Improve People AND Tech? @freeschool@qoto.org

Grayjay.app is basically an aggregator app for video platforms!

The reason for this app and post goes around YouTube kicking people off (for ages now but maybe increasingly more public as backlash and videos about it) for 0 reason and at best just a general email sent "according to our terms and conditions" etc if you're lucky and almost never any specifics what you did.
Anyway I think they reserve right without reasons, which isn't great when you lost your channel and videos!!

So this post is why Google YouTube it's my favourite avatar at the moment!

And putting my teachers hat on today 🎓 as #FreeSchool 👨‍🏫 then I bring you as the next generation teachers, a big answer to the problem about commercial platforms is when it come sto getting kick-off the site unexpectedly off a platform (right now everyone is likely getting kicked off or subject to the random opn YouTube - especially if videos are "too good" in some way or they just basically don't show your comments or video, demote it / shadow ban it etc...).

If you follow Louis Rossman (fighttorepair.org) you'll know what I mean.

So I recommend you check some of his videos using a YouTube filter, like specifically this video and link below about:

Louis Rossman's video:

"Youtube's Legal Team sent me a letter!":

https://invidious.lunar.icu/watch?v=7ZSPf7YnGfE&t=04m00s

(notes below are from 4mins)
A list of YouTube problems as below

█ Banned and deleted without notice / willy nilly

█ Not fair enforcement across all of YouTube

█ They don't tell you the rules that you broke, just you're gone sometimes

█ A lot of content is allowed over others that even become more popular and seemingly allowed to break the rules!

█ Comments are deleted or never show up even from authors commenting saying nothing bad... on their own video!
(comments without curses, no links inside, nothing just comments doesn't work on YouTube or is hit and miss)

█ YouTube AI maybe deletes illogically. Lots of AI type new stuff maybe not fully tested / trying to save money on hiring emplyees...

Overall, it seems the better or real you are the more likely of you getting cancelled!

So this is a solution from YouTube kicking people off silently or without reason:

Grayjay.app so people can "Follow Creators, Not Platforms."

Grayjay.app enables you to create and watch video content in your own terms, fully retaining ownership and having control over what you watch. Your content on your terms.

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SIDE NOTE / DIFFERENT TOPIC
1. The Graduation Cap used in this post is the 🎓 emoji which is known strangely as a "mortar board"!
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"Free" has about 10+ meanings just to give a bit of quick scope and more deeper dive below...

"Free" has almost too many meanings possible, so makes it less useful / too general as a multi-used word and increases chances of misinterpretation with it's broadness and commonality.

One meaning of "free" may include freedom but that is also ambiguous since humans on some level are bound or tied to many things in life so it's hard to know which is inferred.
Saying "Free Software" help but could also mean Free Price more than "Liberty to do as you wish with the software".

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SMALL TANGENT - RESUMES AFTER
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CAN WE REALLY BE MORE FREE IF YOU AND I WANTED?
In many ways humans are never truly free but this is just for those that might argue free or liberty doesn't exist but it certainly does since you or I individually or groups of people can limit or diminish freedoms / liberty ourselves physically or through software with conditional forces.

For example, it could be Mankind's endevour to make Freedom a priority rather than Mass Profits or Prostituting life for money. the focus could be to give / love , but it's more sell / extract.

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RESUMING (AFTER TANGENT)...
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Saying "Free Software" helps but still can be ambiguous or depend on the context and education of the reader... so again relying on chance quite a bit...

Saying "Libre" has the added benefit of:
1 - sounding and said in foreign way and thus being more signifiant in the sentence
- and as uncommon word becomes more likely questioned and less assumed to what it, especially if unaware. (With "free" you can easily assume you know and assign it a meaning incorrectly to what someone says, without the nuance of liberty as the end goal. But saying Libre you can't get away with that)

Libre makes it sound like Libertie in French (English is a mix of French, German and many others!) so makes sense also for those that learned French (100% a mandatory 2nd language in all English secondary / high schools for at least 2 years)

"Free software is a matter of liberty, not price."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software#cite_ref-free-sw_22-1

#Libre vs #Free #Terminology
Mixed #Languages #English #French #German etc !

Credit:
Pic 1 - LibreWolf (Browser)
Pic 2 - LibrePlanet (Video content etc)
Pic 3 - Chip picture from @libreleah

Example list :

searchmysite.net

The searchmysite.net search engine is a niche search, focussing on the "indieweb" or "small web" or "digital gardens", i.e. non-commercial content, primarily personal and independent websites.

wiby.me

Wiby is a search engine for older style pages, lightweight and based on a subject of interest. Building a web more reminiscent of the early internet.

gibiru.com

Uncensored private search engine. They exist to provide access to information outside of big tech's censorship bubble and do so privately.

infotiger.com

Independent, privacy respecting search engine. Building their own index, sitting at around 300 million english websites indexed.

yep.com

New search engine built from scratch. Claims to offer an unbiased, private search experience that rewards and compensates the makers behind the content...

stract.com

Independent and open search. You can apply different optics to narrow down the types of page you're looking for.

mwmbl.org

Mwmbl is a free search engine with a focus on freedom, user experience, and community. Results are provided by their own index and a touch of curation.

plumb.one

Plumb is a new search engine that claims it doesn't monitor or track you while you search. Supported by ads, but is not an ad platform that supports search.

clew.se - by @amin

A super new search engine that is trying to be different than the rest. Starting off with a super small index with plans to grow.

mojeek.com

Mojeek is a growing independent search engine which does not track you.

Source: https://flamedfury.com/links/#search / user @flamed

Hey! Put me on notification bell just for a few days and see if you like my stuff if not already and remember you can use me and time that I have !

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Let me know how I can consume time for you - I have time for working together. Call me crazy but the Capitalism isn't working... shoot me a message...

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The hive mind 🐝 / collective consciousness might work

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- natural forces (hunger but is also man-made pressure as food is not provided to people unconditionally as basic basis for life and added to that you are forced to dance for your dinner more unnecessarily and in ways you don't like at all for big profits and big boats bought for other people).

- man-made forces (again cornered over generations but more-direct sky-high rent increases yearly, more debt-traps, spending for #war or developing it (using 'general' taxes which you think goes to hospitals / teachers / police until doctors go on strike (again - all 3 at the same time about last year ~ nearly 1 year exactly)

SO WHY MENTION THIS?
More obvious I hope the unloved positions that people in power hold (even parents sometimes), which makes the bottoms of all pyramids and pawns need to re-look who they look for love and and peace from the top who clearly are all-in for profit...

And not just say "I don't have time..." or...
"I am defeated"
"I can't admit how much they have cheated me"
"I can't face telling others the truth"
etc...

Not easy but the enshitification is too deep to avoid... clean the shit daily somehow at least and at least look for a way out / prepare without spending for rent etc all the time... share with people your house... couch surfing for summer is easier for example for others... and now free exact same system as original CouchSurfing but now Couchers!

http://couchers.org/

Hopefully #Fediverse #Couch #Surfing would be it's own thing in the future! You can try me :)

"Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice."

#DietrichBonhoeffer #Quote

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer

#Philosopher #Philosophy #Psychology

#stupidity vs. #evil
I've come across explaining to #Christians and #Christianity who seem apathtic, acting 'innocent' / naive and even irresponsible Christians - admitting to near nothing... *though I admit* the options aren't great and near non-existent BUT trying is the main thing even by Christians and so least they / we all could agree and name Banks / a Debt-based system as "not good" rather than keep silent or speak no evil 🙊 just because there is no alternative fist which doesn't make logical sense when solving problem in life! 🤷

IT NEEDS WORK "GODDAMMIT!" TO ACHIEVE CHANGE

(meaning we are probably part of any God so in the swearing that logic in any religion means can't wait for answers always and individuals should do the do towards things- and then maybe God (others) can help....)

"If we want to consider limiting access to guns on American soil lets start with our own national guard and police, not our citizens."

- @freemo about "May 4th Massacre" (aka Kent State shootings)

SourceL https://qoto.org/@freemo/106177725016376248

(Continued excerpt:)

"The last thing I want to see is an unarmed populace needing to deal with a well-armed police and military force. Lets focus on securing the rights of the citizen, not giving them up"

Music about Fediverse! > by Martin Hamilton on Fediverse! > @m

Rage Against The Machine Learning = ALBUM ☑️ VERY INTERESTING

https://martinh.bandcamp.com/album/rage-against-the-machine-learning-deluxe-edition

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♥ FAVOURITE TRACKS:

♫ Track #01 ♫ Markov Unchained = https://martinh.bandcamp.com/track/markov-unchained

♫ Track #11 ♫ A Billionaire's Lament = https://martinh.bandcamp.com/track/a-billionaires-lament

► Lyrics included (next to song!!)
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#FediMusic #FediTalent #SolarPunk #ADHD #Hacker #Fediverse #Audio #Music #Lyrics

(Not a great idea by the way to set messages to send/show in email but be honest and I can test this with you.

ADMINS recommend default set as generic message "You have new message", not plain text as default setting.

#Poll for #Fediverse #Messages to #Email

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Previous Poll = 5 people
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1 20% I get email + shows the message text
0 0% I get email + no show of message text
4 80% No Fediverse messages at all sent to my email
0 0% Other / click to see answers so far

Some Facts / Mentions from the Wachowski "Brothers" now Sisters !

Transgender themes in The Matrix films...

█ Years after the release of The Matrix, both of the Wachowskis came out as transgender women.

The red pill has been compared with red estrogen pills.

█ Morpheus's description of the Matrix creating a sense that something is fundamentally wrong, "like a splinter in your mind", has been compared to gender dysphoria.

█ In the original script, Switch was a woman in the Matrix and a man in the real world, but this idea was removed.

█ In a 2016 GLAAD Media Awards speech, Lilly Wachowski said:

"There's a critical eye being cast back on Lana and I's (sic) work through the lens of our transness. This is a cool thing because it's an excellent reminder that art is never static."

█ In 2020, Lilly said The Matrix was intended as an allegory for gender transition, but that "the corporate world wasn't ready".

She said it was "all about the desire for transformation but it was all coming from a closeted point of view", but that she did not know "how present my transness was in the background of my brain" when the Wachowskis were writing it.

█ In an interview with Variety, Reeves said he did not know the film was an allegory for transgender identity during production.

█ Visual effects (Bullet time scene etc). Manex Visual Effects used a cluster farm running the Unix-like operating system FreeBSD to render many of the film's visual effects.

#Matrix using #Unix #FreeBSD #Film #Visual #Effects #FX
#RedPill #BluePill

Weird how it's "good" people need to pay for stuff sometimes because it's not great overall for people to just pay for all this kind of energy consumption / decay you could say / the rain forest in some ways etc with pointless task (even mixed with even the best reasons)...

just being honest but not saying I know you either and how you use tech specifically, just more that nowadays seems many more seem to be able and enabled to mis-spend as others enable us to do 'more' and achieve measurable less...

But would like to hear you out if this pulls any strings of feelings inside you or if you see it in others as they may be more dedicated at these kinds of "waste" / different aims...

#Servers / #DataCentres / #Electricity / #Data / #Chips / #Resources #Computing #Power # Copmputers #Waste #Time ?

Neo (the name) means itself as noun (or adjective) something similar to:

New, revised new version

I missed that all this time or at least not as consciously remember linking Neo name to actually knowing he is the 6th or 7th generation / iteration that is coming through The Matrix and also allowed by Matrix to keep Zion as supply of people going! (I think I got this part right am re-reading now!!!)

█ Clever the Wachowskis Brothers either way!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wachowskis

#Matrix #film got me again with it's cleverness.

█ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix

Obviously I could be dumb but easy to miss the depth of Matrix not just by this example but others I mentioned before, usually from reading the Wiki and realising the real story!...