Admin of lemmy.blahaj.zone
I can also be found on the microblog fediverse at @[email protected] or on matrix at @ada:chat.blahaj.zone
You create the community on another instance. You update the lemm.ee version with a sticky post and sidebar edit to let people know the new location. Do that before lemm.ee closes down, and even people that find the lemm.ee version of the group after the instance is gone will still be able to find your new location
Well, the managed communities will pin posts and update their descriptions before the shut down happens, and those details will federate to every instance with users that subscribe to the communities.
Most people don’t start making videos to make money. In the early Tube days there was no money.
Absolutely. I’m one of them. But there’s a lot of peertube instances that serve that need.
The OP was talking about creating a moderated instance, with high production quality requirements for members, with the possibility of charging for extra upload capacity etc. And that narrows the field down to people who either make their living from producing video content, or want to make their living from producing video content. That’s the group I was talking about
PeerTube only has 1 less avenue for monetization than YT, among dozens.
Absolutely, but the one its missing is a major source of income for most professionals and semi professionals who make their living from video content. And folk who rely on YouTube advertising aren’t just going to be able to drop YouTube for Peertube whilst keeping a consistent income stream. Which means the OP (and the OP specifically, not peertube in general) will need to make space for allowing those users to exist in a way that encourages them to move to Peertube, without cutting off the income they currently make from centralised corporate platforms.
My partner and I run a peertube instance out of our own pockets, and we make videos and host other folk making videos, without caring about their quality or experience. For us, it’s about giving folk voices. But I wasn’t talking about peertube in general, or folk like myself, I was addressing the OPs situation
At the moment, its challenging for creators to generate income from Peertube. In theory, the avenue they have is through patreons and the like, but in practice, peertube doesn’t yet have the volume of users to make that work. And as a result, it’s going to be hard to use any kind of “premium/paid” tier service, simply because there won’t be many takers.
In my mind, right now, if you’re trying to attract creators, you’re going to need to reduce as many barriers as you can for them to move over. That may mean co-existing accounts on bigtech platforms and on peertube, and in terms of helping with your running costs, voluntary donations are the best way of doing it for now, until peertube gets a larger volume of users.
Either way, we spun up our own peertube instance a few weeks ago too, so welcome to the vidiverse :)
The best help you can give someone in distress is hearing them, whilst you redirect them to a place that can help with empathy and compassion.
Any form of automated message comes across as the exact opposite of empathy and compassion.
In addition, speaking as the admin of a trans and queer community, I don’t have any special tools or abilities to help people. Sending the report to me doesn’t let me help them, because they’re almost certainly not in my country, and I don’t have any special access that enables me to contact them or reach out to them. The tool I do have, is the instance itself that we host, that allows people to connect with their community and their peers, that allows them to struggle, and that shuts down anyone who would try and add to the hurt of someone on the edge.
Which is to say, I don’t think a reddit style feature has a place here. It will let people think they’re helping, without actually doing so, as well as providing a new vector for abuse (though that would be less of an issue than on reddit). In theory, an automated list of resources that could be called on could be useful, but again, if someone is struggling, they need to feel heard, and automated replies can come across as dispassionate and uncaring.
My RC hovercraft! I loved that thing, but it had such a short battery life, it was basically unusable
Unless you want to talk about transphobia, racism, LGBTQ rights etc, etc, in which case, you live on the edge constantly wondering when YT is going to demonetize you
Peertube and pixelfed have that built in to the individual instances. It is something I’d like to see more widespread
Most platforms have their “join lemmy” or “join Mastodon” equivalents already
Gateways that ease the pain of entrance to the fediverse are a good thing. A single, centralised gateway that defacto controls all access to the fediverse is exactly what I’m trying to get away from
From my perspective, that’s not something I’d use, or at least, it wouldn’t have been much use to me when I was a young closeted queer person in small town Australia. It wouln’t have been much help finding my peers
The hot water tap in my shower turned itself completely off one day.
The whole gender thing? And I say that as a trans person. It’s real, but I can’t explain it…
That feels off somehow, or at least, the unsolved problem part isn’t as narrow as that makes it seem.
I can recognise a place, just like a face. I don’t eliminate options, I just recognise it. I can recognise voices the same way.
I don’t understand how faces are different in this context?
Friendica, and to a lesser extent, misskey and it’s forks
Faux outrage isn’t playing around though. They’re not doing it for fun, they’re doing it for social capital.
Open world games don’t hold me, because ironically, they tend to feel too small. When you can walk from one side of the setting to the other in real time, it all feels small.
As an instance admin, if I regularly see reports for a local community that break community rules but not instance rules that sit without action for 24 hours or more, that’s when I’ll get involved with the community to try and get more active mods.
If the reports are for posts that break instance rules, I’ll action them whether or not there are local mods active.
That’s because from a mastodon perspective, that’s what they are!
They’re basically the same thing as gup.pe groups to them
Which famously, never shut down and take their content with them :P