Die4Ever

Looks like they're going to use IP Board for the new site :(

https://forum.watmm.com/?app=core&module=system&controller=content&do=find&content_class=forums_Topic&content_id=105431&content_commentid=3003854

I can see why people love it, but the humor wasn't quite good enough to hook me (yet), everything else seems really good though

yes Youtube has maybe a billion user accounts with 0 videos, it's the main way to use the platform

they seem to only give accounts to creators

Yea this is a bit silly. It seems like they manually approve user accounts because they need to be careful with the uploads using up their storage. But a way better solution would be to approve users more liberally, and user accounts would be created without a channel so they cannot upload anything, and creating channels needs to be approved. That way people can freely make user accounts for browsing/following, and the admins can still restrict spam channels from being created and uploading videos.

yea Youtube lets you use the same name, but the extra organization that Peertube gives seems pretty cool too

YouTube is a bit different because you can use your username as your channel name, and then you can have multiple "brands" that aren't linked to your username. People can't find those from your main account.

All of the biggest instances could take turns running ads for themselves lol

I don't think defed has been that bad, and I think over time we'll get more features to avoid having to defed (aside from illegal content or spam).

Like users being able to block users and/or communities by instance, or admins being able to set default block lists for new users, or users being able to easily share block lists.

what's the best peertube instance to upload gaming videos to? I might upload some and see how it goes

edit: I think I'm gonna go with spectra, but omg this is annoying:

Channel identifier cannot be the same as your account name. You can click on the first step to update your account name.

I get it, they're separate actors, but still annoying. Can people find my channel by either name? Edit2: yes they can, all the user's channels are listed on the user profile, which maybe makes it worth the signup annoyance

I use All to read news, my subscribed feed is all more positive stuff so I don't doomscroll.

I do the same. I'm not going to move instances over this, but it is an annoyance. Hopefully this hiding is temporary, or the issues I filed on Lemmy's GitHub will improve the situation. Otherwise I guess I'll subscribe and unsubscribe every day to check it? Lol

Oops I said 24 hours in the title but it should've been 12 hours! I edited the title, but now the post shows when I edited it instead of when I posted it... About 9.5 hours from this comment

The default Lemmy-UI (website), IDK about others