Ngl that damn streak took over my life at one point, I was over 1000 days and climbing. Decided one day to just...let it go on purpose. To no longer be caged by the tyranny of the owl.

Highly recommend it, the sense of freedom is unreal.

Ngl I would wear the hell out of that.

Given how many people I've forced at nag-point to read Children of Time over the years, this is quite a relief. Good guy Tchaikovsky!

The answer is yes you absolutely should

There is definitely the concept of monetised (ie ad-viewing) vs unmonetised views, here's a random day example from mine:

Unfortunately I can't see a way to filter to just unmonetised views, to take a look at the traffic sources. I did have a quick look through the traffic sources in general though and can't see any of the popular frontends listed in external, other YT, or anywhere else. So if those views are counted (which it seems like they are from the experiment in top comment) I expect they probably end up in one of the "unknown" buckets. Whether that means it really is unknown or just that YT don't want to be drawing attention to these services by name, who knows.

The trick is to figure out what you want your holidays to look like, and then just do that.

We've got a weird tradition of going to the beach every Christmas Eve, wandering along the freezing cold pier, getting cheesy chips, then heading home where my husband pours himself a glass of something luxurious and watches Zulu while I generally get in a spot of knitting or gaming or something.

This year, his mam is trying to organise a big family party on Christmas Eve. Whole family will be there...except us. We've got our tradition and we like it. No stress.

This took me a couple seconds but I'm happy to report that once it clicked it got an out loud "oh my god" from me irl 🤦‍♀️

Well, the one person I know who uses it says it's because he likes having a recommendation algorithm.

People have different priorities and like different things 🤷‍♀️

This is a cool idea and I'll be submitting some songs as soon as I'm back on my laptop.

But in the meantime, since this thread is full of people who apparently appreciate both internet radio and the Fediverse, you should check out https://radiofreefedi.net as well! Music from actual fellow Fedizens, it's kind of great.

To scupper something is to ruin it, prevent it, etc.

"We wanted to have a BBQ, but the rain's scuppered that!"

Never thought about it before. Now it looks weird written down 😄

What does "saving" a song even mean? I'm old and confused

Some more niche than others but basically...making stuff. Cross stitch, yarn crafts, sewing, needle felting, dicemaking, 3d printing, very occasional cosplay, I'm about to try my first macrame kit and a friend is planning for us to learn punch needle together.

There's something just so satisfying about making real stuff you can use, or wear, or wash yourself with or whatever (I also briefly got into soapmaking).

If you want to chat about basically any craft (or just lurk and look at pretty projects, that's ok too), I've been keeping a megalist of relevant communities and magazines here https://lemm.ee/post/224890. And if anyone reading this runs a related one that should be on the list please DM me to be added!