because you think it helps Google (unreasonable)

I personally think this can be reasonable if you’re the type to talk all about your hardware with people. You might not like promoting Google, so you choose a different device with a different privacy OS because you would rather talk about that to people.

For me, I don’t talk about my phone much to people - so I just bought a second hand Pixel 8, put Graphene on it, and popped a sticker over the Google logo. Using a case that’s not clear does just as good of a job. I will probably replace it with a Motorola eventually when they start releasing phones with GrapheneOS on it.

That’s pretty bloody awesome!

I don’t understand. Do you not know that buying second hand means the company does not get your money? I bought a second hand Pixel 8 at the end of 2024 just to put GrapheneOS on it, and I also refuse to give Google money.

I bought my Mum a Pixel 8 also this year, and put GrapheneOS on it - also second hand.

Either way, I’m happy for you that you ended up with a private phone, I just don’t understand why so many people seem to forget that second hand is a way of not supporting companies.

Why is everyone downvoting this? I haven’t used Brave as a daily driver for 3 years since I’ve been with LibreWolf, but my impression has always been the same, that it’s far better than stock Firefox, purely based on privacy (completely ignoring any ethical reasoning for not wanting to support Brave). Chrome and Edge being worse is obvious.

Oops, forgot to link the original article. Fixed.

Okay, thanks. I guess it’s not possible at the moment then.

I know that lossy normally lessens the image quality in the compression process, but Curtail has two options:

Lossless mode: Compresses the file by removing unnecesary data that does not affect image quality; thus reducing file size. Lossy mode: Compresses the file much further by lowering the visual quality of the image; thus reducing the file size but looking a bit worse.

After using the lossless mode, I’ve personally done very thorough image comparisons to see if there was any discernible difference between the original file and the compressed file. I could not find any visual difference.

In Curtails own words on their site “It supports both lossless and lossy compression modes with an option to whether keep or not metadata of images.”

It just looks like “Loo wan tee” to me.

Edit: Actually, just read the article, and considering the name Luanti is a mix between the Finnish word “creation” and the LUA programming language; and I’m preeetty sure LUA is pronounced “loo-wah” or “lew-ah”, I think the Luanti pronunciation is more likely to be “loo-wun-tee”.

In that case, what I mean to say is that I want a program that compresses the video in a way that is not perceptible to the eye, while also preserving metadata and reducing the overall file size.

I’m not sure why “lossless” is not the right term, because that’s the term that curtail itself uses within the app. Is the term misleading? The app is designed for photos, not videos. It compresses each photo without losing any quality, and slightly decreases the overall file size without losing metadata. I want a program that can do the same thing with videos.

Done! I contributed $10 a few days ago. Hope to give some more after my next payment.

https://ladybird.org/

That makes no sense. The only hate one who believes COVID is a hoax might have is for the governments and/or pharmaceutical industry, but it is not an inherent aspect of the belief; I honestly have no idea where you got that idea from.

The point I’m trying to get across, is that you can’t simply say the platforms users are hateful, purely using only the comment section below this blog post as an example. Looking at the top 20 surface-level comments (not including replies), absolutely none of them are being hateful, and the majority are praising Odysee for their move; you’ve just specifically singled out the one single comment fifth from the top, that happened to mention COVID being a hoax, and labelled it as hate, and the whole platform as hateful, just because of your pre-concieved notion that the COVID hoax theory originally stemmed from hate.

I am defending Odysee’s community, because I’m an active Odysee user myself, and I know from experience what the community is like; I know that the community (overall) isn’t hateful. It’s only when videos get into controversial topics that things can become heated between users, but even then, it is usually just unharmful opinions and debates, and the exact same happens on YouTube every day. Comments inciting hatred or violence, which isn’t common, are removed by moderators when they are reported. I can’t stand being around toxic online communities, and Odysee overall isn’t one of them, otherwise I would have left the platform years ago. Like anywhere, including Lemmy, you choose which subcommunities to hang around in. And like YouTube, you can choose not to read the comments on a video and instead take it at face-value (I think most people do that anyway on YT). You seem to think that Odysee users are toxic, when I personally get attacked on YouTube by both trolls and angry people at least double the amount I do on Odysee, and my opinions aren’t generally considered controversial most of the time either.

Believing COVID is a hoax is hate? I went and read that comment and the guy was just upset at what appeared to him to be YouTube censoring his comments. That’s not hate.

Cool, yeah that’s fair enough. I was unsure about sharing my own channel here too, considering I’m very careful about my privacy.

Yeah, it’s referring to the memberships you can begin as a monthly donation to specific creators, not the Premium subscription that directly supports Odysee.

Cool, thanks.

There is moderation, the ability to report content and comments, and community guidelines. Odysee having a complete lack of moderation is a myth, and I have personally had content removed by moderators before by reporting it.

I’ve never cared to generate income on my own channel, so I’m not sure how all of it works. But the main way that I know of is through channel tips. There’s a ($ Support) button below every channel and content upload, which lets you directly tip the creator. You can use Patreon or anything else if you want to, but the functionality is built in. Odysee gets a 5% cut of all the tips sent to channels. There may be other ways of making money, but I’m not aware of what they might be.

Edit: Heres’s their help page about monetization: https://help.odysee.tv/category-monetization/

Awesome! What’s your channel?

They also earn money from the optional premium subscriptions, the 5% cut from channel donations, and 100% of the donations sent directly to them. The way the direct donations work is by going to a video, and just below it, clicking the “$ Support” button and making the donation either via cash or LBC. That’s an option for all channels on the platform.

Otherwise, I don’t know the ins-and-outs of how the decentralised blockchain system works, but they do not have to host all of the sites content themselves, as it is also voluntarily hosted by other users. I’m not sure how this works at the moment; it previously worked by being a user of the LBRY Desktop app, but after the LBRY company shut down, and the LBRY app went away, I’m not sure how other people host the pieces of that content anymore. They are moving away from the LBRY blockchain protocol, over to the Arweave protocol, so I imagine they will bring out an Arweave app that may replace the LBRY app which that was used previously.