Meh … I wish there was a middle ground. Non-corporate, yet effective. Unfortunately, the Fediverse is only the first.

Discovery algorithms can be great, if applied with care. And I really think ActivityPub is not very effective at showing interesting stuff, while from a user perspective it’s super intransparent. Personally I’d prefer a centralized user experience to the Fediverse fragmentation any day … I guess I’m really only here because I’m fed up with corporate bullshit.

I feel like people mistake YouTube for a video hosting solution.

But that’s not the point.

• YouTube a huge archive of content that accumulated over the past 17 years.
• YouTube is a content suggestion machine. Discoverability is a key aspect.
• YouTube sets an incentive by allowing people to monetize their content.
• …

So, if the only thing you’re looking for is a video hosting solution, then, yes, PeerTube might be an alternative. In the same way uploading videos to your own webspace would be, and Vimeo also still exists.

But for all the other stuff, YT is, unfortunately, unmatched, and probably will be for a while …

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For whatever reason, many of the editors mentioned here never worked for me … like OpenShot, ShotCut or PiTiVi were really unstable the last time I tried (might be a distro or DE thing). Also I found it hard to cut precisely when they worked. Lightworks, Da Vinci, Cinelerra, I had a hard time getting them to run. Maybe that changed in the meantime.

I ultimately stuck with Kdenlive, which is stable enough and allows for reasonably precise cutting.

Yes, and not just that … like, making sure to keep the cursor away from the images all the time because hovering over an image immediately plays some trailer including audio.

Generally, playing media elements without explicit triggers by the user is annoying, but this is the worst.

Like, who thought this was a good idea?

Hmm good point!

That’s not mutually exclusive with the author’s argument, though.

if a computer vendor offers multiple distributions to choose from, the problem of choice remains.

And if the vendor only offers one option, which one should it be? And how can a user verify that it’s a “good” option?

It’s already being pushed to the Chromium repo, or so it seems:

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8f5bd