No disgusting UI trying to make you watch other shite that is clearly a failure.

No scrolling threw pages down to just get down to the “continue watching” section.

No advert between each episode that isn’t an “ad” screaming the same scene for their next original failure.

No shite algorithm recommending me the next show I’m clearly not interested in

I don’t know much about Friendica, does it have a website/pwa that I can try?

Or does it need a party to create a site like Lemmy?

It’s sad that I was hoping for Lemmy to be a place to have a better vetting of comments by votes but its frankly worse than Reddit.

Its hive mind is sadly becoming less diverse and just up votes “LOL THIS THING BAD” with no sourcing or anything.

I’ve found myself sadly going back to Reddit more because the comments are just of higher quality and diversity of opinions.

If you donate to the devs, of course they still have to pay taxes. That’s still income.

Okay? And physical stores don’t? This isn’t news and doesn’t address your claim whatsoever? It doesn’t compare spotify vs indi labels.

Discoverability, publishing, advertising, gigs etc.

Wohh there, that’s a lot of claims with 0 proof.

Can yo source any of that?

TWO ADD PROFILES! See the hypocrisy?

You’re completely right. People suck steams dick are ridiculously hypocritical and blond.

I was mocked for defending Epic trying to compete withs steam. They’re doing great work for Devs and gamers. But sadly, blind gamers (who claim they hate monopolys) aren’t self aware enough to see the trees through the forest.

Let me frame this another way.

Google is monopolistic and kills any other competitor from competing. Thus preventing consumer choice.

Google is already one of the biggest companies in the world. I’ve never given them a penny in my 2 decades of service use. Yet the line goes up.

They exist because of us the consumer.

They also don’t pay, let alone treat, their creators fairly. Although they are 99% the reason they exist.

Yet Google wants more because line must go up.

There are other services I pay for such as nebula, float plane, patron specifics. But not all creators can sustain that. And I doubt it I pay for YouTube that will change. Because spoiler alert. YouTube don’t pay well. It’s sponsors and merch that keep creators alive.

Kind of a shit response to such a well written reply. Most of us would use this guide likely don’t already have any of this set up. Imagine spending so long setting this all up when there’s a good reply that can further improve on stuff before it’s in place.

Good for you knowing this before everyone else who knew! Really impressive! You’re so cool!

Now stop assuming everyone has read news that you have.

Absolutely spot on reply.

Brand recognition and memory triggers is what big brand ads are about.

Cleanex, Hoover, Coke, most cologne/perfume ads, Old Spice…

What stock price are looking at? It’s up 50% this year.

And before you quote that it’s lower than its peak during COVID, so is the majority of not all big tech firms.

They already show ads though. Just for their own content after every episode.

It’s made me stop using their service because it’s annoying enough as it is.

Also those make me despise the advertised show and refuse to watch it already.

That’s fine. Totally agree, but this (AI actors/voices etc) would just replace the celebrities with just a smaller, richer, more controlling group of capitalist fucks.

Enough? Main stream companies already accept it and it’s easily a transferable skill from unreal, unity etc to Godot.

The software isn’t new, like nocode and others, the industry quickly adapts… It’s not a fantasy world… .

Imagine thinking it’s okay for a corporation has the right to dictate how you look and treat your body.

While yes they do move from one to another. Are you aware how stupidly inefficient car engines are and the amount of fuel used to transport the petrol/diesel to each and every gas station?

That saving of gas on each stage of removing those third party for cars.

The fact you’re saying you’re still getting useful results on Google means you haven’t used Google for the past year to me.

You mean exist to ensure the underpaid actually get the legal minimum wage and to stop exploitive rich people from exploiting poor people?