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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

Not who you're asking, but I wouldn't have wanted to be born cis

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Me. Before I transitioned, and in my early days of transition, sure, I'd have made that choice if it were available to me. But now, years in? Fuck no. I don't want to be cis.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

What is going on with your moral compass that you believe that sometimes, funding bigots doesn't make you a shitty person, yet also lets you believe that disagreeing with you on that issue topic is enough to qualify someone as a shitty person?

If you can make an exception for people funding Rowling, you can make space for them disagreeing with you, without pretending that they're the problem

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It sounds like a similar situation I had learning Spanish. In english, I'd say "It's hot". In Spanish, that's "Hace calor", which translated literally means "makes heat". And it was strange to me because I wanted to know what was meant to be making this heat

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

this is why lemmy will never beat corporate owned services

Which famously, never shut down and take their content with them :P

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 month ago

You create the community on another instance. You update the lemm.ee version with a sticky post and sidebar edit to let people know the new location. Do that before lemm.ee closes down, and even people that find the lemm.ee version of the group after the instance is gone will still be able to find your new location

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Multiple tattoos! I used to have multiple piercings as well, but they all ultimately rejected, so now I have none

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 month ago

Well, the managed communities will pin posts and update their descriptions before the shut down happens, and those details will federate to every instance with users that subscribe to the communities.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

Do you need to be an activist? Absolutely not. You have a chance to live on your own terms in a world that made that really hard. You don't owe it anything.

That being said... Visibility makes a huge difference, and it's super important that some vulnerable folk are visible and loud. But remember, they're the ones putting themselves on the line, so that in the future, it won't be as bad for those that follow, and that needs to be respected.

For me, being trans was always just a medical issue

This isn't helpful. Whether you see it that way or not, being trans is not "just a medical issue". The fact that you were able to live your life as if it were, gives you a position of relative privilege that most trans people don't share. The truth is, if you get publicly outed one day, it won't just be a medical issue for you either. So whilst you don't have to be an activist, you shouldn't be downplaying the reality that other trans folk do have to face, and honestly, you shouldn't be pretending to yourself that you are immune to them either.

Live your life on your own terms, and do so without guilt. But even if it's just in the privacy of your own thoughts, make sure you build your visible peers up rather than mentally separating yourself from them

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Most people don't start making videos to make money. In the early Tube days there was no money.

Absolutely. I'm one of them. But there's a lot of peertube instances that serve that need.

The OP was talking about creating a moderated instance, with high production quality requirements for members, with the possibility of charging for extra upload capacity etc. And that narrows the field down to people who either make their living from producing video content, or want to make their living from producing video content. That's the group I was talking about

PeerTube only has 1 less avenue for monetization than YT, among dozens.

Absolutely, but the one its missing is a major source of income for most professionals and semi professionals who make their living from video content. And folk who rely on YouTube advertising aren't just going to be able to drop YouTube for Peertube whilst keeping a consistent income stream. Which means the OP (and the OP specifically, not peertube in general) will need to make space for allowing those users to exist in a way that encourages them to move to Peertube, without cutting off the income they currently make from centralised corporate platforms.

My partner and I run a peertube instance out of our own pockets, and we make videos and host other folk making videos, without caring about their quality or experience. For us, it's about giving folk voices. But I wasn't talking about peertube in general, or folk like myself, I was addressing the OPs situation

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 month ago

I started using linux full time about a year ago. I started with Arch, but moved to Cachy really quickly when I discovered it. All of the advantages of Arch, but repos optimised for modern hardware, and a whole heap of useful pre-configured tools, like Wine/Proton, fish, snapper etc. Arch is a bare bones, pick and configure your own setup rolling release distro. Cachy is a pre-optimised, rolling release distro with lots of useful stuff right out of the box.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 month ago (9 children)

At the moment, its challenging for creators to generate income from Peertube. In theory, the avenue they have is through patreons and the like, but in practice, peertube doesn't yet have the volume of users to make that work. And as a result, it's going to be hard to use any kind of "premium/paid" tier service, simply because there won't be many takers.

In my mind, right now, if you're trying to attract creators, you're going to need to reduce as many barriers as you can for them to move over. That may mean co-existing accounts on bigtech platforms and on peertube, and in terms of helping with your running costs, voluntary donations are the best way of doing it for now, until peertube gets a larger volume of users.

Either way, we spun up our own peertube instance a few weeks ago too, so welcome to the vidiverse :)

 
 

Nicolás Mihanovich, an abandoned cruise ship sits moored on the bank of Rio Iguazú, Puerto Iguazú, Argentina, at the apex of the borders between Argentina, Paraguay and Brasil.

It was originally designed as a luxury ferry between Argentina and Uruguay, but plans were made to turn it in to a floating Casino. The plans stalled, and now the ship sits, largely abandoned

Image description: An abandoned cruise ship sits moored on the bank of Rio Iguazú. The riverbank is steep, and covered with greenery. The ship itself is 6 stories in height and white in colour, but discoloured by water stains and rust

 
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Meanjin [OC] (live.staticflickr.com)
 

Image description: A long exposure of the Brisbane River of an evening, just before Riverfire. The photo is taken from near the base of the Kangaroo Point side of the Captain Cook bridge, showing the curve of the river, with Brisbane City on the left bank, and the Kangaroo Point cliffs visible on the right bank.

 
 

For those of you who don't know, the Blahaj Zone admin team runs a matrix space for gender diverse folk. Similar to lemmy, it's designed with a few "official" channels, but is otherwise a community curated space, with channels run by our members. You don't have to be a blahaj zone user to join.

If you're already a matrix user, you can head straight to our application room https://matrix.to/#/#gv-apply:chat.blahaj.zone, or by searching for #gv-apply:chat.blahaj.zone from within your matrix client.

If you're new to matrix, you can find some more details and an instruction video on how to get up and running here https://chat.blahaj.zone/c/genderverse/

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Mine! [OC] (live.staticflickr.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15145486

A Silver Gull (Larus novaehollandiae) catches a chip from mid air at South Bank, Brisbane, Australia, August 2024

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/12960382 (https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/12960382)

The expression on that second birds face is meme worthy!

Image description: Two little black cormorants sitting on rocks in a creek, surrounded by water with reflecting dappled greenery from the vegetation on the banks of the creek. The closest cormorant has its beak wide open, and the smaller cormorant in the background has a surprised look on its face

#birds #bird #AustralianBirds #DailyBird #brisbane #meanjin

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/12715244 (https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/12715244)

Image description: A great egret stands on a sand bank in a creek. A person with a fishing net is behind them in the creek

 

Image description: A person casting a fishing net in to a creek. They are wading in the water, and the net is mid cast. The person is wearing wet weather gear and has their back to the photographer

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/12275595 (https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/12275595)

Image description: 2 young fairywrens sit atop a metal post, fluffed up against the chill air

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/12097391

Taken with our new OM-1 MkII and M.Zuiko 100-400mm. I LOVE this camera!

Image description: Three Little Black Cormorants, sitting on rocks in a shallow brook. Two of the birds are holding their wings outstretched

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