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It can be done.

It will not be cheap.

Ah nice! I’m visiting family in northern MD. Been looking at houses but the market is tough.

What part, if you don’t mind?

The CEO was the pilot.

For what it’s worth, I’m part of many of the private trackers around and I can’t find a thing while searching releases. I don’t see any alternative version like this that’s documented anywhere, either.

My guess is it’s a copy that someone removed the music track from, and purposely made look terrible so old-school DMCA systems wouldn’t catch it on YouTube, Vimeo, or other similar site back in the early days of those respective companies.

When I get more time, I’ll browse a few forums I’m in and let you know what I find if anything. My best guess, though, is this wasn’t some special cut but rather some finagling done to an original cut to avoid a quick takedown. Similar to those full movies on YouTube that show an entire movie in a small box, etc.

Honestly, a lot of us are our own worst enemy when it comes to trying to bring users to this platform. We over-explain it, we want them to be excited about the de-centralized aspect of it. We extol all the virtues of the Fediverse that could bring social media into a new era of humanity.

And that completely shuts down the other person’s brain. Their eyes glaze over. They don’t have any concept of this whole thing, and the data dump is just too much. Even explaining it “like email” will get them confused.

The best thing we can do is, and I know people will hate this, but just GET THEM SOMEWHERE on the Fediverse and slowly introduce them to the idea of subscribing to communities. I’ve been introducing my wife to the Fediverse, and she’s been super excited about it, but even she is far more receptive to macro-concepts than your average person. Even still, I pointed her to Beehaw and slowly she’s understood that communities exist here but more specific communities exist elsewhere, once she found out how to search for them, it makes the concept much easier.

I know people will hate the idea of a “starter instance” but it might honestly be the way to go for your average person. Just get them SOMEWHERE and using it. I know for a fact the first time I saw Reddit (as a heavy forum user), I felt overwhelmed at just so many CHOICES of subreddits. That was a loooong time ago, but no doubt that feeling is even worse with communities existing in a Federated way.

It's absolutely, 100% bullshit. They want to make more money if a dev is willing to pay for it, but in reality they want 100% of the users on their own app to monetize them, sell their data, etc.

Fuck em', I've been extremely happy learning more about the Fediverse every day.

That’s where I am too :(

Where did you move to? Wife and I have been looking to move out of the state for awhile now.

It's so sad that there's 30 million Texans yet the 2022 election only saw 8 million total votes... then again there's insane voter suppression in the entire state. So, Abbott winning by less than 1 million votes is kind of interesting.

I got banned because I called healthcare, daycare, education, and paternity leave "pro-life" measures.

Granted, I didn't belong there, but I tried to regularly converse in good faith... which they never really deserved anyway.