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  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldgoodbye plex
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    6 days ago

    I’ve been using jellyfin for years.

    My best recommendation is DELAY UPDATES and back up before you update.

    I have a history of updates breaking everything so you should be careful about them.

    All software recommends backing up before an update, but for really the shit is real, you really want to back up.


  • How does it differentiate an “AI crawler”, from any other crawler? Search engine crawler? Someone monitoring data to offer statistics? Archiving?

    This is not good. They are most likely doing the crawling themselves and them selling the data to the best bidder. That bidder could obviously be openAI for all we know.

    They just know that introducing the sentence “this is anti AI” a lot of people is not going to question anything.






  • I think one of the biggest obstacles in donations is lack of transparency of what’s going on with the donated money.

    Nowadays I tend to only donate to projects that have full transparency on what the money is being used for.

    I don’t know if it’s the case as the presented case is not an instance I use. But on general before donating any money is the first thing I look up, and if it’s not clear I just hold my money.

    But it is known that donations usually cannot sustain projects, specially “user donations”. For a project to be able to have a steady and sizeable influx of money there need to be whale donators or corporations that donate to it. Relying on user donations will always mean a very little amount of money, and I don’t think that’s going to change as most people don’t have that much disposable income anyway.

    I think p2p and true decentralization is the way to go. Don’t get me wrong, fediverse is great, but is not as much decentralized as “less centralized”, truly decentralized model should be p2p. I’ve said several times that the ess centralized" model have a critical failure point and that is that instances are under a lot of pressure, economic, legal and administrative. And we are burning people out and spending all their money, because it’s a model that relies in a few number of people taking that big burden.

    I think a model that the burden is smaller and mor spread among the user base will be more resilient, at least on this aspect.

    Also I take the change to put up a critique on domain costs, it’s not much, but it’s part of this topic and surely they should be cheaper, as domain cost is 90% speculation and very little labor cost. I don’t know if there’s any project to democratize domain names in the clearnet, but there should be one.


  • I know plenty of small groups with their own webpage dealing with most of that. It’s not that big of a deal.

    I selfhost my own searxng, both labor and electricity cost are so small they are negligible.

    My point is that if I am to be in al “alternative” economy is not to make rich a cool San Francisco dude instead of Jeff Bezos, is to not make rich anyone at my expenses. When I ask for something different I do not ask for making rich different people, I ask for a system that does not make rich anyone.

    For instance Lemmy. Lemmy does not ask for subscriptions nor have ads. Voluntary donations are more than enough to keep it on float. Other people like Kagi CEO or some other CEOs like that would ask a subscription fee for lemmy and guilt trip people into thinking it’s necessary, when it’s not.


  • But there is free lunch.

    That argument I’ve seen it used precisely by adventure capitalist targeting rich alternative people to guilt trip them into their services. When those services could perfectly be free or cheaper without relying in big enterprises.

    For this instance, instead of making some people rich by paying music hosting services a p2p network could be offered. If I would me making music I would 100% just offer it by torrent and be done with hosting costs.

    Other of my favorite examples is Kagi search engine, which has used this same tactic to convince a lot of people to pay for something that is the same as a self hosted searxng instance.


  • You have to think about disposable income, after taxes, rent/housing, food and all other essential services.

    This is a leisure/personal project expense. And the disposable income for that tend to be 30% of net income at most.

    It would be more like a 2%. Which may not sound like much. But it’s same as saying you can do 50 things a year and this is one of those 50 things.

    Anyway, I still think that price tag is too much, I don’t think there would be a lot of people really willing to spend that for a service others provide for free with a bigger platform, or that you can do it by yourself cheaper if you want to go to an alternative route.

    Once again I think it fits a spot only for alternative rich people.


  • I stopped using facebook years before fediverse even existed.

    I think the facebook public is not the same as the fediverse public.

    The most developed fediverse apps are the ones that clone sites that the geeks used to roam, like twitter and reddit.

    When people develope something like this, usually is because themselves want to use it. I would assume that, like me, not many people want to use a facebook-like site.


  • I wouldn’t say it’s a bargain for the artist when there’s plenty of services that offer that for free.

    From a purely money perspective a small artist would probably lose money here while it may earn money in places like Tidal, which have much more audience.

    Let’s not lie people. It’s not a bargain. $10 a month is a lot for that service. Maybe from a “San Francisco” or other rich American city that is Pocket change, but from most of the world $10 a month is a considerable expense.

    Other thing is if you want to morally support ot because you really like that model for whatever reason.

    To be honest, I don’t much see the point. Of you are going for the complicated route (aka not using established platforms) are you are even considering self hosting, putting out your own website to sell music is easier and cheaper. And it’s actually very common for artists to have their own website. You can find static hosting for a few bucks.