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Cake day: December 2nd, 2024

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  • that depends entirely on what they’re doing. if it’s illegal then whatever the law says to. otherwise, there’s nothing you really can do other than try to ensure people won’t get caught up in whatever they’re doing.

    for example, flat earthers are harmful to society because they push an anti-science narrative that makes people reject reality in favor of whatever they want to believe. However, stopping them from saying things would be a violation of their right to free speech (which must be upheld even then because otherwise people could simply label any idea they don’t like as harmful and suppress it, leading directly to a dictatorship), so instead we try to make sure people know that the earth is not flat and why.

    in much the same way, someone taking advantage of someone else (say a guy leveraging a girl’s trauma to make her not leave him, without actually violating the law) often can’t be effectively governed without introducing something that could be used to take people’s rights away in the name of protection. because of this, we have to try and make sure that people don’t fall for it instead.




  • 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.