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Comcast says it represents a 10 Gigabit cable internet network they are building (it doesn’t exist) so they are basically changing the meaning of the g from generation to gig to act like 10g is 5 generations better (or twice as fast)…or that they have a 10 gigabit network. Neither is accurate. It’s still just cable internet that people have to use because they have no other option.

Fuck Comcast.

I read online they are abandoning the “confusing” 10g branding but I just saw a commercial for it. They think all of their customers are morons and count on folks having no other choices in a lot of cases.

Apologies to anyone outside the United States, this is just complaining about our poor internet options and deceptive advertising by greedy corporations.

Social media seems to be laughing its ass off about this tragedy, is it because the folks at burning man are perceived as frivolous hippies or something? Everyone I’ve ever met who was a regular burning man attendee has been a solid human being with strong morals, personally and financially responsible, a career. Upstanding members of society for sure. I guess all some people know is the sensationalized drugs and sex. A person died. This is a tragedy for an event that brings positivity into the world. Kind of annoyed.

Things I like about Reelgood: track movies I want to see and what is on the services I subscribe to. Marking things I’ve seen and like or dislike. The app is fast and has no horrible ads. Available on iPhone, iPad and has an AppleTV App (tho not very useful).

Things that could improve:

Recommendations are terrible. No ability to mark movies “not interested”

Alerts when something you want to see is added to a service you subscribe to

UI could be a better

Ratings by rotten tomatoes (certified fresh?) would be nice…maybe more tracking/labeling of awards like Sundance, Oscar’s, golden globes

Better ability to sort by rating/popularity

Community ratings, discussion, etc

Maybe follow other users that share your tastes?

Thanks for any tips you can offer.

I've been loving Lemmy and mastodon and feel they are coming along as good replacements for Reddit and Twitter. Outside the fediverse, I occasionally enjoy posting dumb little video shorts and I put them on TikTok, Facebook and Insta because I have friends, family and followers on each. (TikTok, Gen-Z, my daughter...Facebook, Gen-X, my wife...Insta, millennials, my younger sister). I don't browse them heavily myself, but it helps me stay connected and it's fun when something you make goes micro-viral occasionally.

I'd love to get more into the habit of sharing on the feddiverse and someday get rid of those others altogether (pipe dream)...so today I had dumb 22 second video of a rabbit, chipmunk and birds all around my birdfeeder. From my iPhone it's a 40 MB mov file. I put it up on TikTok, Facebook and Insta very easily. Figured I'd put it on...mastodon I guess, and start that habit?

Whelp, mastodon allows videos of that sizes but failed to process it 3 times. Next idea...might as well just sign up for pixelfed and use that to put it on mastodon, then use it as an Instagram replacement... I sign up and pixelfed doesn't accept the .mov video format...and I believe there is a file size limit of 15MB as well. I don't want to have to resize and reformat every video to post.

I could use YouTube or a YouTube alternative (peertube), but I hate the fact that regular video services are trying to make short vertical videos happen on them to compete with TikTok. I hate seeing TikTok style stuff on YouTube and Facebook...it's crappy and out of place. The epitome of enshittification.

Any tips or ideas? As far as fediverse platforms, I am committed to using and growing Lemmy and mastodon and I think I need to consider a 3rd service that is better for video/photos, whether it's pixelfed, peertube or something else...but at this point I got kind of stuck when I got frustrated with pixelfed and I'm not sure what to try next. I'd prefer not to have to resize and reformat a video just to share it...every time. And I'd prefer not to join something (another one I haven't heard of) that may not be successful. pixelfed seems like it's really exploding...that's why I figured that would be good.

Advice?

On Twitter I mostly followed people I knew in real life, comedians, some novelty and parody accounts. I joined Mastadon and I really don’t see anything interesting to me looking at trending posts and what not. It seems very grown up and dry. I miss a little of the “Wild West” aspect of twitter from early 2010’s with offensive humor and cutting satire and just silliness.

Any suggestions?

I registered with some smaller instances in case of server issues and defederation (beehaw) with lemmyworld. I noticed a community ctpsd@lemmy.ml that I follow from Lemmy.world is not viewable at all on lemm.ee or midwest.social for some reason. It does not come up in search and if I manually go to it’s empty. If I go to my Lemmy.world profile and look at “posts” from lemm.ee or Midwest.social, my post to that community is not there at all. Other Lemmy.ml communities work fine on all 3 instances.

Messing around with this type of thing I’ve also noticed that communities have different numbers based on what instance you view them from…the number of posts are different. Some newer or “trending” communities have no posts at all when viewed from Lemmy.world, but they do have posts and subscribers when viewed from another instance.

Is this a federation issue, or something stupid I’m doing possibly? A setting or a glitch? I’m worried that depending on the instance I use I will miss out on posts or communities that I don’t even know about.

Thanks