I wanna say there’s Hilarious Chaos which is right wing and a lil more normie. This instance is pretty good too.

I don’t know if leaning into the Velma effect will be a profitable long-term play

How long do you give it?

True

Don’t pretend to be surprised, this is Lemmy we’re talking about. It’s how they roll! Inclusion through exclusion or something.

I’ve come across him before, I think he moderates a right wing Lemmy community I’m a member of.

It’s the first one I always see whenever I look up lists of Fediverse alternatives and I always end up on the site. I use fedidb.org but I don’t use it to find Fediverse software.

Another good point 👍🏾

Because as the leading “Fediverse alternative” website, it essentially tells the viewer that Lemmy doesn’t exist, which I think does a disservice to prospective Fediverse users.

But yes good point, anyone can make an alternative website, I think right wing people made like a fuckgab.com site back in the day to recommend Gab alternatives on the Fediverse.

Generally fair point. My issue though is that most people will just go to this website and won’t consider other lists or websites, viewing this as the definitive list of Fediverse alternatives. Someone not putting someone’s software on their website isn’t technically censorship, true (this is the other coin of free speech), it does effectively censor Lemmy from the general conversation about Fediverse alternatives.

No, I don’t. If it’s about instances I’d understand it a bit more, even though I wouldn’t entirely agree with that either (I’m a free speech stan), but this is a page listing Fediverse alternative software. The software is fine and relatively untainted from the intentions of the Lemmy devs from what I can tell (although that was not originally the case). They deserved to be criticized, but not censored from Fediverse articles listing alternatives to big tech platforms.

I hate it when people try to gatekeep like this. I don’t need to be handheld. If there’s a Fediverse alternative to something and it mostly works, it should be on the website. Anything less is not useful at best.

Edit: I say this as someone who has historically criticized the behavior of the devs as well as multiple Lemmy communities BTW.

I wondered if they would actually torrent the series themselves

NGL I’d love it if that term was customizable by each server admin. Definitely funny, but not sure that it belongs in vanilla Lemmy.

If I was in your boat I’d probably do what you’re doing right now, because I hate Roku’s operating system. Long ago my family used this Roku for the same use case:

https://www.amazon.com/Roku-Express-Ditital-Streaming-Player/dp/B07CVH1L53?psc=1

It’s the Roku Roku Express+ 3910RW. Apparently it doesn’t get updates anymore though so your mileage may vary with this thing.

https://community.roku.com/t5/Roku-setup/Roku-Express-With-Composite-Cables/td-p/823748

What’s Newsgroups?

I hear good things about the Ultra but I’ll never buy one. The Premiere+ is still killing it and I don’t think we’ll need to replace it, and nobody in the family seems to care as much about this as I do so I don’t think they’ll be replacing the other Roku products in the home anytime soon.

Hmm I can’t say I’ve ever used the voice features. But I (unfortunately) got my family into the Roku ecosystem awhile ago (before streaming blew up, we had got rid of DirecTV longgggg ago when it became too expensive and my dad had lost his job) and every single Roku device we’ve ever had except for the 2018 Roku Premiere+ just slowly gets more and more broken over time. The interface will take multiple seconds to respond to a button press after a couple years or so. It’s so bad that we have a Roku TV that’s so slow that there’s a Roku device plugged into it that we use instead, and even that device is so slow that I’m washing it got burned with fire. On top of that I can tell that certain apps know that they’re running on crappy hardware and software (particularly the Sling TV app), and deliver footage at a horrendously low video quality as a result.

I do but at least they don’t prevent you from suing them like Roku does.

Never mind, I guess they do

https://support.google.com/store/answer/9427031?hl=en

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/r265c7/how_to_opt_out_of_googles_binding_arbitration/

The operating system is still better though. Suck it Roku.