In theory, yes. Several of the channels that publish on PeerTube and YouTube have referral links, sponsored segments and the likes - The Linux Experiment and Gardyner Bryant are two big ones off the top of my head, as you also pointed out. There’s a support button integrated to link to Patroen/Liberapay/Ko-Fi and the likes, and during their AMA over at !opensource@lemmy.ml three months back, they mentioned having better Patreon integration on their radar at least, although not a huge priority at this point.

In practice - it comes down to the chicken and egg problem again, as well as currently a lack of discoverability. One reason creators put up with the BS on YouTube is that, even when ad monetization is basically nothing worthwhile at all for the vast majority, and the algorithm also forces them to hamstring their creative process at times, it is the one place where people are most likely to discover your videos, thanks to the algorithm being trained to keep the audience engaged in addictive binge-watching, and the way it - to its credit - can also sometimes push small, still unknown creatives into people’s feeds if the audience could be interested in the topics/video style.

Now, an addictive, obscured algorithm like that would rightfully be anathema to the principles behind PeerTube, but there have been some attempts to create better discoverability. This Firefox add-on is super basic, and it doesn’t seem to work without hiccups - but it did help me discover some stuff at least. Communities like this one here help with word-of-mouth discovery. And some creatives that are focused on the Fediverse leverage Mastodon integration to engage with their existing community there, and have those users as their main audience, which can quite seemlessly interact with videos through mastodon.

So, in theory, there is nothing that would prevent living on PeerTube alone, ad revenue from video ads is not nothing, but for many, it is not the main source of income, sometimes basically just pennies. Referral links and sponsored segments work just the same as on YT, basically. In practice, the community is still too small, so most creatives will opt for publishing on PT and YT simultaneously, if at all - very understandably so, with varying levels of taking PeerTube seriously and putting some effort (like engaging with comments on there, or checking if your YT-imports actually succeed and such). Increasing that number could help with growing an engaged community on PT, which would then increase the attractiveness of it - potentially to the point where one day, it could become more feasible (alongside other potential developments, like better integration of PT with platforms like Patreon/Liberapay/Ko-Fi).

I haven’t used Bazaar myself, but in general, frontends like this usually just do that behind the scenes. If you are comfortable/used to using another frontend/method, you probably won’t need it. It’s all about the GUI, comfort and also usually the selection of featured apps (although that could be distro-dependently handled, too). The one thing here I personally agree with being great which I personally haven’t seen like this (I’m used to Pamac, myself), is having fundraising/donation info right in the GUI for the projects.

Feel free to do so! After all, I’ve also just linked to their PT video, and this is not about “Karma”, just about spreading the content :)

Ah, good to know and thank you for looking into it! Yeah, I added you to the instances I mirror automatically, I can remove you or you can add me to trusted - whatever works better for you. I have a lot of space to spare, so I reserved a big chunk of it to mirror stuff automatically from trusted instances for better network availability.

Will restart PT later when I’m back home. Thanks again for the heads up! And already excited to watch/listen to what I missed later.

Will Moomin’s rope be in time? I don’t know, but what I do know is, that that is one hell of a throw!

Huh, that is weird, I have missed 3 episodes as it seems - they don’t show up on my instance and I wasn’t notified as a subscriber. Did a very quick check of logs in the PT admin interface, but nothing stands out on my side as a federation issue. (But I may have missed something for sure.) @ozoned@piefed.social - do you know what could be the issue? Will try to see if I find more later today, too.

I guess as a workaround I can try watching on mastodon/piefed - although I am not really using the former at the moment, and the latter is not the best for following PT yet.

I’m not giving up hope on Summer Eternal creating something that - even if the effect of DE can’t be reached again ever - could build on it in interesting ways. They could channel the outsider effect along with convictions in the team in a way, that could provide at least some magic. But I am ready to be disappointed, of course.

It’s about Clippit, which was a mascot that notoriously annoyed MS Office users in the 90s and 2000s. It did not yet collect your data the way everything does now.

BonziBuddy was a herald of the apocalypse.

Thank you for taking time and effort creating these videos and providing them on the Fediverse, will have a watch later!

As for Kdenlive messing with colour levels, never experienced that myself - but I only used it for very casual editing and also didn’t really pay attention to it. Maybe you can try asking about it on !kde@lemmy.kde.social ?

We’ll do our best!

You can still watch (and download) it here on peertube.

It’s somewhere between RPG and narrative/graphic adventure game. The highlights are the writing, and how the game includes reactivity to and options for player choice. Another huge strength is emulating a good DM for a TTRPG session - often failure for check rolls are rewarded in their own, sometimes very humorous way. They included hundreds of small things most players will never see, maybe one of the greatest games for multiple playthroughs ever.

That’s awesome, thanks for sharing! Excited to see what talks there will be.

I’ve got some torrents that I’ve been seeding for months barely breaking 0.1 - for some that are in low demand and have some dedicated seeders with better internet connections than yourself, you will have to acceppt not being able to seed them properly, especially when they become outdated.

Just do your best and aim for a good ratio above 1:1, but don’t beat yourself up if it won’t work out. 1:2 as a goal is fine, not everyone has to be a dedicated super-seeder (which would be impossble anyway).

Look, all I’m saying is, we’ve never seen you and squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de in the same room together.

But jokes aside, thank you for the detailed introduction, and thank you for doing mod work!

One interesting thing is that we don’t really kow much about her. The few things we can be pretty certain of, are (Spoilers ahead):

• We know her hedonistic escapes from a guilt complex are real, and that some forces in the MI truly want her dead - confirmed by our ESP if we do take her in. (Much to the shock of some players who had hoped to arrest her and keep her safe somehow, from the blind playthroughs I watched people play)

• We know she really has some skillset that indicates some sort of spy work, but where does it really stem from? It could be from what she tells us, but it could also be something different, maybe something worse, maybe something more mundane.

• We do know she has seemingly always had the problem of being fetishised by men around her, as we witness with at least Tidtus and the Deserter (EDIT: And of course Harry), and that she both inadvertantly and consciously used that to her advantage (mostly: trying to survive) if possible, while also not having a choice about it. EDIT: Her relationship with the mercenary is really interesting in that regard, she probably witnessed unwillingly bringing out the worst in men around her over and over, turning them into monsters. Then there is a monster, and in her mind, she turned him into a better version of himself, reducing hist monster-ness. Not that that is healthy, but it is a great characterisation by the writers for sure.

But no matter what, I, personally don’t think prison (which results in her death) is something she deserves. There is a part within me, that would love to somehow keep her “safe” while also putting her into a situation where she has to reveal what is really in her past - but that part of me, I realise, is exactly the fetishising effect she has on het men in action, even as a fictional character (combined with my often aggressive curiosity).

So, my vote is: Let her go. She might not be a great person overall, and has definitely some shit in her past, whatever it really is, but she deserves to live. If she really does deserve prison, then only, as she herself put it, in a new world, after La Retour, which would stop hunting her as prey, both literally and in the way people who are attracted to her force their fantasies on her.

I may be misremembering, so take this as potential bullshit, but I seem to recall there was a study (or just a survey?) that seemed to indicate, that onlineness for men generally correlated with less mysogyny than the overall population - with the exception of those explicitly in the “manosphere” bubble, who then spike on the far end of the spectrum.

Thinking back of how I remember groups of boys and men (which I was a part of) talking with each other offline before widespread internet access (or even now), that kind of made sense to me. I remember being often rather alone with my opinions and being told stuff like: “Just accept that sexism is funny.” Especially thinking back to pre-internet teenage me, I had a lot of weird assumptions internalized that online exchanges, seeing actual, unfiltered opinions of women mostly, helped correct.

This paper seems to suggest so, but also mentions “Previous empirical work on this topic, which shows a diverse range of estimated effects […]” - so it seems like other factors will play a role. (Disclaimer: I read only the abstract)

EDIT: Another paper seems to back up those finding.

Ah, that is a bit of a UI design issue, I agree that should be added - the way it currently works with embedded PeerTube videos is by clicking on the instance name in the bottom right:

(Screenshot is from PieFed UI, but the overall mechanism should be the same on lemmy-ui or other lemmy interfaces.)