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Personally, the current environment has led me to avoid most of the popular culture instead.

On one hand, it's a bit sad to see the average person not know about the Fediverse and claim "welp, there's nowhere else to go, it's either staying on the same ten junkyards I know or quitting cold-turkey". On the other hand, the relative obscurity kind of comes from the fact that there's no single main instance of the Fediverse. Sure there's things like Mastodon.Social, Lemmy.ML and Misskey.GG that concentrate most users of their niche, but by nature, there is not (and should not be) a centralized place where everybody is, that can be used as the poster child for the Fediverse.

Remember March 2012, when SOPA and PIPA were about to pass, and many websites were blacking out as a form of protest, some people were advocating for a "Black March" to have everyone boycott Big Media, pirated or not, for the entire month? Yeah sure it didn't spread like wildfire because of course, the population is already too addicted to popular culture to drop it cold-turkey, but at this rate people may be forced to give it a go by force.

60 FPS videos are only available at 720p and above, so maybe your browser is defaulting to 480p?

If I need to pay taxes anyway, at least I prefer to have the investment returned back to me in some way, and this seems like a nice way to do so.

Know what would solve this problem once and for all? If people collectively decided to boycott "popular culture" and entertain themselves without bowing to the copyright industry

If anything, I expect two things to rise - people that just stop watching videos online cold-turkey, and pirate mirrors of popular YouTube channels

While online I have most of my items under lock and key, my personal computer at home is set to boot automatically with my password (since the attack vector of "having the feds raid my home" is fortunately not an issue for me). So in the rare case that I'm no longer available, my family can just get my user names and passwords from my computer

As a user of third-party controllers on the PS4: yup, the DualShock 4 security is a pain. And the DualSense security hasn't been cracked yet - the closest gadget I've found actually uses Remote Play to bypass the authentication requirement.

Console developers sell at a loss specifically to tie you to their ecosystem and get as much money from you as possible. Which is why it's so complicated to get a PC equivalent in specs to, say, a PS5 at the price of an actual PS5 - unless you go to the used parts route and learn how to assemble parts by yourself.

Or more accurately, experiencing culture and media that social pressure coaxes you into being interested in.

I'm surprised that so few people decide to follow the spirit of the law and, just, boycott media instead.