug auf einzelne von Aussagen von Robespierre und die Terrorherrschaft während der Revolution.














  • I may be misremembering, so take this as potential bullshit, but I seem to recall there was a study (or just a survey?) that seemed to indicate, that onlineness for men generally correlated with less mysogyny than the overall population - with the exception of those explicitly in the “manosphere” bubble, who then spike on the far end of the spectrum.

    Thinking back of how I remember groups of boys and men (which I was a part of) talking with each other offline before widespread internet access (or even now), that kind of made sense to me. I remember being often rather alone with my opinions and being told stuff like: “Just accept that sexism is funny.” Especially thinking back to pre-internet teenage me, I had a lot of weird assumptions internalized that online exchanges, seeing actual, unfiltered opinions of women mostly, helped correct.