There are PeerTube servers that allow a certain reasonable amount of content for free.

PeerTube is also a Fediverse service, and does the longer form videos, like YouTube. It mostly works fine; it just lacks content.

So, you’re being negative about an alpha release of someone’s hard work without checking it out first?

Sad to hear this news.

You’re not wrong!

My point was, I think they would both be pommes frites.

How to the French tell the difference between fried apples and fried potatoes?

Maybe context.

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Proton has labels & folders both.

They are in competition with Mastodon, and have a marketing budget.

Five years from now, those platforms will become enshittified as their budgets dry up. They will need to milk the users for revenue. Well see another surge in a few years, until they learn that Mastodon is actually better.

And then #2 will be copied by other people and AIs, becoming seen as fact.

And then #2 will be copied by other people and AIs, becoming seen as fact.

Russian cunts

Kinda repeating yourself here.

Brave’s CEO is so anti-gay, he dished out 4-figure checks to fight gayness.

I’m not a fan of that, and Brave has issues with being Chromium-based, like Vivaldi.

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Bluesky seems to work better as an alternative.

Until they run out of VC money.

Then the enshittification happens, to pay the bills.

Super sketchy Russian software.

Better system for WHOM? Tech-bros that want to steal my content as their own?

I’m a writer, performing artist, designer, and illustrator. I have thought about copyright quite a bit. I have released some of my stuff into the public domain, as well as the Creative Commons. If you want to use my work, you may - according to the licenses that I provide.

I also think copyright law is way out of whack. It should go back to - at most - life of author. This “life of author plus 95 years” is ridiculous. I lament that so much great work is being lost or forgotten because of the oppressive copyright laws - especially in the area of computer software.

But tech-bros that want my work to train their LLMs - they can fuck right off. There are legal thresholds that constitute “fair use” - Is it used for an academic purpose? Is it used for a non-profit use? Is the portion that is being used a small part or the whole thing? LLM software fail all of these tests.

They can slurp up the entirety of Wikipedia, and they do. But they are not satisfied with the free stuff. But they want my artistic creations, too, without asking. And they want to sell something based on my work, making money off of my work, without asking.

You sound like someone who has not tried to make an artistic creation for profit.

The things is, they can have scads of free stuff that is not copyrighted. But they are greedy and want copyrighted stuff, too