Die Oma hat #SPD gewählt. Weil die für Arbeiter und gegen Nazis waren, anders als die anderen Parteien. Die Oma hatte auch "schon immer" ein Bild von Willy Brandt auf dem Fernseher stehen (und bevor sie einen Fernseher hatte wahrscheinlich auf der Radio-Kommode). Ein "waschechter Widerstandskämpfer" gegen das Dritte Reich! Das machte Sinn.

Der Papa hat auch immer #SPD gewählt, wahrscheinlich wegen der Oma. Bis es dann zu viel wurde mit Gerhard Schröder und der offensichtlich tief-rechts angehauchten, neoliberalen "Agenda 2010". Von dann an wurde zwischen #Buendnis90DieGruenen sowie #PDS und #DieLinke oszilliert. Die #SPD war endgültig in Missgunst gefallen in der Familie. Scheinbar ohne jede Chance. (Bei mir ja sowieso.)

Nur jetzt wo der Papa leider dement ist, jetzt kommt die #SPD zurück. "I hob do scho imma fia'd SPD g'stimmt!?!" sagt der Papa. Leider ist halt nur noch die Erinnerung an die "gute alte Zeit" nach dem Krieg wach. Die Zeit in der die #SPD noch für etwas stand. Und ich nehme an dass wenn diese jetzt demente Generation eines Tages ganz abtritt von der #SPD nichts mehr übrig bleiben wird. Aus, Ende.

Aber das scheint ja wenig bis gar nicht zu stören: Die gesamte #SPD Führung und alle #SPD Minister bereiten sich ja sowieso schon auf den reibungslosen Übertritt in den zutiefst-rechten, voll-autoritären, national-konservativen #noCDU #noCSU #noFDP #noAfD Komplex vor.

Die Oma rotiert jetzt schon im Grab. Oder ist eine Windhose in der Urne? Der Papa wird das wohl auch einmal tun falls es einen Himmel gibt. Aber Lars Klingbeil und Co. denen wird's auch im wieder braun gebrannten Deutschland weiterhin exzellent gehen. Man geht halt mit der Zeit...

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I've been wanting to talk about this for a bit, but I've been so busy with life crap that I've hardly had any time for myself.

So, it's been about two and a half months since I quit #Youtube for the #boycott that started August 13th (Youtube has unsurprisingly continued to deteriorate since then), and I've been trying my best to use #PeerTube as a replacement. Today, I'd like to share other observations I've made.

Initially, I stayed on instances like Makertube and Spectra.video, but found their content output highly wanting. So, I bookmarked one of the most federated instances I could find, GayTubeFR. GayTubeFR is currently federated with over 1,400 servers, so you'd think they'd have plenty uploaded there, right?

Well, I decided to manually count the amount of videos uploaded in a single 24 hour period (in English) on a Friday and it's not looking good. Despite being federated with over 1,400 instances, there were only 135 videos uploaded in a single day, less than 10% of the total federation count. What else was concerning was that the majority of videos were bulk/spam/mirror uploads by the same few channels instead of it being all unique channels, so the amount of instances that actually upload daily is definitely below that 10%. Isn't that fucked? The idea that the vast majority of entire INSTANCES don't have a single upload per day? If each instance federated with GayTubeFR uploaded at least ONE video a day, then there'd be at least be 1,400+ videos daily, but we're not even close to that.

There have been many days where I just straight up could not find something I was interested in over that 24-hour period. The conclusion I've come to is that PeerTube's activity is abysmal and honestly nowhere close to being a replacement for Youtube, and it makes me sad to say that.

The quality of a lot of the content is also lacking, which makes it even harder to find something genuinely engaging.

I've said it before, but I think the best course of action to remedy this is to contact #Youtubers and suggest to them to use PeerTube as a backup to avoid Youtube's censorship. Because the only reason Youtube is as cracked as it is is because of the creators, NOT the platform. I don't miss Youtube; I miss the creators I used to watch and their personalities. Even if it's not fully moving them out of Youtube's system, it's a step in the right direction.

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I love how different experiences modulate each other. When it is hot and muggy out, the smell of seaweed rolling off the nearby ocean can smell fetid and almost rotting.

But here in early autumn, as the temperature drops and the hints of frost touch the air and breath steams, the brine smells..refreshing. Like the cool somehow gives the salt rolling in a cleansing quality, even though I know that at core, the smell should be identical to how it is in summer.

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Videos who overly censor themselves, my beloathed. Videos who censor harmless words like beat, death, grooming, kill, abuse, rape, violence, or unironically use words like "un-alive" need to stop and touch grass. I feel like a goddamn toddler when videos treat such basic words like they're slurs. These are not dirty words, these are not slurs, you using them isn't going to harm anyone.

It's better to teach kids these words and how to use them so they can use them properly and responsibly, and give them the means to possibly relay their own experiences to trusted adults. Also, most small children know what fucking "kill" is and probably far worse, there are plenty of shows geared towards small children that use words like kill and death JUST FINE, and yet these Youtube videos NOT intended for children on a 13+ platform CAN'T??? You're not going to stop kids from learning these words, but you *can* stop them from using them incorrectly. Arm them with knowledge instead of constantly shielding them from harmless goddamn words.

Part of me thinks this is the spread of #TikTok 's excessive censorship leaking out into other platforms because I've seen people complain about similar things on #Tumblr before, but I don't have much evidence besides comparing and contrasting other digital platforms to TikTok in a before and after kind of style.

And like, it's just an insult to the intelligence of the viewers. As like I said, most kids already know these words, and trying to hide these words from them is an insult to their intelligence, and especially to older viewers as well. What does this censorship *do*, exactly? I know not all of it is to stay monetized because I've literally fucking seen "I Murdered a Customer" in the title of a monetized video before, so that's not it. Like, why? And regardless, stop it. Stop treating your audience like literal babies.

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