It helps that he's a great person.

Plus, he's reacted to people using his image in unusual ways before. He has an absolutely hilarious episode where he responds to someone mass generating AI created art of him in love with a cabbage. He noted the AI did a poor job, presumably through lack of adequate training data, so he married a cabbage in camera to help provide said training data!

AFAIK, it's an HDCP thing (DRM), not user agent.

That's exactly what I thought. I saw the post before the sub and thought "what is this, did r/antiMLM open a Fediverse sub?"

I don't get what the alternative is supposed to be. You can't make stuff like blockbuster quality movies on ads and/or donations alone. And between ads vs subscriptions, ads are iffy because you end up with sketchy or unethical advertisements. Plus ad blockers make it hard to sustain a business on just ads.

In an ideal world, nobody would need to "make a living" and we'd be able to offer more services for free. But we don't have that ideal world. Musicians, animators, writers, programmers and more all need to get paid somehow.

It's admittedly annoying how fractured subscriptions get, though. I miss when Netflix was the only streaming video subscription I needed. Now there's half a dozen major services and they all want exclusive contracts to show certain movies and TV.

Personally, I'm happy to pay for the stuff I use a lot. Which includes stuff that I don't even have to pay for (eg, I donated $20 to kbin). It does suck for stuff I only want a little of, though. eg, I don't have any news subscriptions because I only check news sites here and there and it's almost never the same site, too (mostly I get linked from sites like this). I want to see subscriptions become a bit more centralized, spanning multiple sites to account for this.

I noticed this too. I believe that Lemmy communities (and perhaps also Kbin magazines -- I haven't checked) don't have a "default all posts to NSFW". Thus, every individual poster must remember to mark their post as NSFW. If you look at the community view (https://kbin.social/m/gonewild@lemmynsfw.com), you'll notice that most posts are marked as NSFW and properly blurred in kbin, but some posts aren't marked NSFW.

So yeah, basically we need the ability for communities/magazines to be NSFW by default, as we can't depend on posters remembering to do so. There will always be some times when they forget.

EDIT: I've confirmed that kbin magazines have an option to make the whole magazine NSFW by default. Can any Lemmy users check if there's a Lemmy equivalent yet? If it exists, then it's a community configuration issue. If it doesn't exist, someone who knows where the Lemmy issue tracker is should go file a feature request.

That is so sad.

(alexa play despacito. Do we still do that?)