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Eh I understand the long term apathy and eventual giving up.

They cant keep winning votes by just not being republicans. They will always not be republicans and eventually people are going to want more out of them.

The idea behind it per the video where they introduced it is that its a means of creators to take ownership of their own content. The idea being that if you follow creator X on youtube you arent actually following creator x you're following them on youtube. If something happens or youtube removes a video for whatever reason of they have to leave the platform then you lose access to their content.

If you're on this app you follow creator x on whatever platform they are on. So in theory it's not just an all in one app but a way to solve the youtube monopoly and make for an easy transition.

In concept I think it sounds really cool, but whether it actually is able to deliver on it's goals remains to be seen.

Its funny because tiktock has a landscape mode now and full controls. The thing theyre trying to copy has more rich controls but they stay on track with painfully limited media player. I use an extension on browser that just opens them in a normal player.

Hopefully this will curb that weird conspiracy theory right wing pipeline that the algorithm pushes people into, but I fear given how mature youtube is that the damage may have already been done.

Also I always love seeing them push short form content, when youtube used to have LOTs of shortform content but they adjusted the algorithm like 10 years ago to punish it. It screwed over a lot of the animators and comedy troupes that used to make up a lot of the site back then and ushered in the era of the video essay(as well as youtubers slowing down their speech and repeating themselves in order to get to minute 10).

The shorts dont bother me as much but the media player does. Like theres no playback controls, its portrait only, an it doesnt even let you fullscreen if youre on browser.

To be fair depends on what you listen to on spotify. If you listen to major mainstream names, well yeah. Millionaires. If youre listening to smaller bands then the compensation model of spotify is shit and you can probably give them more direct compensation by going to a concert, buying some merch, and maybe directly buying music from them.

Weird I wonder if its a hardware thing caue I've had gestures on kde with wayland for years now and on x I could use touchegg to set them up

Proper HDR support and AMD to put in better HDMI 2.1 support on the open drivers.

KDE has multifinger gestures on wayland but present windows is 4 fingers down and present workspaces 4 fingers up. 3 finger gestures are to slide around workspaces. For whatever reason there is no way to customize this.

This is something I hear but honestly I never fully left and it's about the same as it was before the leave. Maybe /r/all has gone downhill(as hard as that is to believe), but the default subs and /r/all were already pretty bad more than 10 years ago when I started curating my subs a bit more. If you subscribed wisely the only real change is that certain subs being dark for a while lead to other subs bubbling to the surface.

The niche community subs are still trucking along and the just off mainstream alternatives are still about where they were before the migration.

I know we want to believe that we were the heart and soul of the site, but lets be real here:

A)There are millions of people on that site. We arent special even among that sample size and not enough people left.

B)There just isnt enough engagement or comments on lemmy to prove this. I think in general a lot of the articles and content here is nice, it mirrors my rss reader more. But generally there isnt as much content or engagement. Some threads get more or less but a lot of my front page on lemmy has single digit comments.

I think there is potential to keep growing and being better, but that potential hasnt been reached yet, and Beehaw leaving will crush things since beehaw was not only a major hub, but the Be(e) nice philosophy did help temper some discussion from going towards typical online message board Nerd BS.

The issue is the way that news is consumed these days. You always used to have a catchy newspaper headline with a title to get you to buy it (extra extra read all about it insert catchy alliteration here) . People dont consume news. They dont read articles. They receive headlines and then immediately engage on some other website that profits off sharing this content.

Clickbate for all the woes exists because it works and people do click it. Or are more likely to click and share than if it was a dull informative headline. It's the same as on youtube. As long as the actual meat of the article is fine and the headline isnt too much of a BS article it doesnt bother me too much but of course there are limits to that.

I wonder if perhaps it's because it's a purely Disney product and theyre a little apprehensive of making an older skewing disney cartoon.

Gargoyles was made to go head to head with batman tas and they both did a great job of going right to the end of the line of what a tv-y7 could get away with(and probably couldnt get away with today). That said like Batman they both were designed to target kids and for all the brilliance there were episodes that skewed a little younger, and little touches like how shows of that era had to dance around words like "kill".

In addition to the usual stigmas surrounding animation I wonder if another factor in this is that it's a pure Disney branded product. While they have plenty of edgier stuff in their back catalog that should let people know their cartoons arent just for small children, the rep is there and they may not be ready to put out a tv-14 or even tv-pg cartoon that targets young adults and teens. It was find when its some licensed anime on d+, or if it's star wars or marvel, but this is a pure Disney badge.

Of course theres also the usual explanation of cost. Good animation costs a lot of money to produce and while lord knows disney has the cash it might be cheaper for them to just shoot this series in front of the giant tv. I feel like a show with characters like the gargoyales would be counter productive to be live action since they regularly fly, and would need expensive suits or full cgi anyway to work, but I suspect they do the math and no an effects guy is cheaper than a team of animators.