I think what you're seeing is just the indicator for "new" comments. I don't know how lemmy determines if a comment is "new" or not, but if it's new it will be in the "gold" color.
This is a question for Randall Munroe. I wish I knew how to summon him.
Selling is an art... and this is why I'm not in sales. I have absolutely no interest in trying to convince somebody to buy something.
Ahhh that makes more sense... that's about 0.13 USD. It's interesting to me, because I would gladly pay that much per video (or more!) if it meant I didn't have to watch ads.
Of course that model doesn't exactly lend itself to mindlessly clicking through videos (which is what Youtube wants). I know there are other video platforms out there... do you know of any that charge users per view?
Thanks for doing the math!
Forgive me, I'm not super familiar with world currencies... is that 10 GBP?
Just out of curiosity... if you could charge per view rather than relying on ads, how much would you need to charge per view in order to meet your income goals?
Sorry, I'm not understanding what you're trying to say. Your original post made it clear that you wanted to support the creators, so what's the involuntary charity you're referring to?
Maybe it's not a conspiracy... maybe people are just uninterested in reading your drama and don't think it belongs in asklemmy.
If I'm being honest, I've never even looked to see what language most of the stuff I run is written in. Out of 16 apps that I'm running, only 3 are accessible from outside my LAN. Those three are high-profile open source projects that are actively maintained. That's enough for me to be comfortable security-wise in my environment.
I wrote my personal website in PHP, and I'm pretty happy with the security I've got going on. I'm not an expert, but I paid close attention to best practices to avoid pitfalls like SQL injection. My instinct is that it's certainly easy to code insecure applications in PHP (and probably many other languages as well), but the language does provide means by which to code safely.
Thanks for posting this. Every little bit helps!
You beat me by like 30 seconds... but yeah, I think this is what OP is seeing.