Everyone going mad and many suggesting “if you have it use Safari instead!” when Apple implemented essentially this same thing quite some time ago in Safari 🤔

That said intentions are important. I have little faith that Big G’s goal is anything other than self servin.

While I don’t disagree, YouTube won’t care. Currently folk like you and I who evade their ads are freeloading. We get all the content and YouTube gets nothing in return. Having those who block ads abandon watching doesn’t lose YouTube anything, and maybe saves them a little bandwidth bill I guess?

I want I like Kbin, and in time I think I will, but the UX is a little too unfinished right now. I’ll keep checking in on it and I’m excited to see two things that conceivably offer a similar experience to Reddit gaining traction. Big-up the fediverse!

If A goes down or if I lose interest in it, I’ll need to re-establish somewhere else and resubscribe everything

Correct, as of now, but the point is that you can resub elsewhere. This is entirely impossible on centralised private platforms like Reddit.

It’s something of a manual process for Lemmy right now, you’d need to set up on another server and manually add your communities but the point is you can still “move home” and still interact with the same communities and people. If you don’t like having your stuff on Reddit, on the other hand, your options are put up with it or no longer be able to be part of that community.

So if you join a fediverse server of any flavour and the admins reveal themselves to have view incompatible with your own, or the server goes to shit, or it just has to shut down due to lack of funds or whatever you don’t get locked out of the places you have been hanging out in.

Your ID doesn’t need to be tied to any given server. You can move around and change your “home” server at will. Or if preferred you could stand up your own server for your usage, hold your identify on there, and still engage with the rest of Lemmy / fediverse.

It’s less a design mistake and more a technical constraint. A users identify exists as, at a minimum, a database entry. That database needs to live somewhere that the various fediverse servers can talk to. But you have complete freedom in where that database entry is, and can change your mind later.

So it already doesn’t matter if you’re on beehaw, lemmy or some random mastodon or kbin server - they all federate with each other (to varying degrees but that’s a slightly different conversation)

I’m pretty uneasy about the association, but the attitude of Beehaw is the antithesis of it so I guess it balances out…?

I did play with Kbin first but the interface felt kinda broken to me, buttons not reacting and the like…

We had a Google speaker thing. Got rid of it because it was crap. All we could reliably use it for was asking it to play a radio station or play Spotify, but frankly it even got that wrong enough that grabbing my phone and connecting to the Bluetooth speaker was easier.

Even privacy invading problems aside they’re just a little bit rubbish.

Thank you for all that! I’ve given Jellyfin a go and So Far so good… does what I need and seems a little snapper than Plex. I think this will do me, and I’m not needing remote access or to share with anyone so hopefully no worries there heh 😁

There’s apparently a plug-in for Jellyfin to do the subtitles download thing… haven’t tried it though

How would you say Jellyfin compares to Plex? Just today installed Plex server so definitely early enough in the process to hop to a difference media server 😁

it’s a disservice to people who do use Reddit as a resource for work or otherwise

While true, between this and the Twitter fallout I’m hoping more people are seeing the folly of making dependencies of centralised services that they do not own and have zero sway over management decisions of.

There were many people pleading with folk to stay on Twitter because of the communities they had built or the activist work they had been achieving… but that was all built on a house of cards.

Now is the time to do the work to shift away from depending on platforms that don’t care about their users real needs & embrace a better way of being!

I appreciate I’m likely preaching to the choir here 😂