You made my knees hurt.

You can always make your own instance and moderate your own comments.

Be aware that no one is forced to keep federated with your instance.

IP law firms tried to get their cases into my country and they only got a 50% success rate on court so they stopped trying (cost benefit thing I suppose).

Also private trackers in my country do not allow the use of VPN (why do they care IDK, they say it is to have more control on who join), so there’s little point on getting a VPN for piracy here.

I agree with all those points.

I don’t know if adding exceptional cases to de equation adds to the argument or not. But there are many instances where the ones selling the product are not the ones that made it, and the ones that made it will never see a penny of what you paid for. This is true in old games/media, where rights were bought long ago by corporations and creators see nothing. Also true in any big production made by a big corporation with many workers. The workers who actually create the IP were paid by hour, while corporations and investors get to keep milking the product after creators had been paid.

This will invalidate any argument about creators getting compensated for their work. For those cases at least.

Why rely on google which is going down on reliability so quickly.

What we need is a GOOD lemmy based search engine. Which I think is entirely possible with current lemmy implementation.

Instance picking can be overwhelming. Making people just not even try it.

I do think a big challenge for the fediverse is how to ease that. And make it like e-mail where @whocares is not that important and it’s easy to actually have a custom domain/instance.

And, of course, to achieve this instance admins should be really be responsible with defederations and bans. And only use it as last resort, probably only because of legal reasons. Not because “I don’t like that instance admins main political thesis”. Probably that kind of blocks are better to be left to the user.

Yes. The act of voting a comment up or down shouldn’t be much different to hitting reply to that comment.

Upvote/downvote systems do exist to overcome those “+1” “-1” posts on old forums. You are not voting for the legislative elections. You are just interacting with another person comment/post in a way that does not require writing. If post comments, are not anonymous, upvotes/downvotes shouldn’t be anonymous as well.

All my homies search for apps first in F-Droid and only use google play if there is no other option.

I sporadically use it. Sometimes it can pin point the specific algorithm I need that I didn’t know about.

What I mean is what is already happening in some countries, that is having laws that makes extra easy for copyright lawers to sue anyone using torrent for sharing their IP.

You use a vpn to other country without that ban. Once enough countries apply that ban. Where are you going to VPN to?

Ask Germany. Torrenting without VPN is almost imposible, you’ll get sued by copyright lawyers.

I do not avoid hoarding.

I’m like a dragon with a media treasure stored in high capacity industrial HDDs.

Someday the age of pirates may come to an end, and I want to be prepared.

Enough countries ban torrenting so you cannot even uses vpn to get around it.

It’s true that peer tube is the ugly duck of the fediverse right now. But I don’t think is about monetization.

On its core it’s true that is the most complex project as videos are resource heavy, and producing videos is time consuming.

I don’t think people does not make videos because lack of monetization but because lack of users. And there are little users because there are little content.

IMHO the UI and UX should be the smoothest of all fediverse because it need to put it as easy as it can to everyone to attract as many users or creators as possible.

Because, let’s be true, monetization (even you can already monetize if you want) is useless is there’s nobody watching anyway.

With caddy you can easily set up a local issued certificate for https. It would shine a nice warming on your browser unless you install the CA certificate on the computer you use to visit the site though.

https://caddyserver.com/docs/automatic-https#local-https

This is the easiest way I know how to do it. Caddy takes almost no configuration to get working.

TubeArchivist with a browser extension to easily download any interesting video I want to preserve.

I have pending to link TubeArchivist to jellyfin for a more convenient frontend for my videos.

Am I missing something with Wireguard? Isn’t it just a open source VPN software?

What’s wrong with it?

I’m from Spain.

But I know that in Latin America they also used to change the title of some media sometimes. Funny enough they used different titles than in Spain.

For instance, the movie “White Chicks” in Spain is “Dos rubias de pelo en pecho” and in Latin America is “¿Y donde están las rubias?”.

It’s also just two words. Spanish worlds tend to be longer than english ones.

“Muertos” is a direct translation of “dead”.

“Evil” would be “maligno”, but “terroríficamente” was used "which would be like “terrifying”.

Anyway spanish translations used to change a lot the titles of the movies back in the day, most famously “die hard” is “la jungla de cristal” (directly translated as: the glass jungle) here.

I’ve heard that they did this because direct translations or english titles didn’t work as well here, and a change in the title made more people want to watch the movie.

Nowadays this happens way less, most titles are direct translations or use their english title directly.