The holy hand grenade of Antioch is one of the most powerful relics known to Christendom.

Yeah. Maybe call it microtransactions. Or maybe make it a game where you get “stickers” you can post on videos you like. “Stickers” being the equivalent of a like with your avatar posted somewhere on the video page.

When I look at the trending videos on YouTube, it makes me want to become a hermit and have no contact with society, the videos are so bad. I think the money side of YouTube has totally corrupted it.

As a PeerTube creator, I make videos as a way to teach/inform/entertain, not to make money. One way to make PeerTube work is to find a way to fund the hosts/instances that transcode and store the video files.

It would be interesting to create a crypto coin and have PeerTube users, both creators and viewers, to buy a small amount of the coin (a few dollars worth) when they register, then each video that they watch costs a small fraction of a coin paid to the instance hosting the video, and the viewer could add a tip to the creator if they liked the video. The amount paid to the instance might be an approximation of the cost to host the video. Accumulating the coin might be a game not an income source for the creators, but there might be enough money to fund the instances with this scheme.

There certainly is value in quality video that people are willing to pay for. It would be nice to find an alternative to advertising based video.

Another side of video that YouTube is not doing a good job at is creating community. The comment section is hard to follow, impossible to search, and it is transient, as new videos are created, comments on old videos disappear. I don’t know how to do it, but creating a forum or a lemmy group for each creator or each video interest group with multiple creators involved would be extremely powerful.

You are looking at step 1 when you see US actions as related to the federal budget deficit. Step 2 is to reduce the trade deficit and bring home manufacturing and other production. The strategy for Step 2 will be devaluing the $USD.

Krasnov is lying

Hopefully we can block it.

The biggest issue would be YouTube fingerprinting my RSS browser. But I am trying to learn about privacy, so I don’t know anything.

Another episode in the series: “Krasnov Speaks”.

How do you do that?

The CDU seems to be working to fix all the problems that Merkel caused.

RE supporting the auto industry, when you find yourself stuck in a hole, dig deeper.

One way to replace the syrup would be to use chopped dates or prunes. You can also buy date sugar, which is not real sugar but is made entirely of dates.

Try different locations.

Bob Probert (RIP)

Zelensky For President!

Trump is a Russian agent.

The best response to US tariffs is to make free trade deals with UK, EU and others. Free trade will win over protectionism. Protectionism is just dumb and counterproductive.

It is a shame that SPD and Union did not work together in the last government to try to resolve some of the problems that cause the voters to move to the right.

Another analog is that eastern Germany voted very differently than western and southern Germany.

One major difference, in 1930 the far right was anti-Russia, and today they are pro-Russia.

I bought a domain name and got a web host. I set the index page to be blank and only use the web host for email. It works well. I still have gmail but try to move everything to my own domain email.

Make a list of search terms

Search on a term

Open an interesting video, watch it

Look at the recommended videos in the sidebar, choose one

Repeat