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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Hmm. So they've sneakily changed their ToS:

By posting your Contributions to any part of the Services or making Contributions accessible to the Services by linking your account from the Services to any of your social networking accounts, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to us an unrestricted, unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide right, and license to host, use, copy, reproduce, disclose, sell, resell, publish, broadcast, retitle, archive, store, cache, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, transmit, excerpt (in whole or in part), and distribute such Contributions (including, without limitation, your image and voice) for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you want to give money to Pixelfed - here's the official avenues from their website.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I see, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Haven't both of these launched already? Seems like this should be a gofundme rather than a Kickstarter

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Kickstarter works for multiple phases or versions of a project.

The only real difference with GoFundMe, is that Kickstarter will return backer money if the campaign doesn't get funded, while GoFundMe has an option to fail and still get paid.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (13 children)

We'd rather not give money to a cultural appropriator who has been asked by black people multiple times to stop it, but he doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry I am not aware of the incident, do you mind elaborate? Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Dngwehs - dingua - lingua - linguaticum - language (fr) - langage - language

Prihos - pro-prijos - ad-proprio - approprio - appropriatio - appropriation

Histi - wesana - isti - ist - is

Bhel - blno - bulo - boli - bula - bole - bull

Skeyd - skitiz - skiti - scite - schit - shit

Since I'm of Proto-Indo-European descent, y'all need to stop that right now! 🙄

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (12 children)

"Used AAVE as slang" is gonna get ya cancelled now? Lol, this is absurd, if those are the reasons, using them you can cancel 80% of young folk, y'all are crazy

This is kinda sad tho, that while racism and real bigots exists, y'all waste your time cancelling people for using "y'all"

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Anyone simply hanging around people who speak a certain way is in danger of "cultural appropriation" I guess, since most people will subconsciously adopt the way the people around them speak.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm gen Z, pretty much all Zoomers I chat with use slang (and part of it comes from AAVE, this is just how slang develops, it often comes from marginalized groups), I can't believe some people actually think this is enough to cancel someone for

If a person would write it somewhere other than Fedi, people would probably just assume that you're joking or making fun of a term cultural appropriation, but oh well

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Honestly just sounds like a white guy who grew up around a lot of black people and just wanted to fit in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

the problem here is that he never grew up

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Okay, sorry, but why do you think black people should have the monopoly on speaking AAVE? Am I not allowed to speak British English, because I don't live in the UK? Pardon my ignorance, I don't have contact to many black Americans, but this seems ridiculous to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't have contact to many black Americans...

Then take our fucking word for it. We live this. Listen to us.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Hey, thank you for stepping in and helping, sorry you had to.

Hope you're doing okay.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm a little lost. Pixelfed is already a decentralized photosharing service, and they already run Pixelfed.social. So what is Loops? An app?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Loops is a TikTok clone in the same way pixelfed is an Instagram clone. It's an app and a backend server setup with activitypub. You can sign up now to the developer's instance if you're interested. After signup you get access to the beta app. It'll probably hit the app store in a few weeks/months depending on how fast the developer can get it done.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Isn't that going to be ruinously expensive to host an instance for? Video is expensive in terms of storage and bandwidth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

You can mitigate that issue to some extent by making the videos short. As long as the user count remains relatively small, the storage and bandwidth costs aren’t going to spiral out of control. Eventually you’ll have so many millions of active users that you’ll also need to figure out a way to get a steady source of revenue. I wonder how Loops will tackle that issues. Some mastodon instances already have a small yearly fee, so I guess video instances could do that as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I thought the same thing initially but modern video codecs, plus the developer's plan to limit the videos to 30 seconds actually seem feasible. Large Lemmy and mastodon servers are also pricy to run but the community finds a way, I think it'll be the same for Loops.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Short-form videos, similar to tik tok but with (hopefully) less brain rot

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But I need a foss way to rot my brain

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