RedStrider

great blogpost!

isn't this what ipfs is?

this reads like a yo mama joke

discord forums are terrible though. it's hardly an upgrade from a threads only channel

I'd like to move to PeerTube, but I mostly just post stupid memes, and game clips on my YouTube. And as generic as that is I don't really know what instance to go with. Most instances seem to either focus on tech, or education. And that's good to have but I want a more general instance from a uploader pov.

This whole thing weirdly parallels Atari SA

Both iconic names that shut down, had their trademark taken by an unrelated company, and now do crypto related things.

I feel like I'd be totally fine with ads that can be controlled user end. Like, what if there was a little switch by the video you're watching to enable ad breaks, directly supporting the creator and the instance. (As long as they're not baked into the stream so instances can't force them to be always on.)

A pretty big flaw of downvotes is they're often not used as a "this is incorrect" or "this doesn't fit with the post" button, but as a "I don't like you" button.

if threads does federate(i’ll believe it when i see it) im glad i’ll have a way to interact with irls who don’t know what a mastodon is without having to make an account on fb’s stuff.

if they ever do anything fishy, and they will. i’ll move instances.

if you replace the www.reddit part of the link with farside.link/libreddit it will send you to a random frontend instance.

this means no ads, no js, no trackers, and probably none of this.

to do this you'll need a browser extension. try this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ (couldn't find this one for chrome but you can choose another)

if you used the extension i gave you you can import below as a plaintext in the settings.

{
    "redirects": [
        {
            "description": "",
            "exampleUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/example",
            "exampleResult": "https://farside.link/libreddit/r/example",
            "error": null,
            "includePattern": "https://www.reddit.com*",
            "excludePattern": "",
            "patternDesc": "",
            "redirectUrl": "https://farside.link/libreddit$1",
            "patternType": "W",
            "processMatches": "noProcessing",
            "disabled": false,
            "grouped": false,
            "appliesTo": [
                "main_frame",
                "sub_frame"
            ]
        },
        {
            "description": "",
            "exampleUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/r/example",
            "exampleResult": "https://farside.link/libreddit/r/example",
            "error": null,
            "includePattern": "https://old.reddit.com*",
            "excludePattern": "",
            "patternDesc": "",
            "redirectUrl": "https://farside.link/libreddit$1",
            "patternType": "W",
            "processMatches": "noProcessing",
            "disabled": false,
            "grouped": false,
            "appliesTo": [
                "main_frame",
                "sub_frame"
            ]
        }
    ]
}