Look man I've been a shorts hater since youtube introduced the feature but I feel like we're really defeating the point if now people can just upload three-minute shorts

Like if there's no cap on length and it's just regular videos, isn't that just...normal youtube?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=429n... Recently the last straw for a lot of twitter artists was a remix button that let anyone edit your work with AI. Spotify's doing the same thing and I hope this will have a similar effect.

It's just as uncool when it happens to musicians as when it happens to artists.

Sometimes I forget how expensive the area I live is.

I always figure it's not bad b/c it's not as bad as LA or SF or NYC, but I accidentally looked up a building in another state, and it's surreal seeing a 3-bed with 2k sqft for $1k less than an 800 sqft 1-bed in the building I meant to look up.

Reading about crypto scammers making millions of dollars from swindling people with JUST enough plausible deniability to be legally clear makes me very sad that I have ethics and a functioning moral compass

Protip: If you're doing #photography, make sure you learn how to quickly focus manually. Especially if you're doing wildlife and your subjects are patterned specifically to blend in.

My eyes could see this bird and focus properly. My camera's autofocus decided to focus on a branch.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BS5... Sometimes you just need a song that oozes so much sheer arrogant confidence that you can see yourself strutting in slo-mo to it

Yeah in case it wasn't obvious since that thread is my only post on here I mostly lurk on this place. I'm more active over on Mastodon, but I'm going to try to do more stuff here too now that the dam has finally broken.

Oh yeah, I have one of these, don't I?

To everyone arriving, welcome! I hope it is much more pleasant here than it was with E. Lawnmusk.

That said, I am going to take this opportunity to encourage you to look into your own personal website long term. Yes I know that is MUCH easier said than done.