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New Communities
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A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
Rules
The rules for behavior are a straight carry over of Mastodon.World's rules. You can click the link but we've reposted them here in brief, as a guideline. We will continue to use the Mastodon.World rules as the master list. Over all, be nice to each other and remember this isn't a community built around debate. For the rules about formatting your posts, scroll down to number 2.
1. Follow the rules of Mastodon.world, which can be found here.
A. Provide an inclusive and supportive environment. This means if it isn't rulebreaking and we can't be supportive to them then we probably shouldn't engage.
B. No illegal content.
C. Use content warnings where appropriate. This means mark your submissions NSFW if need be.
D. No uncivil behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: Name Calling; Bullying; Trolling; Disruptive Commenting; or Personal Criticisms.
E. No Harrassment. As an example in relation to Transgender people this includes, deadnaming, misgendering, and promotion of conversion therapy. Similarly Misogyny, Misandry, and Racism are also banned here.
2. Include a community title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.
Formatting
Please include this following format in your post:
[link text](/c/community@instance.com)
This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't
You should also include either:
or instance.com/c/community
FAQ:
Q: Why do I get a 404?
A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.
Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?
A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn't get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn't actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.
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Advertisement made YT a whoring fest where content does not matter and is only used to bait people into clicking your video so that the creators get money. That's the primary purpose of YT nowadays, and it fucking sucks. I'm not gonna support that shit.
My brother in Christ, being watched is the goal of any content creator, that's unrelated to advertisements. Now Youtube ads are paid (lets simplify a bit) blindly once you click the video, it's a metric, you see those if you want access to the video.
If the content of the video has the guy saying "thanks xyz for sponsoring this raid shadow legends" that's a contract between the guy doing the video and the sponsor, following metrics agreed between themselves, it has no ties with "the purpose of youtube" simply because... it's not youtube.
Will there be people doing cheap content to get "easy" sponsor money? Sure but if the content suck you won't watch it. It's a loss just like if the motetization was following any other driver (as long as the driver is... watching the thing rather than not).
It's literally hosted and watched on YT my guy. Without YT the video would not exist, without YT the video would not be watched, without YT the video would not even get created, and without YT it would not give the creator any way to monetize it - be it through YT ads itself or through external third party sponsoring, which is ultimately completely irrelevant to your counter argument. In the end the videos get made with the purpose of making money off of them, not to provide a potentially interesting video to be shared with others - that's how YT started.
I won't, thousands or even millions of others do though, because the average user is about as brain dead as the content nowadays on YT.
You have a problem with profits, mate, not with ads.
I'm not disagreeing with you there, but also, I like the things I like to exist without waiting for the revolution.
I have a problem with content made for the purpose to profit. And no, I'm completely allergic to ads, so I very much have a problem with ads as a whole too. They're just two correlating issues.