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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • YouTube can burn.

    They generate more money than whole countries and you want to give them more? I don’t have to pay them shit for them to make money off of me from my browsing history alone.

    I would rather speed forward the enshittification to the point that all creators decide to strike and hop over collectively to another, kinder, video hosting site.

    In the meantime Google benefits from my viewing data/history and sells that over and over. They’re making money hand over fist and then when you pay them for a “premium” experience you’re just handing them more. You’re already a cash cow for them with just using the site. Screw that noise.

    Give directly to the creator.










  • Finally a good argument, thank you.

    I agree that premium splits the percentage of my cash equally and easily but only 55% bugs me. That’s an arbitrary number based off of some black box calculation.

    I do not trust YouTube to have my or the creators best interest in mind.

    If this number was 90% for creators I would consider it fair. The majority of the work comes from creators and is the reason YouTube has any people at its doorstep.

    In the meantime, I can still far less effectively make use of my money the way I want to until a better alternative comes around.

    I’ll just have the sweat it and try harder to be a better consumer, I guess.


  • I would be fine if YouTube crumbled and was put into second place by a better platform or two.

    Yes it’s the best option currently which is why they can do such ridiculous practices.

    But once they have actual competition, I expect them to bend over backwards for my attention. Because if they don’t change the current trajectory, they’ll go the way of the other digital giants of the past.

    Do not worry about having a viable platform in a future without YouTube. I am 100% sure there will be one.





  • “Free Open Source Software”

    I think.

    Sync is the odd man out because even though it’s free to use, it’s ad driven, and then there’s a yearly subscription service for no ads.

    Honestly, it’s a good app with a good developer. If supporting good work is your thing, I see no reason to use it free or with subscription. It supports him, and if you don’t like it…you always have FOSS apps which arent as polished but completely free.

    FOSS apps are important because they’ll always be the standard of “acceptable” and alternative apps MUST be better if they want you to give up your hard earned time and money for it.

    Just take a look at Reddit.


  • Going to lose a family friend to pancreatic cancer in a few months. The life expectancy after symptoms is like 6months. It’s brutally fast.

    The problem is the speed. This research might not “stop” this form of cancer, but if it opens up roads to makes it more detectable? So we can get to it earlier to treat it or manage it. I’ll take that.

    Maybe we can move that number from 6 months life expectancy to something that would give some more time. Maybe we could stop it all together. Whatever it is, all information is useful in the fight. I just hope we get some mileage out of this soon before it takes more loved ones.