It’s OK the secretary of education was only promoting steak sauce in the classrooms.

I mean I agree… it’s kind of the constant crux isn’t it?

The IT nerds pick a protocol that’s uncontrolled, you need to select options and servers, because… well obviously that’s kind of the definition of uncontrolled.

Some big name with big VC backing makes a big platform, makes it simple as possible, no choices, no control but good defaults. Average joes all flock there, build huge communities, users happy. Obviously the bulk of the creative types, celebrities etc… that most people care about flock there.

Big corp or VCs start demanding more monetization, or political censorship, or whatever kind of enshittification they inevitably always will. Users complain, but it all continues to amplify… open communities announce “hey we’ve got our alternative here”, they say “thanks but nah that’s too complicated, and you don’t have the users that I want to see anyway”. People complain more… and either adapt and accept the enshitification as normal… or maybe another big VC backed individual or other corp opens an alternative and pulls off the impossible critical mass goal, and process repeats.

I don’t really know the solution, just know the pattern. Bluesky is IMO the new twitter… fundimentally I don’t see it as super different than the old twitter. Only way I really see everything working is if say… a corporate backed giant actually played nicely and allowed interoperability with a federated protocol that’s actually… well hostable.

It’s basically like exactly what happens out in the real world… walmart comes offers better convenience and lower prices than local competitors… local economy adapts to walmart, individual stores shut down… half of owners, etc… forced to working for walmart for garbage pay.

I believe in mullvad there’s a setting to “allow local traffic”,

Navigate: to the Preferences or Settings menu. Find: the option for “Local network sharing” and enable it by turning the switch on

or if you are using CLI

mullvad lan set allow

in short, most vpn clients have an option to not override local traffic. while still directing everything outside of your LAN through the VPN.

I mean if you are talking pre-google youtube, I don’t believe it had a subscription model… or any real plan to profit or pay it’s creators. It was both hemorrhaging money itself, and giving it’s creators nothing.

Post google youtube, I guess yeah it is, but worth noting mostly it isn’t exactly a high production values system, with the exception of like mr beast etc… which make a boatload of money by still following the same traps as regular TV, catering to the lowest common denominators, microanalyzing maximum views on every aspect.

People DON’T want to pay for loads of small channels, they want to pay someone once and get everything they want.

That varries a bit, yes they want to pay someone once for everything they want. But they really hate seeing their bill go up more and more each year, while getting less of what they want every year. When their bill goes up from 120 to 150, and all they see happen is adding a bunch of channels they don’t want, they start feeling like the bulk of their money is going into things they don’t want.

I agree, the 2 options are a fairly low price that includes EVERYTHING including what they want… or extremely low prices but at least some confirmation that what they are paying for is actually what they want.

Agreed netflix as it was when streaming picked up but before everyone and their grandmother started their own streaming channel was pretty ideal, low cost and had just about everything.

but yeah once everything was evenly distributed among Netflix, Hulu, Apple, paramount, amazon etc… those days are gone. But the concept still applies that the real pet peve for users that want to get their own, is they’d want to pay one low cost to get the shows that they want. But no matter what your tastes are… odds are what you want is perfectly evenly spaced among the competing channels, and would easily cost well over 100 a month to actually get it.

IMO the biggest thing is in the fracturing they had the ability to do what everyone thought cable should do.

IE cable packages could have been made to work, if say they were actually split by genre or similar. But instead if you want a package for X, you pay for 500 channels you don’t want.

IE if the streaming services split up by genre. Like off the top of my head discovery + was the only one that IMO did a cool thing, IE focused on purely giving a solid theme where if you like educational type programs, that’s the one to get.

If there were like a sci fi focused streaming, or comedy etc… but rather than going focused, we’ve got 20 generalists. As a result if say you only like one type of show, you need to buy 6 streaming services, for the 6 good shows in that genre.

I would be mad, but, I’d also say go. Honestly when I was about 19, my mom more or less did this, in short she spent weeks talking up a hair dresser friend at church, commented that she played D&D, Eventually arranged for me to join her, and get a hair cut.

I talked with her, didn’t really go anywhere, From my understanding the girl afterwards kind of responded to my mom something along the lines of “I know you are hoping I’d be your son’s future wife but that’s not where I am in life right now”, and all the embarassment went on my mom for that.

So yeah, if you ask me, give it a shot, if it sucks, you’ve got solid standing to tell your dad not to do that shit again, if it’s good, maybe something good can come from it.

Though to my understanding, it is from them… to my knowledge if a shop gets broken into, in their territory you don’t call them, they already are aware and hunting down the perpetrators. Kind of what gang wars are… one gang basically declares an area their territory, if another gang takes action in that area they are basically declaring a gang war.

Obviously gangs know it’s bad for business if they want to collect protection money, and they aren’t overwhelmingly the biggest thing to be afraid of.

Suffering isn’t good, but good can come from suffering, but certainly doesn’t always.

A harsh breakup can lead to personal growth.

A loss of a job could lead to a better job and possibly better money management strategies.

But a kid born into abject poverty in an undeveloped villiage, spends his whole life scraping by in suffering always hungry until succumbing to a slow painful death – no good, no meaning.

Mostly the idea that suffering is good is more common in religious ideologies that need an excuse to explain why their powerful god doesn’t step in and fix things.

I mean I don’t really consider him a deplorable person… He was a dumb edgy teen 15 years ago that happened to strike a cord with the overwhelming amount of dumb edgy teens on youtube, and strike it rich. I haven’t paid a ton of attention to him, but from what I saw of his linux and gadget crafting videos, it sounds like he’s grown up a fair amount from his days of scream streaming.