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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Out of curiosity, have you actually spoken to blind people about how useful they find Braille?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Actually, the history of why women divisions arose in sports is far more nuanced than you seem to believe. The main reasons for doing so were primarily rooted in sexism. Historical records show that women were able to compete with, and win against, men in sporting events during the early middle ages.

Anyways, I see there’s no reasoning with you, so I hope you have a pleasant evening

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

There’s plenty of speculation that YouTube has never turned a profit. We have no way to know for sure, though.

TikTok is quite different since it’s shorts only. I can totally see that being a viable model, because you can more comfortably cram ads between pieces of content. That’s why YouTube is pushing shorts so heavily.

Nebula is propped up by private investment. I had a quick look and found SEC filings which indicate they have raised over $9 million dollars in private investment in the past 3 years.

Patreon has almost no video hosting compared to how much revenue they have.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I understand how you feel, and you’re not totally wrong - society is changing and shifting power away from men towards historically marginalised groups.

The hopelessness and pain that men is feeling is coming from capitalism, though. It’s corporations stealing your future.

The thing is that men held almost all of the power historically, and a small shift away from men doesn’t mean that women have extreme power now. Don’t let yourself be scammed by the rich and wealthy into fighting their battles for them.

You need to recognise your true enemy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I mean any free video streaming platform, including YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

The same is true of every free video streaming service. They are not viable stand-alone businesses. They can only ever operate at a loss. Therefore their main use is as a propagandists tool, to control and shape narratives.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago

We need to stop expecting change to come from our rulers. We need to take change into our own hands.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Israeli lebensraum, not Jewish. Conflating Judaism with Israel is anti-semitic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

You can’t vote to end the genocide. Democracy isn’t real.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

This doesn’t really make sense. Programmers are usually just paid a salary. My salary is the same regardless of how many subscribers there are. I don’t give a shit. If everyone started pirating everything it wouldn’t really impact my job. There’s plenty of dev work to do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

Free video sharing platforms are basically not viable as a business model. For a free and open internet to succeed, YouTube has to fail. At the moment, it only exists because Google subsidises it.

The ideal way for video sharing to work is for large content creators to set up their own federated video hosting websites (or pay for someone else to do it for them) and potentially offer some small amount of free capacity for those who want to upload small, not-for-profit videos

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