Nothing major, but I have now activated Email Subscriptions for the blog. This decision came from two main things.
The general engagement of the blogs seem relatively high and wish to the continue writing whenever I have a free moment.
I recently purchasing the 5 year plan to host the blog on Write As for discounted price that works out to $3 per month. This is now way cheaper than twitter blue, and I feel more fulfilled for doing so.
I few blog posts in mind in the future and including extra material for some youtube projects I’m working on. So stay tuned for that either through the fediverse, rss, or now email if you wish.
Youtube Alternatives, and sites in used in addition as a monetary support wether it be donate or subscription sites is something that has always been an interest for me. While I don’t currently have any interest in taking my content seriously much less monetize it, the fact that individuals can make a career out of their work easier than ever with so many different methods, tools and approaches takes up more of my idle scrolling time. Plus, I think if you’re reading this blog you' probably have come to the conclusion that for all of YouTube’s pluses, you still know that hosting all your videos on one platform may not end well. Especially given the recent changes to YouTube’s policy.
So for this blog post I want to talk about some of the alternatives or additional streaming services to YouTube that personally taken an interest in. If but, from a far.
Hey everyone, hope your Christmas and New Years was was good one! With Febuarary fast approaching I just wanted to keep everyone up to date with how the Haitus has went so far, and update on the next video.
First Blog post of the new year. I hope everyone who had a good christmas and any other holiday. Now we have to talk about another tech company annoying me.
Like literally minute one of the new year, Youtube videos are being changed to Limited Moneitized and Mature content because of new policy changes. Which in typical youtube fashion was not communicated or if it was, it was buried under less iportent update emails like Handle changes. This was first reported by Cr1tical:
Setting up a game for my brother went from simple affair to me questioning relationship with modern Technology. Now let me rant to you about my philosophy on the matter. Excuse me if I sound like an Old Fart.
Today (December 23rd, 2022) I uploaded a compilation of all the funny bits I did in 2022. It’s quite the accomplishment as I only post about two videos in 2021, plus 1 compilation of all the work the previous years. Now I have 5 videos, plus a handful of original shorts, and this compilation.
There has even had a reasonable increase in viewership. To say I’m grateful, and content with what I have accomplished this year in an understatement as there was a while were I did start to doubt myself. As a celebration I am writing to go over the processes of this year, and what I learned from do them.
This is the Nemes Content Rewind 2022, Because YouTube killed Rewind but it’s still in our collective consciousness!
So every now and again you hear a Influencer or big name state that they need to get off or limit their social media use. Twitter being the usual suspect for a number a reasons. The endless scrolling addiction, the advertisements, Trending praying on what will get engagement the most that usually ends up being negative, and accidentally stumbling upon some of the most garbage takes so bad you think you were in a grocery store of filled with people who never got the memo that no one asked.
And I am still salty about being told the touch grass, espeically when I do, in fact, touch grass but that’s another story.
And I started to recongize this more and more during the (peak of the) pandemic, and noticed that maybe this isn't the best for my mental heath, and I could be using my time on more productive things. Even if that's just unplugging to not overwelm myself and get decent sleep for once. Though like with any addiction or depenancy problem... it isn't easy.
And then Musk bought twitter, and that was my breaking point.
“Wow Nemes, THAT was your breaking point? A billionaire gets control over a site? Really?”
In a time before social media and user geenrated content sites were deominate in the way they are now, the internet was largely made up of smaller sites and blogs that were self hosted or hosted through a paid service. This means if you wanted to see if the site had an updated or new article, you'd had to phsyically go to that url. It was not centralized, and it can be a bit of pain to keep up with everything.
Little did this small baby Rambler know at the time that there was a standard to pull site updates into an aggregate feed that you could see in your lesure without an annoying notification going off. Enter Web Syndication protocols with the most well know being RSS, with Atom being a notable second.
This is a bit early to announce, but starting the beginning of December, I’m taking a break from Youtube until Febuaray 2023. I will be making a short on the channel of officially announce this, but I wanted to say this in blog as it’s faster to get out.
