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I imagine a lot of that is due to issues with liability. If a journalist says "X did Y", that opens them up to lawsuits. If they say "A alleges that X did Y", then that allows them to report without fear of a lawsuit.

The end of the article did talk about who may have sent them out there.

Two of the survivors said Greek authorities had asked them, through interpreters and lawyers, to give evidence against the nine Egyptians who have been accused of people trafficking.

But all four survivors said the nine Egyptians were passengers, seated among them on the journey. They say the ship's crew were masked and spent most of their time in the cabin.

"The crew jumped in the water when the coastguard approached and some of these nine Egyptians tried to sail the boat," one of them told us. "It seems to me they are not the ones involved in people smuggling," he added.

Relatives of Egyptians who fear their loved ones were on board have told the BBC that they paid $4,500 (£3,500) each for the journey.

Just what we need- crypto bros with a white savior complex

Yeah, I'm glad at least a few YouTubers are starting to mirror content on sites like Odysee though (Such as Louis Rossman). I think that, like Lemmy, it just needs to reach a critical mass of users before it's viable

Good Wired article on this (in case you are somehow out-of-the-loop): https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-api-changes-ai-labor/

If you're learning a language, netflix has good tie-ins with language reactor... but if the $9.99 option goes away, I'll just switch to the beta video + subtitle file upload for that

I kind of hate that you're right

I tend to agree. Something federated like PeerTube seems ideal for curating what kinds of content you want, but the data requirements for that are going to be much higher than mostly text and image-based things like lemmy or mastodon

I guess this is the kick in the pants to go over to odysee or somewhere else, huh

I've been watching "Match Me Abroad." Basically, it's people going to other countries in order to find love through a matchmaker service. It's not very good, but it's entertaining.

I'm conversational in Spanish, but I've recently been trying to put more effort into maintaining it/getting exposure to the language. I haven't seriously studied it in almost ten years, so honestly I'm surprised I've maintained any of it.

About a month ago, I started trying to learn Japanese. It's going better than expected, I've been trying to do 1-2 hours per day in stuff like LingQ and Language Reactor. I feel like I'm starting to understand some of it, though I still can't say much more than "えきは どこ です か？" (where is the train station). Still, this is a lot more enjoyable than formal education, so I'm fine if it's slow