Judging by the article its purpose is to improve power availability during peak load times.

Someone needs to make a browser extension that hides any article with “experts say” in the title

To be clear I wouldn’t give them my money even if they did offer all the same features.

Yeah but Newpipe works.

it just freeloads

I watch a number of creators that YT has demonetized so I’m not worried about it.

YT can clearly see what people want in these apps. They simply need to provide the exact same functionality and set a price. They won’t though because they want control and data as well.

Newpipe

Youtube Premium offers a fraction of the benefits of something like Newpipe.

I agree. I refuse to watch ads or to pay for an experience that offers less than a fraction of what Newpipe offers. When Newpipe is no longer viable I’ll repurpose that time to chipping away at my reading list.

Why do people use these crap apps when podcasting is the only media which, from it’s inception, is entirely liberated? You can get a FLOSS app and access pretty much everything. Anything you can’t access doesn’t deserve your attention.

Bingo

:laughs in Newpipe:

They aren’t. Vaultwarden is the selfhosted version.

This is the stupid simple and stable solution. Nextcloud was always giving me grief but Radicale is rock solid

They will have to rip Bitwarden (soon Vaultwarden) from my cold dead hands.

I replaced my bullet journal with logseq starting this year and it’s great. I sync it to all my devices with syncthing which is another great tool.

Agreed. “AI” will add some interesting augmentations but when it comes down to it they can just tell a bald-faced lie and most people will believe it because it’s on the news.

The problem is defederation. It basically breaks the entire concept of the “fediverse” and will prevent critical mass. Each instance becomes a little fiefdom. There should instead be the ablility to create and share extremely configurable filters (ala ad block lists). People can say and do whatever whilst simultaneously choosing what they do and don’t want to see at the individual level. The benefit is everyone sees what they want while also not losing access to any communities simply due to an egotripping instance provider. Kind of like an urbit model that isn’t so esoteric and weird.