DelApr 29, 2017

"you reek of pseudo-intellectual. youre just another ugly slut that uses the title of gamer girl to attract all the omega autists of the world.
I hope you get raped and beaten in front of the person you love the most in this world."

This is what it's like being a woman on the internet, by the way. This is an unprovoked comment I got on my youtube channel where I'd post content about videogames and computers. This was by no means a rare occurrence.

Show threadTomas SA2TMSApr 29, 2017
@welshpixie I tend to respond to people like this with variants of "you must be fun at parties". But then I also don't get gendered abuse. "Nerd." is also simple yet effective

What @mmn said also, at least in the long term. In the short term double-posting to YT and say a self-hosted MediaGoblin tied to your Mastdon account (so it re-publishes the MG feed or so) could be quite effective and helps bring about the inevitable end of GOOG
Show threadDelApr 29, 2017
@tomas @mmn So saying 'move to blah instead' is fine if you're only after a host and not a community of engagement and opportunity to monetise because you're broke and being able to get some extra money through ad revenue and sponsorships literally helps pay your bills every month. It's not a solution, it's an opt-out for people who have the luxury of choosing that.
Show threadTomas SA2TMSApr 29, 2017
@welshpixie Yes and no. Keeping oneself housed and fed will always take priority of course, so opting out entirely is likely not possible (yet). But GOOG and the rest of the centralized Web have shown unwilling to defend basic human decency in favor of blind liberalism and greed. Perhaps I'm too pessimistic though, having been in the trenches for quite some time by this point

As a huge nerd myself I think "nerd" can fill many useful roles, depending on context :) Calling sexists "sexists" doesn't seem to work very well, but "nerd" sure as hell does. At the same time there's less stigma associated with the word compared to the 90's - young people don't seem to get ostracized as much these days for having passion for narrow interests
Show threadDel
@tomas yeah, it's definitely a huge and ongoing struggle fighting back against that whole thing. :(
Apr 29, 2017 at 4:49pmWeb
Show threadTomas SA2TMSApr 29, 2017
@welshpixie makes me wonder if it would be possible to run a video site as a non-profit
Show threadDelApr 29, 2017
@tomas Yeah, I think there's definitely a space for something like that to exist but (obviously among many other issues) for it to be worthwhile for those people who help earn a living through YT, it'd probably need to have a significant reach, and that'd take a while to get :(
Show threadTomas SA2TMSApr 29, 2017
@welshpixie my only thought is I have more followers on here than YT
Show threadMMN-o ✅⃠Apr 29, 2017
@tomas Disk space and bandwidth is essentially gratis. What is needed is that we all quit our dayjobs and start hacking on the software!
Show threadMMN-o ✅⃠Apr 29, 2017
@tomas PS. Buy all the disks and network cabling before you quit your job.
Show threadTomas SA2TMSApr 29, 2017
@mmn must pay rent, for now. But: disk costs maintainance. Need to seed things even if webtorrents. Ask @mikael
Show threadMikaelApr 30, 2017
In sweden a gigabit costs around €70-80 for personal use (some have server restrictions), around €300-€500 for company customers (restrictions on reselleling bandwidth). Transit costs around €300-30000 for gigabit and only available only on certain locations( PoP, direct fiber to transit providers), there are also extra costs, like €150 for colocation at pop site, €50 for cable to the next room, RIPE is €1500 per year. (Needed to get own ips)

So I would claim that slow internet is really cheap and fast internet is expensive/bothersome. Torrent is a great solution for that. Ceph my favourite storage system has an automatic torrent generator for all files shared via their amazon s3 clone, rgw. All that is needed is to mark the file public and add ?torrent to the url.
Show threadTomas SA2TMSApr 30, 2017
@mikael so in essence the real limit is storage, for seeding. But perhaps that responsibility can be put on the content creators. Want to have a channel? Seed!
Show threadMikaelApr 30, 2017
@tomas yes, some easy tools for transcoding and analytics is needed. S3 might be a good api to standardise on as it makes it simple to scale up and there are lots of existing tools for it. I am not aware of a simple rpi class S3 implementation though.
Show threadcharlag test accountMay 2, 2017
. @tomas @mikael so, that's why Spotify is so expensive