I would so much like to love peertube, but I have yet to find any instance that hosts the trash reevant to my interests. Mostly they either are filled with reuploads from YouTube, or are full of radicalized conspiracy theories (which I encounter very rarely on any other form of fediverse).

And then there is the “dumploads”, which makes the instances seem like they only have one active contributor, as they dump like 60 videos right after another, resulting the frontpages to have just one note content. This, however, could be gixed by otion to group conecutive uploads as “[latest video] and [n] other videos from [user]”, which would help to find more diverse content, as well as discourage dumping.

Then again, that is only my opinion, and if PeerTube is fine for others, who am I to complain. It just doesn’t seem to be for me :/

I personally find it rather infuriating that swapping those is made so difficult, and to this day don’t know who has more usecase for media keys and varied power buttons over function keys.

And the worst thing is, if the upper row defaults as mefia keys, and toggling Fn to be function keys by default, you also toggle numpad to the right side of the keyboard. Don’t get me wrong, I like numpad, but I quite don’t like losing half of my keyboard, because keyboard manufacturers don’t know what keys should be behind the Fn.

There is also “Owncast”, but it seems to suffer from the same issue that peertube does; there is no integrated revenue system for the streamer, so there is little reason to put effort in to the quality, as well as it being fairly unknown, so even if you set up donos etc. the audience isn’t there.

The discoverability don’t help, since there isn’t really s good way to filter out all the “24/7 radio” -streams, so even if you actively follow the frontpage, or a category, you have to skim trough them manually. Also, there is no proper language filter (at least if you don’t have an account), and it seems it’s more popular with non-english speaking streamers.

Where doed WPS office source it’s ads? I mean, if you run it in a (more or less) sandbox (well, you might want to have access to the files you’re editing), and without access to internet, how does the ad interface behave?

I guess someone atr the cable, or something.

I tought hiding read posts was a feature of Lemmy itself. To be fair, I swapped to Connect from Jerboa after I suggested quality of life update UI, and tge response was rather hostile in my opinion. I mention that because in Connect, hiding posts and comments is bit too easy, as I tend to do that mostly by missclicks.

That said, I’d imagine implementing a feature to hide post shouldn’t be too hard of a task to program in, I’d imagine.

To fair, I think the only way to executevthat would be to implement an image recognition algorithm, as I don’t see lemmings marking arachnids as a tag on their posts even as arachnophobia is one of the most common phobias out there (to be fair, I think Mastodon has stronger culture for tagging trigger warnings).

That said, if you have SLIGHT arachnophobia, I’d almost recommed exposure thereaphy with a professional psychiatrist, as if you have some tolerance, it’s easier to work on than full on panic without ant tolerance.

I thing you might be on a verge of summoning a dyslexic cat with your postscripts.

I’m saddened that I could not find that “It’s a pentagram” -scene from the “Angels and demons” -movie. I hadn’t really taken note of the fediverse -logo before this.

I want to like peertube, but the discoverability is terrible, and last I checked, it was pushing mostly cinspiracy theories. And every time I try to see around, it’s just impossible to find an instance that would host interesting videos. Also, I find hopping around instances feels awkward.

Also, it seems to consist of “video dumps”, resulting the instances having the “new” videos being hundreds of videos posted by just one user. It’s just… not there for me, eben though I love the idea :/

Teams does not have bugs, it has features.

Well, that might partly be the result of Blenderfoundation every once in a blue m8on decide that “now is a good time to completely overhaul the interface”. Blender 2.6, I think when they started to put effort in UI, but after that the UI alone has been overhauled 3 to 4 times, I believe. And people who have lived trough all those UI overhauls (let alone introducing, and scrapping renderes that need to be worked differently each) have jist accepted to adapt “from the olden times”, and never bother to update the tutprials, sine they’ll be obsolete the next time Blender UI is overhauled (for better or worse).

If I’m not mistaken, the preference was to be able to subscribe to the community, as you see it on your feed, as you resonate with the content posted alongside the core implication of the community. Going to another website to search said instance just to subscribe,is much MORE work, than 3 clicks.

Well, I wouldn’t call it pessimistic, just cultural. I’m more referring to the dating culture, which I feel is upheld by the people who are versed in going on dates, aka dating. Sure, some dating experiences yield long term relationships, but mostly the culture around dating seems to be focused on short term compatibility. Fact of the matter is, that you don’t need to date. Dating is not a necessity for a long term relationship, and many who are in long term relationships will tell you that they’ve never dated. That doesn’t mean they haven’t been out for a fancy meal, of had a nice stroll at the park, it just means they got to know each other by other means. For the dating aspect, though, it’s great for some people, for their purposes, but unless you meet in some formal place, it’s not needed to get to know each other.

As for dating apps I have a very pessimistic viewpoint on. Firstly, the ratio of men to women is skewed towards lonely men looking for women being a massive majority (enby in this calculation is quite literally nonexistent), leaving many men only matching with scam-bots, and the women who get matches, usually also get a ton of unwanted attention on those matches. And hookups? Well, they’re more profitable for dating services, as they come back to use the service again. Same cannot be said about someone who actually finds a long term partner, as after that, they’re done with the service, so it’s far more profitable to keep the lonely people hooked on paying the subscription with just a right amount of hope to be the carrot for them to pay a little more. Not only that, but if you’ve used a dating app, how long did you take to decide on whether you were interested or not, on a potential match? 1 second? Less? Well, that only means you have to make the impression in that 1 second. It’s an advertisement for you, in a space filled with advertisements “for the same product from a different supplier”, how will you stand out positively in that 1 second? All you can be is superficial, to get people to even read your bio.

On the other hand, I remember Kurt Cobain saying once that he know much more talented bands that haven’t even been glanced at. While I feel he expressed his impostor syndrome with that comment, the fact of the case is that Nirvana had larger exposure than these bands. They were lucky enough to be noticed by the crowd that liked what they did, in large enough scale that they became popular, but I’d imagine for every 1 person that liked their stuff, even in their native scene, there were 2-4 who didn’t. What mattered was the exposure. Same goes for meeting people: The more people who see you for who you are, the more likely you are to meet someone who likes who you are, even if majority of your interactions would be just fleeting moments. The important will stick. That’s also one of the things I don’t recommend dating, because you want the ones who stick to not be sticking because you happened to be more cordial and representative than you usually are, as to keep that adhesion, you need to sustain it, while if you be as quirky as you are in an environment you feel at home, people in that environment will stick you you because of who you are comfortable being. And trust me, people love quirks. Quirks make us human.

The bottom line basically is that if you go for a jog every morning at 7am, you will start saying hi, to other people who go for a jog 7am every morning. And if you happen to see each other in the grocery store afterwards, you at least have 2 common interest to talk about: jogging at 7am and buying groceries. Who knows, maybe even more, but at least that is what you know. All you need to to is being exposed to people.

Well, the bigger question should be “do you need to date?”. Sure, as ace, you might not be aromantic, but to be fair, I feel the thing you might want to do is to “let ot happen if it happens”, rather than building up a stress from needing to find someone to date, as mostly the people seem to date in order to find a compatible match for sexual relief, rather than a deep relationship. And judging by the community, I guess that is not your aim.

None the less, if you feel your fear of social interactions is indering YOU in life, then that might require active work. One solution being drama classes, or as they call it in my native language “expression skill” classes. Also, you might do well to remember that people who are in to extreme sports put loads and loads of money to feel fear, and you could easily get the same experience by just socialising with people, so instead if letting fear hold you back, learn to enjoy it (that’s what I did).

And for finding meaningful relationships, nothing is more effective than expressing your passions; if you’re in to pottery for example, let it show, and other people interested about the subject are more likely to initiate converstations with you. Eventually statistics dictate that you will find people you like to be around with. As dreadfull as it sounds, you just got toput yourself out there.

Anything beyond that advice, I’d say people would need to know you more personally, as there is no set pattern of behaviour that would provide 100% sure results.