• 1 Post
  • 11 Comments
Joined 5 months ago
cake
Cake day: December 2nd, 2024

help-circle







  • I’m not a Republican, but I am a good bit more right than a lot of the fediverse tends to be (consider myself centrist, also refuse to align with a party on principle). I think they are doing a terrible job of diplomacy right now. I do think it is an intentional thing (on account of that’s kind of who trump is) but I still think this much stuff against our allies is really stupid. I don’t want to say too much as I didn’t vote this year (forgot until too late) and by my standards that means I don’t get to complain, but I can say I disagree with their methods overall, even though I may not disagree with everything they are trying to do.



  • I’ve been using it for a year or two now, and here are my notes on it.

    • There are a lot of pretty good creators on there (real engineering, hacksmith, berm peak, and real life lore, for example.) .

    • Though Nebula has a lot of good creators, the vast majority of youtubers are not on it, so you will really only be switching for the ones that are.

    • It has pretty much every feature (user-facing, anyway) that youtube does except for likes/dislikes, comments, and live streaming.

    • It is paid with no free-with-ads option, but it is cheap (currently $36 a year) and provides a comparable experience.

    • It handles podcasts well, but there aren’t that many good ones (imo) and a lot of them seem discontinued.

    • It has really good discoverability, but it does not match content to the user (i.e., no personalized home page).

    • It’s homepage is made up of various categories like a normal streaming service, including continue watching.

    • It is not a pay-creator-directly kind of service. you pay nebula and they give 50% of the subscription fees to creators based on view count. It is more like a streaming service version of youtube, in a good way.

    Overall, I really like it. It does a lot of stuff right and I feel that my money was well-spent. I would like for there to be more of the people I watch on it (Dankpods, for example). Nebula’s pay scheme seems like a fair deal to me given the type of platform it is.