Beau Miles, an Australian adventurer and super optimist, is trying to plant a bunch of trees.

A lot of Beaus content is about the power of positivity and the environment, I would suggest he is worth a watch in general. Even better when he is trying to achieve something worthwhile.

Can Lemmy help?

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I would think that most of the Fediverse is inclined enough to have an adblocker

Then again, most of Lemmy doesn't circumvent paywalls either

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago

    Look I am definitely... Well, not guilty... Let's say a keen advocate of not having crazy amounts of advertising rammed down my throat.

    However I think raw viewership will help with surfacing the video to a larger audience, surely YouTube sees "ad-free" viewership as still a valid barometer of mass appeal and would therefore seek to boost that video in hopes of getting more ad-supported eyeballs on it.

    Or I am speaking out of my ass, who knows.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I was partially sceptic, but the idea does seem nice, and he was fairly honest. Lets hope he can reach a million views.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    As long as he's not planting a monoculture, it should be good and it can have my view 🙂

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I tend to think there will be a degree of variety, I believe that often in our forests it tends to be the underbrush that tends to be the more varied with gum trees and some acacias being the larger species a lot of the underbrush develops under. That being said I am in no way an expert on forestry and would defer to just about anyone with a passing familiarity of Australian forest biodiversity.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I like Beau, gave it a watch. Was at like 40k when I did.

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Best of luck to him! Hope this goes far and wide.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    I'd love to see it exceed his expectations, but I think his table in the middle covers the "Wildly Optimistic" contingency well enough that we will struggle to beat it.

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    This guy has so much energy.

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