@joepie91
Corelle taught me that "unbreakable" means "may fail catastrophically at some point in the future".
Vacancy alert!!
We are looking for a volunteer to help out as Coordinator Parking.
You will have the support of someone who is VERY experienced and needs help with that!
You can the info here: https://wiki.why2025.org/Team:Parking
This and other cool vacancies here:
https://wiki.why2025.org/Vacancies
@noracodes It's always really telling how these kinds of people talk about the innovation prevented by interoperability overhead, but not about the innovation prevented by having a 'clear leader' that needs to sign off on everything
If you have a YouTube channel, this is your signal to setup a @peertube instance, the free and open source YouTube alternative that's fediverse enabled.
"But how do I monetize things to pay for my bills? Servers aren't free you know"
Great question! It's true that PeerTube doesn't have a monetization system built in. But bills aren't actually that high. To give an example: I've been running an instance on a server with 700 GB of SSD storage for less than €20 a month. It hosts almost 900 videos of various length, mostly on the longer side (between 30 and 60 minutes) and it holds about 265 GB of the server space currently. So, that's 15 years of video archive using around 1/3 of the storage.
The best ways to monetize have always been to build a community of loyal watchers. Let them support you on Patreon (or consider some open source alternatives like Liberapay, Open Collective, Coindrop, Maecen, or Be-BOP).
"But how can people find my content?"
The creators of PeerTube also developed a great search engine, called Sepia Search. Also, your content can be federated by other PeerTube instances.
"Ok, I setup an instance. But how do I migrate my content off YouTube?"
You can actually setup a sync in the settings on PeerTube, that automatically pulls in your videos. No effort!
Become part of the solution, migrate away from corporate platforms. If all YouTube content creators did this, we'd actually have a better internet.
https://www.usermag.co/p/youtube-removes-gender-identity-from
"Before 1914, the earth had belonged to all. People went where they wished and stayed as long as they pleased. There were no permits, no visas, and it always gives me pleasure to astonish the young by telling them that before 1914, I travelled from Europe to India and America without a passport and without ever having seen one."
-Stefan Zweig
Borders as we know them are a recent concoction.
The passport system as we know it dates to the First World War. ICE was founded in 2003 as part of the so-called "War on Terror," a disaster for freedom in every way.
These institutions are neither timeless nor beneficial nor inevitable.
Under the motto “Utopia Test Environment”, we invite you to develop new ideas, discuss them together and design a just, diverse and non-discriminatory analogue and digital future.
More details and the submit form:
https://pretalx.c3voc.de/chaos-feminist-convention-2025/cfp
CW-boost: uspol, actionable
Spam away! https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/114289133615822854
Doesn't seem to be geolocked either.
strongly worded sentiment
Also, fuck "#AI" and chatbot pushers.
If it's that great then why do you have to force it on people against their will?
Right. It's great, but for a limited class of exploiters.
Today I learned that the TLD for Yugoslavia (.yu) was *physically stolen* after its constituent states declared independence: https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-9/yugolsav-wars-yu-domain-history-icann
At #2dance yesterday, we were already over time with the final set and the VJ started playing OpenRCT2
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.