one important aspect: it defrays the cost of hosting popular videos somewhat via a bittorrent-like mechanism. but as I understand it, they have to be popular enough that >1 person on the planet is watching them simultaneously for this to make a difference.

please tell me I can actually upload videos and, like, do anything at all with my channel now

edit: god dammit 🤦🏻

Thanks for calling out that it’s not The Mastodon Network™, no matter how much Gargron wishes ot were so.

Every massive influx from Twitter has brought a deluge of people I want nothing to do with in any way shape or form, and a small sprinkling of cool ones. Fortunately like 4/5ths of the crappy ones leave again, but that other 1/5th is a big number when you’re talking an influx of hundreds of thousands.

One can also mine Monero on normal everyday computers.