Fucking AI has destroyed the internet. And for what? All to grift a bunch of investors.

It does but that’s beside the point. We’re discussing a hypothetical future.

This is just 12 different kinds of incorrect.

Think of how much diak space YouTube is using

Disk space will be the least of your concerns when running a service like YT.

If everyone can’t upload videos it we’ll never replace YouTube.

1. Everyone CAN upload videos to their own instance.
2. It doesn’t have to replace YouTube. It can exist alongside it as a competitor.

There is already a plug-in that supports that, along with Stripe integration.

100 subscriber is NBD. Let’s talk when you have thousands or even millions of active users. At some point you’re going to hit a wall if you were to hypothetically scale up. Costs of service would need to be covered somehow.

The sustainability argument stems from technological constraints. YouTube as a company has no problem sustaining millions of dollars in server infrastructure to serve media. Most self-hosters wouldn’t be able to do that without significant income.

I don’t agree with this perspective but also don’t know enough about server infrastructure or video streaming to argue against it.

If you have your own domain how are they going to trace that to anyone else?

volunteer-run services are much less likely to use your email address for nefarious purposes

Less likely, sure. Still very possible? Yes. Not a risk I’m interested in taking.

save the tinfoil hats for BigTech™

You’re free to do what you want with your instance but you’re extremely naive if you think selling/leaking contact info is “tinfoil hat” territory.

That defeats the purpose.

What does that have to do with anything? You think Reddit not banning them is acknowledgement?

Does “Reddit” acknowledge the existence of Facebook, Twitter or Digg?

It’s a fundraising platform that also publishes all financial information publicly. At least, that’s my impression.

I stand corrected.

Unfortunately I can almost never find these accounts from mastodon.

Yes, which is exactly why it’s particularly devastating when they receive animosity and hate in exchange.

Most of these questions are just way too vague to ever answer properly.

I have a Ghost blog for my business. It’ll be in the fedi as soon as they make that available for self-hosters. For now, it’s just crossposting via MastoFeed. I’ve also contacted them about posting them to Lemmy, as it seems like a much more fitting platform.

Don’t really want to get too deep into it but its a Facebook community and its relevant to my business and I use the community to promote my business. It’s become a large source of my business. It’s the only reason I can’t delete my Facebook profile.

Well I only moderate 1 community and there is a compensation component to it.

But for others, I’m sure they just enjoy having a community. Some of them might also just not care what the naysayers say.

As a moderator myself, it’s a pretty thankless job. It’s a bit like being a politician in that no matter what you do, there are lots of people that are going to hate you.