No, that's not why.
grozzle
does it still stand? are Hamas using the same supply chain of altered pagers?
signs point to no.
real users just inspect the blinkenlights array.
the letters are "supposed to be" for Latin, a language with only five different vowel sounds.
everyone since has just been making a bunch of shit up.
there are several orders of magnitude difference between text-forums with almost all multimedia content hosted externally, and hosting/streaming video.
a big Lemmy instance is a manageable cost for a few well-paid people to run out of their own disposable income.
anything even vaguely approaching YouTube is not.
by analogy with goose,
ceech
i read it as - the Premium money is mostly going to YouTube HQ, instead of to video makers.
Can confirm, at least for Acast distribution, I generally get no ads when I'm not in an English speaking country at the time of download.
However, iHeart podcasts are always absolutely crammed full of ads everywhere.
I was trying to help you see how you misunderstood, but sure. Beep boop.
whoosh
Mehta sounds like Meta, Fasbuk sounds like Facebook. it was a joke.
I'm Spanish and I don't fight bulls. I'm from Poland. Also you shouldn't call Europeans Spanish, it's considered offensive. And maybe stop saying Europeans eat pasta, we don't eat pasta.
you mean a computing pool, like SETI@home since the late 90s?
absolutely no need to make this idea stink of a crypto scam.