Holy shit people, my first Nebula video starts with a BANG! It's a video by some guy named Jacob Geller who may or may not be super famous (can't tell b/c there is NO VIEW COUNT!) talking about the first episode of The Twilight Zone.

You can watch one video without signing up: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-the-future-is-an-empty-room

Seriously, if this is indicative of the Nebula experience, it's exactly what I was looking for.

@sknob oh, nice! It looks like there's so much good stuff on there. And if it's sknob-approved, it's probably a good place!

@alisynthesis haha, I’m.a peertube noob, proceed at your own risk!

@alisynthesis I really like Nebula. I bought a lifetime subscription for $300 a while ago. I lke that there's _just enough_ content published every day that I can scan through what has been published since the last time I checked and add what's interesting to my Watch Later list.

Holy shit people, my first Nebula video starts with a BANG! It's a video by some guy named Jacob Geller who may or may not be super famous (can't tell b/c there is NO VIEW COUNT!) talking about the first episode of The Twilight Zone.

You can watch one video without signing up: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-the-future-is-an-empty-room

Seriously, if this is indicative of the Nebula experience, it's exactly what I was looking for.

@alisynthesis
If you don't know them already from youtube, check out Philosophy Tube and Angela Collier too. They are on Nebula.

@defaultmediatransmitter okay, I'm getting kinda geeked about this.

@defaultmediatransmitter @alisynthesis Gellar's stuff is all great! i don't really even play video games but his stuff is usually just using games as a way to talk about bigger things (but obv he loves games & generally focuses on them)

Angela Collier bump!

Big Joel
Adam Neely - music!
Bobby Broccoli
Lindsay Ellis
Curious Archive
Isaac Arthur
Joe Scott
Captain Midnight
Patrick H Willems
Minute Physics
Not Just Bikes
Maggie Mae Fish
Climate Town

@tsrono @defaultmediatransmitter @alisynthesis

same. not gaming anymore, but gellar's stuff is so good. i recommend:

- art for noone
- fear of big things underwater
- fear of depths

he is so good. there are i guess several about lonelyness-feelings as well.

edit: oh and "games that aren't games"

@lislegaard I haven't been gaming too much lately, but he started talking about Death Stranding, and I thought, "now THERE'S a game that would be cool to play!"

I went to see how much it cost, and lo and behold, I have it in my Steam Library already.

Instead of taking it as a sign that I might have early onset dementia, I will take it as a sign that Nebula is cool.

@tsrono @defaultmediatransmitter

@alisynthesis @tsrono @defaultmediatransmitter

positive take

Holy shit people, my first Nebula video starts with a BANG! It's a video by some guy named Jacob Geller who may or may not be super famous (can't tell b/c there is NO VIEW COUNT!) talking about the first episode of The Twilight Zone.

You can watch one video without signing up: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-the-future-is-an-empty-room

Seriously, if this is indicative of the Nebula experience, it's exactly what I was looking for.

@alisynthesis

yeah that's the thing! i just learned about it last week. which is you know, very symbolic of the whole situation.

people like you and me should OBVIOUSLY know about it, right? how do we "promote" it?

maybe we need to hire some anarchists to pirate everything they find interesting and not slop or ragebait, pirate it and put it on a peertube for us to watch.

@lislegaard hey, if I have to be delusional to be happy, so be it.

@tsrono @defaultmediatransmitter

@alisynthesis killed my YT sub just recently, signed up for a year of Nebula (less than half the price iirc).

Nebula's good & has a lot of good stuff but it's going to be much, much more narrow than YT, & that's what's killing me... this seems obvious but after a week or two of Nebula-first viewing, i'm still kicking back to YT (now w/ ads!) regularly; for various music stuff, mostly.

sigh.

@tsrono @alisynthesis
After years of curating the YT algorithm (as best as I practically can), more than half of my Recommended feed is music. Some old, some new.
Mostly obscure music from specific genres, on YT channels that rip & upload in good faith. Some of it's also on Bandcamp, but most of it was never reissued since the original (cassette or vinyl) release. Not major label.
Until a few years ago, I could stream from these channels for hours at a time. No mid-roll ads, maybe one pre-roll.

@tsrono @alisynthesis
After years of curating the YT algorithm (as best as I practically can), more than half of my Recommended feed is music. Some old, some new.
Mostly obscure music from specific genres, on YT channels that rip & upload in good faith. Some of it's also on Bandcamp, but most of it was never reissued since the original (cassette or vinyl) release. Not major label.
Until a few years ago, I could stream from these channels for hours at a time. No mid-roll ads, maybe one pre-roll.

@alisynthesis
I’ve subscribed to Nebula for a year, then let it lapse. There’s some good content on there, but so far they’ve kept it pretty limited/aren’t inviting the creators I’d like to see there. The quality is definitely better than YouTube for what is there.

I’m guessing it is probably more effective to subscribe to the Patreon channels that are most interesting to you. But I haven’t used patreon yet.

@neverbeaten @alisynthesis
You just reminded me of why I didn't jump at Nebula when I first heard about it (as the sponsor of a YT video from a niche tech video creator): their invite-only policy for creators, which was touted as a feature in most of the Sponsor sections. As in: its not open, but also new creators can't apply to join.

If that's how Nebula curates their platform, that's their choice, but it just didn't sit right with me (for some reason that I can't quite put my finger on).

@alisynthesis @dec23k it's such a huge resource for so much obscure music, no doubt. i've heard of others like you working the feed to give them good stuff but i imagine that's had diminishing returns over the last couple years - i've seen my feed get better in some ways but worse in others. ‍️