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Everyone going mad and many suggesting “if you have it use Safari instead!” when Apple implemented essentially this same thing quite some time ago in Safari 🤔

That said intentions are important. I have little faith that Big G’s goal is anything other than self servin.

While I don’t disagree, YouTube won’t care. Currently folk like you and I who evade their ads are freeloading. We get all the content and YouTube gets nothing in return. Having those who block ads abandon watching doesn’t lose YouTube anything, and maybe saves them a little bandwidth bill I guess?

I think it also fundamentally changes the conversation. Valid but "unpopular" comments can't get buried in downvotes. The voting system on Reddit was based on a sane logic that totally neglected to consider how people actually behave.. the idea of up and down votes to crowd-source relevance and quality of content makes sense, but all anyone did was use it as an agree / disagree button which broke the idea entirely.

I want I like Kbin, and in time I think I will, but the UX is a little too unfinished right now. I'll keep checking in on it and I'm excited to see two things that conceivably offer a similar experience to Reddit gaining traction. Big-up the fediverse!

Depends on how we define an identity.. the dataset doesn’t move (would be a great feature if that gets added similar to Mastodon and others, but we have to appreciate Lemmy is young and developed entirely by volunteers) but “you” do.

Regardless it’s still a significant conceptual improvement over Reddit where you’re either there on the centralised service or you’re not there at all.

I think you’ve some valuable insights though, and would genuinely encourage you to get involved in their GitHub. If you can code, and have time to offer, you can even start to build the functionality. If not you can raise the question or check for it already being and add your comments to it to make the use-case :)

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

If A goes down or if I lose interest in it, I’ll need to re-establish somewhere else and resubscribe everything

Correct, as of now, but the point is that you can resub elsewhere. This is entirely impossible on centralised private platforms like Reddit.

It’s something of a manual process for Lemmy right now, you’d need to set up on another server and manually add your communities but the point is you can still “move home” and still interact with the same communities and people. If you don’t like having your stuff on Reddit, on the other hand, your options are put up with it or no longer be able to be part of that community.

So if you join a fediverse server of any flavour and the admins reveal themselves to have view incompatible with your own, or the server goes to shit, or it just has to shut down due to lack of funds or whatever you don’t get locked out of the places you have been hanging out in.

Your ID doesn’t need to be tied to any given server. You can move around and change your “home” server at will. Or if preferred you could stand up your own server for your usage, hold your identify on there, and still engage with the rest of Lemmy / fediverse.

It’s less a design mistake and more a technical constraint. A users identify exists as, at a minimum, a database entry. That database needs to live somewhere that the various fediverse servers can talk to. But you have complete freedom in where that database entry is, and can change your mind later.

So it already doesn’t matter if you’re on beehaw, lemmy or some random mastodon or kbin server - they all federate with each other (to varying degrees but that’s a slightly different conversation)

I’m pretty uneasy about the association, but the attitude of Beehaw is the antithesis of it so I guess it balances out..?

I did play with Kbin first but the interface felt kinda broken to me, buttons not reacting and the like..

We had a Google speaker thing. Got rid of it because it was crap. All we could reliably use it for was asking it to play a radio station or play Spotify, but frankly it even got that wrong enough that grabbing my phone and connecting to the Bluetooth speaker was easier.

Even privacy invading problems aside they’re just a little bit rubbish.

I can get behind that!

I did a nice easy install of Jellyfin via flatpak and I’ll say I’m impressed. Feels a lot quicker than plex too.