More people should try out Tubesync. It’s a tool you can host yourself that essentially uses yt-dl as a backend and lets you subscribe to channels, and it’ll download videos as they come out. Gets you away from the ads and you can archive content you like forever.

https://github.com/meeb/tubesync

Teddit.net is also a good option, as it just mirrors reddit but doesn’t give them any money.

I think I’d rather have an optional membership to support the instance with perks or something. Not reddit gold though. Lemmy silver?

This doesn’t have to do with the topic at hand, but it’s just so cool being able to directly reference sites and ways to download on Lemmy, rather than dancing around the topic on Reddit.

Archive.is is useful, for sure. Another option that I have used for a long time is BypassPaywalls. It works on Firefox, as well as Chromium based browsers. https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

Hopefully as Google is now indexing lemmy.world, more people will see it while searching and come hang out.

They had some quality communites. Ah well, we can make them here with blackjack and hookers.

It’ll be interesting to hear. However, I really hope someone doesn’t buy the rights to the Beatles and start generating new albums when Paul and Ringo are gone. It’ll be soulless.

A lot of these people volunteered their spare time to manage communities for no pay. Wondering how far downhill a lot of these subs will go with Spez putting himself in charge of everything.

I also hope nobody is going to be editing their comment and saying “wow, this blew up.”

I think pre-ordering lets you play 5 days early, iirc.

It’ll be funny watching Elon freak out over it, but no I don’t want to participate in Zucks data farm.