Fooyin is great as a FOSS and also Linux-native Foobar2k replacement if playing back locally-stored music. Also, MPD and your choice of a client for streaming from another server in your place.

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Assuming that audience isn’t bots ala Twitter or Facebook, or what the audience on YT will probably eventually turn into.

PeerTube is federated YT basically, and a megacorp isn’t controlling your instance when it’s on a physical server you own, especially if it’s a private instance where you’re the only one who uploads.

Well, that leaves anyone in a trade out of the dating pool then because most of them, eg. in the carpentry field, use hammers of some kind and in some way.

Don’t have to self-host, there are plenty of public instances one could sign up for, I picked peertube.wtf, but you have MakerTube if you’re an art or craft-focused creator, for example, or even CuddlyTube among other public instances.

Self-hosting is ideal if you have the spare hardware, but you can still post to public instances if you don’t.

The purpose is to have it so that no one can take your stuff down on a whim since you own and control the infrastructure you’re posting on assuming you’re using a physical server in your own place and not a VPS.

And hope AI don’t cannibalize your viewers anyways, which it probably will with the way it’s being pushed over there, including by Google themselves.

Meanwhile PeerTube and even Odysee doesn’t have the problem of AI cannibalizing viewership.

Also, YT’s ad revenue system is effectively an MLM, or at least adjacent to one; the only way you’ll make it in the algorithm is by getting a huge downline, or in this case getting a ton of subscribers under you who will then spread your stuff around, and the MLM comparison comes from making a whole bunch of slop to get people sucked in; MLMs typically sell wares of low quality at best to wares that are outright dangerous at worst to give off an air of legitimacy when they’re really just a pyramid scheme. YT’s algorithm operates similarly.

Meanwhile crowdfunding and even creator-driven premium platforms like Nebula pay out more than YT’s ad revenue system will.

Odysee’s better for generating traction because it has a larger userbase than PeerTube, but shouldn’t be your go-to, is what I was trying to insinuate.

Also, you can at least block the right-wing stuff on there and your decision will be respected, Google doesn’t respect the ‘don’t show me any of this’ command at all on YT, and will still show you stuff you told it not to show you anyways, by contrast.

Basically, Odysee’s good for generating buzz and trying to get your name out there without using Google to do it, but PeerTube’s better in terms of having control over your content and presence.

Or even Nebula if you work in the education/DIY or documentary niches; assuming you can get a big enough audience, you could theoretically sell premium content on Nebula to fund your free content on PeerTube or Odysee.

I won’t be surprised if there was an art/entertainment or commentary niche equivalent for Nebula somewhere, unless Floatplane is that equivalent.

Thanks!

I’ve said this before, but the kid who made the deepfake CP is getting charged for that.

Assuming most of Hollywood isn’t already Windows based given that OS still takes up 66% of the desktop market while Mac only takes up 14%.

And given Blender’s viability on the professional stage with Flow’s success, I wouldn’t be surprised if some smaller studios who weren’t knee-deep in the Autodesk and either MS or Apple ecosystems either were already Linux-based or moved over to Linux.

As for the hobbyist, they’ll just use whatever OS they’re already running generally, be that Windows, Mac, or an alternative, and I’m being vague with ‘an alternative’ so as to also count BSD or even OpenIndiana if one swings that way, in addition to Linux.

Also, the Mac Studio, assuming the M4 Max and M3 Ultra both are more powerful than the M2 Ultra, should outpace the latest, and apparently final, Mac Pro.

The fact that Cloudflare controls half the web is concerning both for unintentional crashes like this, and for something even more insidious; what if they’re coerced to cause an intentional outage should cyber war ever break out? An intentional outage for half the web in a cyber war would be devastating to put it nicely.

Apple is killing the Mac Pro.

The Mac Classic was the first Mac to sell for under $1k, and the ‘LC’ acronym stood for ‘Low-cost Color,’ that said IIRC even back then there were PC clones that were cheaper than the at-the-time cheapest Macs, and that were actually expandable to boot even if they didn’t ship with better specs out the box. Also, the Mac Classic still shipped with a 68k and 1MB RAM, maxing out at 4MB. In 1990. When the 486 had been out for a year and the 386 had been out for five years, and I’m pretty sure PCs were shipping with more than 1MB RAM by then.

Even within Apple’s own lineup at the time, the original Mac LC shipped with an '020 vs. the Classic’s 68k.

Additionally IIRC the Apple IIc was sold as a cheaper variant of the Apple II line.

Maya still has a Windows port so it’ll be fine, also, Blender proved itself viable on the professional stage with Flow.

I thought there were already some M-series iPads that gave some actual workstation laptops a run for their money though.

As I pointed out, PCs are still modular for now, and yeah, except for in Windows in which the Pro SKU technically still has enhanced capabilities over the Home SKU, specifically Group Policy is a thing albeit in cut-down form vs. the Enterprise/IoT SKUs on Pro while on Home, the only under-the-hood tweaks you can do are in the registry via regedit, the word, ‘Pro’ has lost most of its meaning.

Even for at least AMD GPUs, you’ve been able to use the Pro drivers on consumer hardware and vice-versa since Vega at the earliest if not earlier than that.

Similarly, the type of things currently going on with AI, most notably Grok being in bed with the Military, are what Terminator warns about.

-sigh- Dystopian/post-apocalyptic fiction is not supposed to be an instruction manual, guys, it’s supposed to be a warning…