Yes, but it suffers the same problem the rest of the fediverse does: the lack of people.
If you are looking for an alternative to consume content, maybe odysee will be a better option.
Anyway, you can watch peertube using the newpipe app.
Hashtags are basically tags, if put a # before a word, the post, it’ll create a link to that tag and I’ll be easy to find similar content.
So for example if I use #bunny and you tap the link, all content with that hashtag will be displayed.
I also read the comment about the racist uncle, it was a discussion of the different kind of people facebook (I won’t call it meta) will be going to expose us when they join the fediverse. The person who post it wasn’t attacking the “normies”.
About the term “normie” isn’t necessary an insult or just a person who isn’t up with technology, but instead someone who enjoy more basic things. Is OK to be a normie if that’s makes you happy.
I don’t get why is OK for them to call us “nerds” (most of the times in a not sarcastic manner) but not for is to call them “normies” (in a sarcastic manner).
Most of the times that we invite a “normie” to the fediverse they reject us, “I don’t like that”, “facebook is better”, " that’s for nerds" they say, and that happens also with music, books, even food, they are just comfortable with how things are and that’s OK.
It isn’t that we are gatekeeping, but instead that they don’t want to join us.
Instead of reddit use Kbin/Lemmy
Instead of twitter use Mastodon
Instead of YouTube use Peertube/Odysee
By the way, we should stop using imgur for pictures
This.
Plus some instances like searx.tiekoetter.com replace links to page that contain ads and trackers with their alternative (twitter with nitter, YouTube with Invidious, reddit with libreddit, etc).
Let’s said I use AI to write a book, in that case, AI will just grab what someone’s else wrote.
Let’s said I use AI to Write code, AI will just copy someone’s else code.
Let’s said I use AI to make art, AI uses Someone’s else art.
Then, let’s said I sell the book, use the code and make nft’s with the art, since AI “did it” I don’t have to follow any license or give credit to anyone.
About using only public information, that should be an opt in, but instead AI companies are just taking public internet, putting it inside a can a selling it, you like it or not.