Wow I'm just so surprised. I was there when they were bought out and they kept saying over and over again it's a separate company. And I always said "for now". What a shocker.
Management kept telling us based on the acquisition IBM wasn't allowed to fully consume Red Hat. Again which I said " for now".
Oh so surprised ... Fuck corporations. I sit have friends at Red Hat and it just keeps getting worse there from what I hear. Quantity is more important than quality.
If you're a customer the only way to get a resolution now is demand a phone call as they're no longer able to deny that and work on the case. They're just a call center and not real support.
YUP! We talked about Cory Doctorow's Deep Crack! Well it's not his, he's just borrowing the deep crack. :-D I'm a child. It's this and it's SUPER cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker
Cory Doctorow is fantastic. I spoke with him on Fireside Fedi and he's just brilliant and has seen some amazing tech. We even talked about his deep crack. That and lots of other interviews with Fedi folks for anyone interested: https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/huevh4L6r1yMYXqcQMi8gR
Actually going to be talking with Robert W. Gehl tomorrow on Fireside Fedi! I just found out about him, a few weeks ago, and he's written extensively on social media. I've unfortunately not been able to acquire any of his books to prepare, but they seem to all be incredibly interestingly titled.
I have a friend that also brought up discoverability as an issue, so she stayed on Twitch. Twitch also has a massive discoverability problem and they have numerous tools, but there's so much noise it's impossible to rise above it.
With Owncast discoverability is organic atm. It's a tiny, but growing pond. Like anything else anymore, if you want to be discovered you have to do the leg work.
But it's definitely NOT Twitch and you won't get famous or make tons of money.
What you can do though is control your platform, stream what you want, etc.
I've spoken to numerous folks that flat out tell me it can't work. With THOUSANDS of people you'd probably hit bandwidth limitations, but there's S3 buckets and CDNs. Whether they'll let you push livestreams to those for the long term is yet to be seen.
I'm very biases though as I love Owncast, I love controlling MY platform, and I love Fedi. Also I run the unofficial owncast community.
Fediverse has quite alot of indie musicians. Check out LABR http://labr.online/ or the indie beat https://theindiebeat.fm/ and try some new music and support creatives directly.
US has done it before. Stem cell research has been held back in the US even before it could PROVE that it was effective. Here, mRNA PROVED it worked and we're undoing it. This is worse than ignorance. It's down right maliciously negligent. Once again all because of their beliefs that science is wrong.
It's a spoontula, cousin of the spork. It is created when a spoon and a spatula love each other enough to transcend reality. Just don't ever let two spoontulas stay in one area as they're very territorial and will attack each other. That's how the spoon drawer gets all messed up.
The DDoS came from ... INSIDE THE HOUSE!