The advantage of the fediverse is how well it should be able to scale, thanks to its federated nature. A big part of the problem with YouTube is that its large scale but centralised nature means that they just throw AI at the moderation problem, and it is infamously terrible. Censoring important conversations and sensitive subjects, while letting through actual child abuse. And because it’s centralised, users (both viewers and creators) don’t have an easy option to turn somewhere else without losing the whole network effect.

It’s compounded by the fact that the majority of monetisation on there is driven by advertising. Direct funding via a Patreon-like model (optional payment to receive some minor bonuses, primarily for supporting the creator), a Nebula-style model (subscription to access content), or a BATish model (forget most of the actual details of BAT, especially the crypto, but imagine a system—which could be voluntary or mandatory depending on the individual system, creator, or piece of content—in which users stick a bunch of money into a wallet, and it is automatically shared with the creators whose content they are viewing in some fair manner). Not having actual advertisements, combined with better, more local moderation decisions, would help stave off the biggest problems with YouTube.

The “making money” bit doesn’t need to be imported, necessarily. It’s not an end unto itself. But if we want a large amount of high-quality content, while society is capitalistic, then it does. Because high-quality content takes a lot of time to produce, and not many people can afford to do it as a hobby. The scenario you’re describing means that who have the skills to do it could do it while making money on YouTube or Patreon, or they could do it for free on the fediverse while not making money (or making money in a more conventional job, creating the stuff that we love them for only in their spare time—limiting the quantity they can produce).

Honestly the best YouTube alternative at the moment is Nebula. The problem is that it’s a closed system. You can’t just make an account and start uploading, you have to be invited. So the range of content is fairly limited compared to YouTube. But unlike many other platforms, it is designed to be fairly general-purpose. There are some excellent individual creators’ platforms, like Dropout, Viva+, Club TWiT, etc. But you only get a single creator/team’s videos on those. Dropout is improv comedy. Viva+ is sketch comedy. Club TWiT is tech news. Whereas Nebula is more of a coop owned by tens of different creators with content including news, media analysis (including film, games, and music), politics, science, short films, game shows, and more. It’s not federated, but it’s independent and worker owned-ish.

at my own expense

I reckon if companies were required to pay you for your commute (or, let’s say, a standardised one hour extra per day if being physically in the office is required, so as not to incentivise people living far from work), there’d be a lot more WFH.

Fishhook theory > horseshoe theory

Isn’t that still dual booting? Unless you have two PCs (even if you somehow rigged both PCs up in the same case with separate power buttons), you need a bootloader to choose which drive to boot off of. And unless I’m mistaken, two drives is not going to look notably different to the bootloader from two partitions on the same drive, is it?

I don’t know how those Kernel level anti cheat things work

Not something that matters to me anyway. I don’t own any such games currently, and don’t intend to change that.

But thanks for the tips re the bootloader!

Amusingly, just a couple of minutes after posting that comment, I went to the aoe2 Reddit to check if I was missing some details about a recent patch (for details related to this Lemmy post I had just made). And one of the first posts I saw was this one complaining about that very-much-not-AAA game failing to run recently.

The games in that franchise are like 90% of my gaming tbh. They all get great scores on ProtonDB, but the use a kinda weird hybrid of your Steam account and your Microsoft/Xbox account for syncing player details, and one of my concerns is the Xbox account might not work correctly.

Worst case you just resort to dual boot (don’t forget, always install Windows first)

Yeah, dual booting was definitely the plan. I didn’t know you need to install Windows first though, that’s…disappointing. And frustrating. My plan was to install Linux, stick with that for as long as I can, and if I later decide I need Windows for something, install it then.

or VM

Could be a good option. Dunno how smoothly these games would run in a VM, but worth a shot, and much better than needing to dual boot, if it does work smoothly.

Is Terminal installed by default? I feel like I had to go out and get it manually. It’s a single application with a UI to PowerShell, Windows Command Prompt, WSL, and any other terminals you might have. Maybe Windows 11 has it by default? But I feel like if someone has gone out of their way to install the application, Windows should definitely not be showing a web search result over it.

I honestly don’t mind the fact there’s search there. I do mind the fact that there are any circumstances in which it would default to the web search over a correctly-spelled (or even a correct partial-match) application on my computer. That should never happen.

What does this comment mean?

You can just do reddit

Huh? What does that have to do with anything? Nobody mentioned Reddit, or any websites that they “do”.

A lot of people need various different specific software. Some don’t need it but really want it. The comment you replied to was fairly clear: “if you have to use Windows 11”. In that context:

No need for 3rd Party Software at all. I’m team Linux

Makes no sense.

Yeah that’s my plan. My processor won’t even support Windows 11, so that’s not an option. (I used to think it was a TPM2.0 issue, but checked more recently and it’s not. They just even more arbitrarily decided my processor is too old, while also claiming Windows 11 has the same or lower overhead than 10!) I’m also not far away from needing a hard drive, RAM, and GPU upgrade. So I figure some time reasonably soon I’ll build a new PC. That one won’t be getting Windows on it, unless I discover a game or something that I can’t run on Linux.

“Front is door”? Also, we’re looping 14 times, and performing the exact same action every time, without actually doing anything with the iterator. Why?

I’m more than happy to say that the genocide Israel is currently committing is far, far worse than anything any other country that anyone in this thread has mentioned.

But it’s also just more whataboutism on top of whataboutism. One country being equally bad, or even worse, does not excuse the behaviour of another. And bringing it up in a thread aimed at calling out one country serves no purpose other than to try and distract from its atrocities.

from one of Lemmy’s admitted Zionists.

Sorry what? What comment is that based on?

I’m not here to discuss the merits of the argument. Especially not with someone engaging in such obvious bad-faith reasoning.

Maybe you should follow the link to see why I’d say that with obvious sarcasm

I picked up on it. And then discarded it, because of who made the comment. The sarcastic reading is a complete reversal of the reasoning in the rest of your comments.

You deflected to “both sides”.

lol what? You were the one who initiated the whataboutism here.