You’re right, they’re the worst.

Yeah, it transcodes AV1 just fine. Half my stuff is in AV1 and I’ve never had an issue watching it on any device.

Damn my bad, that changes everything! My sincere apologies!

Time to switch to Jellyfin.

I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic or if you truly don’t understand. But let me know if you’re serious and I can fully explain why everyone else here finds it funny. There’s no shame in not understanding.

I enjoyed it too and I wish it took up more of my screen space. We’re in the lead now!

Don’t you go dragging Linux into this /s

Rich people*

Unfortunately modrinth just doesn’t have the feature set and ease of use that curseforge does for creating, automating, and managing content. I don’t like it either, but until someone steps up and dethrones them as THE way to get content, they are the best platform, at least functionally.

The result of a mod creator uploading to modrinth and not curseforge is simply that their mod will not be included in all of the popular modpacks hosted on curseforge, which is a death sentence for download count and income.

They really do! It’s nice to read something that’s clearly hand crafted and high quality, especially the big news roundups that you do, as opposed to the usual SEO slop most news sites have. It’s a treat every time a new one comes out.

On lemmy, I just browse “all” then filter out anything I don’t want instead of the opposite. I don’t use Mastodon much, or any twitter-style platform. As for videos I still use YouTube, just through the FreeTube application on desktop.

Edit: one thing I do follow is the gaming news posts by this person, who puts a whole lot of effort into them: @[email protected]

Honestly that’s kind of what lemmy is, in a roundabout way. I think you are right, but actually getting people to engage with that would be difficult. Today, word of mouth with younger people mostly revolves around individual things inside centralized platforms like a TikTok meme or something. I think in addition to independent sources of content, there needs to be a cultural change in how everyone accesses content. That’s the hard part.

Yes you said it better than I could have. Not only the perverse incentive, but also just the way ads have annihilated the usability of the internet for the average user. I know some sites can’t exist without ads, but the web now is an unusable mess of for-profit click bait SEO slop and the average non-profit oriented enthusiast with a website for something has a harder time than ever existing because of it.

I am not smart enough to know what to change, but I know something has to change. Short of a complete upheaval of the current web, the ones profiting off the current model will do everything in their power to make sure nothing changes.

This is why I’m conflicted. AI destroying ad revenue is that upheaval that could be fast and powerful enough to disrupt the status quo, but at what cost?

Yes, but that’s besides the point.

On one hand, I don’t generate ad revenue for anyone in the first place and would love to see the ad-supported web model collapse. On the other hand, I don’t like that AI is destroying things. I’m conflicted.

Work, school (not anymore, but while I was in school), local events where I meet people, friends, etc.

I’m an android user and I semi-frequently meet iPhone users who show anything between surprise and downright disdain towards me because I don’t have the right color of bubble.

It’s never the other way around.

Everyone uses smartphones. But to supplement the other good answers here, at some level of wealth, so much of your activities, interests and purchases are extended to secretaries, planners, asset managers, and otherwise individuals about whom you can claim “I’ve got a guy for that”, that tracking you as an individual becomes less effective.

Of course, nobody is immune just due to wealth and billionaires who use social media are tracked just like anyone else.

Please don’t, I haven’t played all the video games yet.

I can’t press the record button without it crashing and it fails to see half of my audio inputs, so I’d say not great.