This is not a new argument, but the author is a bit confused with the terms. Usually it is phrased as “social network” Vs. “social media”.

https://video.hardlimit.com/c/opensource_gaming/videos

Cloudflare tunnel error 🤦

It is a pretty apt description of what is happening though.

Even if they sell like hot cakes relative to their intended audience of Steam users, it will not make much of a difference in overall market share. Steam might be relatively big with PC gamers, but overall they are rather tiny.

While it isn’t easy for Matrix, running an quivalent XMPP server on Tor, I2P or similar is fairly well documented, and there are multiple such servers accessible both on the clearnet and Tor.

Many XMPP clients also have built in Tor proxy settings.

Bitcoin and Ethereum only have liquidity in the market because scammers use it for their pig butchering etc. scams. And all the major exchanges are complicit in that. Many Banks are scammy, yes, but not that scammy by a long shot. Sorry to burst your bubble 🤷

If 99.9% of PCs were solely made to steal your credit card info, then yes.

I have high hopes for GNU Taler in that regard, as it is in theory super easy to include in any website and makes tipping small sums very feasible.

But in reality it is bogged down by bureocractic hurdles on the banking side, and I am starting to lose a bit of hope due to perpetual delays even after some banks promised to support it as part of an EU grant via Nlnet.

Open minded to being scammed? No thanks.

@povoq@slrpnk.net mentioned the possibility of a solarpunk piefed instance in the past, but it’s yet to become something concrete.

We don’t plan to setup a separate Piefed instance, but we want to migrate our main Lemmy instance to Piefed sometimes early next year, but there are still some unknowns if the migration will be feasible or not.

https://join.piefed.social/try/ has a list. There just arn’t that many yet but https://anarchist.nexus/ is a solid choice.

Sounds more like countries where the advertisement revenue share model of Shitter made this a lucrative income opportunity.

Never missed it 🤷

Peertube already supports livestreams. And there is also Owncast, which is a bit easier to selfhost and also federates via ActivityPub.

It is already supported in Peertube and works fine.

It looks fine as in the default Piefed theme, yes. But they used to have a very nice custom theme.

Their theme broke with the update?

Probably? I have not tried it myself to be honest.

I am not sure how intercompatible the modules are. It might be that you have to chose between them.

It is a modular system that includes a module for microblogging. But it can also be turned into something else.