I upgraded from 42 to 43 through discover. I think that and terminal are the recommended methods, according to the docs. If you do it with ISO it writes over the root partition and keeps all other partitions and volumes.

TL;DR: Misskey/Sharkey is our best bet, but network effect exists and I’m sad because I want more artists.

Honestly, I used Amino forever ago in middle school so I have no idea what it looked like before it died, but I feel like the closest Fediverse comparison of it’s functionality would be Misskey/Sharkey. It has a sleek UI that has a text and media focus (blog style), polls, offers chats (I think), reaction emotes, etc. You could totally make an instance around Anime/Games/Movies/whatever in general, or do focused communities on a specific media, like this Splatoon-themed Japanese Misskey server I used to visit, ikaskey.bktsk.com. I use Aria as a mobile app for Misskey/Sharkey and it’s not too bad, although the webUI for Misskey/Sharkey is truly beautiful and engaging. Threadiverse is too forum focused to truly count as a Amino replacement imo, but none of Fediverse truly fits with how Amino ran (for good reasons lol, we’re a federated social media, they weren’t).

The only issue with Fediverse anything is truly just the network effect. I have a Sharkey account at Sakurajima.social that I barely use because I just can’t find the people I want to follow. Same for my Pixelfed.art account and my Urusai.social (mastodon) account that I have following the mastodon.art instance. Federation kills a lot of interaction too, like not seeing another instance’s posts yet, or trying to like something and it failing to do so, or when you have to pull them up on their local instance. Misskey probably has most of the active artists, but you have to usually know Japanese (I am learning at least), use a VPN since foreginers are banned (and VPNs might not work), and then they defederate with most English instances anyway. Tbf Misskey did start as a Japanese made service, so that’s why it’s like that.

There are so many artists that I wish would at least move to Bluesky and use bridgy fed so I could see them, but most are sticking with Twitter and Instagram because they don’t want to have to move their followers. Fediverse doesn’t have the numbers, and we’re so tech/political focused that it’s hard to advertise ourselves. I check some of the anime communities here, but it’s mostly just posting news about upcoming anime, some borderline empty discussions (about anime I don’t watch unfortunately), and memes. I can’t even find communities focused on individual games and media I like, and of the ones that do exist, they have months between posting times.

Maybe I can beg artists from instagram and twitter to migrate/post to fediverse with this. Looks awesome, thanks!

Yep, fingerprinting is a bitch. I’ve tried settings on Librewolf and IronFox to reduce it, but obviously it’s impossible to fool the creators of internet stalking.

Anyway, tried with a brand spanking new profile on Librewolf, no VPN on, and tried to watch. Wouldn’t work without logging in, and after that it still asked to verify my age.

Tried in Ungoogled Chromium with VPN set to Canada on guest profile (I’ve never used guest), and same thing. Tried with Japan VPN on a fake profile named “Jimmy”, same thing. Tried my other Google account on another new fake chromium profile and Argentina VPN, but no dice. At this rate Google probs thinks I’m hacked lol.

I know why YTs have been censoring themselves, and I know that the video having “Fuck” in the title is the reason. But in the past Google would just give a warning, or simply use the age listed on your account (which yes, could be faked as I did in the past). None of that is new to me.

The issue now, is that they’re actually enforcing age checks, and you can’t get around them without giving up personal info to Google. I am legally an adult, but now I have to show ID or use a credit card to prove it. That’s the gross shit. I guess it’s mostly a vent post, since this is the first time I’ve literally been unable to watch a video.

Been using Fedora for a year or so now. I’ve done tests with ipleak and such to verify my VPN isn’t leaking, and have torrented on it (with it attached to my client and tested that the client stops when the VPN is disconnected).

Holy shit, that’s crazy. Thankfully I’ve moved most of my stuff from Google to other services (I love mailbox.org ♥️) but I might have a thing or two stuck on there…

Thanks for the heads up, hopefully I can just ride this one out, but it’s ass man…

I do use Proton often, and it seems it was set to New Jersey this time. I live in the US, and afaik, my state doesn’t have mandatory age checks for all websites.

Edit: NVM, my state has signed and will soon enforce a social media age check. Guess I’ll VPN to other states and countries 💀

Even when I disable ProtonVPN, the same things happen. Freetube and Invidious say may be inappropriate, mpv crashes (non age restricted videos play fine), and even YT ReVanced throws a fit on both my accounts. On browser, both Librewolf and Ungoogled Chromium get hit with the same “verify age” button. On Fedora Linux.

There should be a short of noise that’s made when a video or picture is taken/recording, kinda like how all Japanese phones are legally required to have a shutter click noise. It’d be nice if the LED being covered disabled the camera though.

Actually, I was just about to post how you can’t even use yt-dlp or alternative front ends, since I just tried that. Mpv crashes, Freetube comes up with a blank and mentioned age verification, and yt-dlp showed the same thing. Pipepipe probably won’t work due to using invidious.

It’s based off a joke about Tumblr banning porn and nudity. We Allow Female-presenting Nipples. It makes it memorable and instantly loveable to me, and I think most of the people who lived through the Tumblr porn exodus to Twitter would chuckle.