You don't have opposable thumbs, you ain't pulling shit

This clearly goes against the intention of the GPL.

That I agree with. Maybe this will cause the FSF to create a 4th version.

I use Fedora, but I'm very uneasy with the fact that they are married to Red Hat. If things go south for Fedora, I hope a community driven fork can survive if not Fedora itself.

It's free software, so you should be free to do with the code whatever you want as long as you don't restrict the freedom of others.

Serious concern and asshole move? Yes. Gpl violation? Not sure. You could argue you are not restricted to do whatever you want with the code you receive with a subscription. But if you share the code, they don't want you as a customer anymore and won't give you new code. I don't know if the GPL allows that.

Certainly in retrospect. Back then they defended the decision by saying they wanted to shift their resources to centos stream, and that would be fair enough. But now it's clear that wasn't their motivation at all. They wanted to kill the free RHEL fork in the hope to attract more customers, as a lot of people already suspected.

I agree. Amazon is infamous for that strategy as well. They either buy competitors or make a loss until the competitor is bankrupt.

Yeah that's what I thought. That means the server load and cost must be significantly higher than what 20GB implies. It still would probably not come close to YouTube though, but it does make the donation model seem more realistic.

The other thing to consider is that the technology just doesn’t exist for there to be a viable ‘federated’ YouTube.

Well, Peertube exists. But I agree it is very hard to get close to the amount of videos YouTube hosts without it becoming too expensive. But that is even true for companies like Google, which is why they are pushing these changes. It seems like people need to accept that a video platform must either show ads, make you subscribe, or receive substantial donations.

I almost can't believe Wikipedia is only 20GB btw. Does that include all the pictures on there?

Youtube most likely never made any money. Hosting these vast amounts of video is expensive. Google stopped telling us how much they money youtube made them lose. You would think they would start bragging when they could make a profit off of it.

That being said, this still sucks of course.

If he wants he can probably even have subs unprivated that he doesn't moderate. But that would just increase the backlash.

Thanks

Crazy, that should be an uncontroversial statement. It's sad that people on the left have radicalized too and are sometimes going too far, giving the right a larger attack surface. Of course regular algorithm driven social media stimulate radicalization because rage drives up engagement.

What caused the Digg exodus?

Even just using plasma I stead of gnome feels a little weird now, like it’s too windows-y lol

Out of the box it is, but KDE is very customizable, much more than Windows. You can make it behave like almost any other desktop environment.

Something like the multireddit function then, maybe? Custom feeds where you can add any communities that you want (doesn’t even have to be the same topic).

I don’t think it makes sense to combine the feeds at a federation level (which I think is what you’re talking about, but correct me if I’m wrong).

No I was thinking about a client side solution. I don't even know what multireddit is but it sounds like that is what I meant. Though since @[email protected] mentioned it, syncing of communities between instances could also be a cool idea.> @[email protected]

I didn't even think about that, but that also seems like a really cool idea. They are not mutually exclusive, so hopefully we will see both in the future.

That will make you lose your post and comment history though.

I'm not a programmer and have very limited Github experience, but I'll have a look.