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Cake day: August 1st, 2025
  • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earthtoFediverse@lemmy.world•We should make a song contest where artist(s) from each instance sings/plays a song, like Eurovision (I am aware of Lemmyvision's existence)
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    3 months ago

    somebody else singing a song is usually fine considering the amount of covers on YouTube

    Just because it’s on YouTube doesn’t mean it’s safe to do. YouTube has a whole range of agreements with different record companies so that in many cases copyrighted music will be used, but YouTube’s contentID (I think that’s what it’s called?) system IDs it and reroutes the ad revenue to the “appropriate” record company.

    IANAL, but I do know that compositions can be and do get copyrighted - see the avril Lavigne vs Rubinos case, where the allegation was that Avril Lavigne’s song “Girlfriend” sounded too similar to one of the Rubino’s songs. The case was, unfortunately for us, settled behind closed doors, but it goes to show how far copyright law can go. Which, TBH, is disappointing, because on the whole, I like the idea, but well, copyright ruins a number of things.

    As to the state of Peertube, I’ve not run into any problems. I’ve mostly watched videos that The Linux experiment uploads himself to Peertube, but that has been pretty flawless recently. And especially in a case like this, which could potentially generate a significant amount of traffic, I don’t see why it wouldn’t work from a technical standpoint - more peers generally means those kind of P2P systems work better.

    What I do worry about with Peertube is the whole copyright situation (again, copyright ruins everything). Since you’re reuploading what you’re watching to others, if copyrighted content were to be uploaded (which can happen very quickly in a music contest), it could potentially be open season for copyright trolls.

    I don’t want to be a downer, I honestly hate the way copyright ruins this stuff. But I think it’s important to keep in the back of your mind in order to avoid it turning into more headaches than fun.

  • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earthtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Reddit keeps pushing on being a closed platform, now rolling out mandatory logging for old.reddit.com - worth pushing for the fediverse again?
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    4 months ago

    I believe Lemmy has the potential for a wider range of discussion and debate than Reddit, or any other social media platform I’ve been on, simply because of the defederated & community-based system.

    In theory, I agree with you - and that was my very hope when I first got into the fediverse. Unfortunately, the reality has proven to be different…

    The issue, as you describe, seems to be saying the wrong thing in the wrong place, which, to be honest, is similar to the real world.

    Except it’s much, much worse than in the real world. I’ve been in circles with right wingers, and I am notoriously stubborn about not hiding my viewpoint (which very often clashes with that of right wingers), and even there the reaction is less crazy than on Lemmy.

    For example, you can’t walk up to a group of homosexuals and try to convince them they shouldn’t be gay.

    That’s not the kind of thing I’m talking about. Of course something like that would go over like a lead balloon - in that case also because that’s borderline in factual in its assumptions. A better comparison would be a conversation naturally wondering to the risks of anal sex if not done carefully and being chastised and banned for that.

    Even if he was, he was in no place to take it into his own hands to address (especially in a secretive way).

    I neither said nor implied that, in fact I said quite the opposite…

    If you see a lot of toxicity where you browse, maybe your chosen community just isn’t a healthy one.

    And that’s exactly the problem. More work. More digging. More research. People come to these sites to have fun and often don’t have the patience nor the interest to filter through all the communities.

  • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earthtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Reddit keeps pushing on being a closed platform, now rolling out mandatory logging for old.reddit.com - worth pushing for the fediverse again?
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    4 months ago

    This may be unpopular to say here, but the fediverse needs to be less toxic for the average user. I’m probably going to be downvoted to hell for this, but here goes: the whole tesseract situation was a clusterfuck and the dev is a jackass, but in one regard he is right - there is a toxicity problem. I mean, let’s look at it:

    • Lemmy’s main dev is what many would refer to as a tankie. He regularly spreads misinformation, supporting fascist governments, so long as they claim to be socialist or communist - and don’t belong to the west. Anything the West does is, by definition, evil.

    • Lemmy’s flagship instance is lemmy.ml. An instance where many communities have a “be nice” rule, but say anything against the (similarly aligned) group think and you’ll be ridiculed, insulted, and banned. Meanwhile, some pretty insane calls for violence stay up. And lemmy.ml isn’t even the worst in that corner of the fediverse.

    • There are many other instances that aren’t great, either. Wander into an instance and accidentally say something absolutely factual that someone doesn’t like - ban, because some thin skinned mod sees it as derogatory. Remember the whole dragonfucker saga? Yeah, that’s very off-putting to your average user.

    Look, I’m no stranger to Reddit group think, I’ve had it turn on me, and trust me, it’s no fun. Hell, I’ve had it on Facebook back when that was still a thing (yeah, I’m dating myself here). But it was nothing on what I’ve seen on here. I’ve been able to avoid it here (or, sometimes I’ve purposefully wandered into it in an attempt to disrupt an echo chamber, but then I knew exactly what I was getting into and expected as much), but what I saw happening to others - holy shit. I mean, to be fair, the instance I’m on is an instance that very rarely defederates, which I like because I like seeing different viewpoints including ones with which I vehemently disagree with (although the viewpoints are very unbalanced, that does have to be said). But it’s a hell of a lot more fun to not have to keep your guard up all the time.

    So, you might argue, be careful which instance you chose. OK, so I chose an instance like Lemmy.world, which as far as Lemmy goes, is definitely more on the normal side of things. But then, who are they federated with? The next rabbit hole. And how do you know which ones have less crazies? Experience. And as a saying goes, experience is what you needed just before you got it. Then many people suggest putting together blocklist and what not. Another rabbit hole. Put briefly: it involves work, a lot of it. People aren’t on Reddit to work (for the most part), they’re there to have fun. If you need to put in so much work, at some point it’s not fun anymore. And that’s what’s off-putting for the typical user.

    What can be done to make it more palatable for normal users? I honestly don’t know. I see it as a chicken and egg problem. We need more “normal” people to drown out the crazies, but then the “normal” people won’t come because of the crazies. Maybe Piefed is better in that regard - although I’ve heard there were/are?tesseract-style problems there, as well - I just haven’t had the nerve to go down yet another rabbit hole to figure out what’s actually going on. Which brings us back to square one - that’s already gone way, way too far for the average user. And I can’t exactly blame them. I’m “only” here because I care about open source and decentralisation. And I insist on staying here on matter of principle. But I can’t in good faith recommend it to anyone I know IRL.

    Anyway, sorry for the long rant. Maybe someone has some better ideas.