@randahl Maybe take a look at how https://latenightlinux.com/, https://www.404media.co/ or https://risky.biz/ finance their work.
All the shows under the Latenight Linux umbrella have homemade, curated adverts promoting products related to the show's topic. Like 404, you can get advert-free access if you pay a monthly fee.

Risky.biz uses a different approach. The Soapbox: In the second half, which is clearly separated, the host talks to a CEO about the latest advancements in their product.

@randahl #peertube

@randahl What are some alternatives to YT?

@randahl

Well, yes,
anyone who sits down at Trumpy's dinner table and expects favors from him in order to become even richer,
should be allowed to make such a small deletion,
no matter what the reasons are.

It belongs to them and they can do what they want with it.
Goodbye freedom of speech.

This world is going to hell in a handbasket.

🧵

@randahl
always make multiple storage hubs for videos and documentation about the genocide. never trust the big tech companies. use their services, yet pile up files elsewhere

@randahl It's really not the most important part of that article, or even in the top 10 most important parts, but "YouTube spokesperson Boot Bullwinkle" is a hell of a phrase.

@randahl youTube is hardly considered the library of Alexandria but it's pretty much the closest thing we've got and in fact the entire world needs a solid plan B for that video repository of information...and there isn't one.

@randahl
Any more question about moving from YT to peertube at any costs? No matter how much you try to reach people on YT, when the "management" decides that of is time for your block.

Happy german discussions. Time to donate for resilient European Peertube and Loops instaces and build stable communities.

It's no fun to be a Cassandra. But told you so HROs.

@randahl deswegen videos selber im fediverse hosten

@randahl
aand it's paywalled

@randahl

The ceo of Google has been in on the coup from the start. You knew or should have known censorship of anything not approved by white nationalist christo-fascists is a given. It was always a matter of when, not if.

@randahl #peertube could be a solution.

@randahl Ein weiteres Beispiel fürs Versagen bei der #digitaleSouveränität und warum solche Monopolstellungen gefährlich sind, im Gegensatz zu Netzwerken mit offenen Standards (wie dem #fediverse):
Wo es einen zentralen Ort für Inhalte hat, kann Informationen verstärkt, unterdrückt und verändert werden. Egal ob der Inhaber dieses Ortes es aus eigenen Antrieb tut, auf Druck hin, der auf ihn ausgeübt wird, oder ob es ohne sein Zutun über dritte Akteure (staatlich oder nichtstaatliche Hacker) geschieht.

Wer die Vielfalt der Informationen erhalten will, muss Monopole vermeiden und verhindern und statt dessen dezentrale, federative Lösungen fordern und einsetzen.

@randahl

So much for MAGAs freedom of peach rants. They won't be up in arms about this, only when they can't be abusive.

@randahl
Aside from the obvious response of switching to an open video-sharing platform for one's own posts, there must be consequences for warcrime collaboration and complicity by Google and all others so complicit. The impunity by big tech for their part in war crimes; crimes against humanity; and the fomenting, amplifying, & reinforcing of whitenationalist global tyranny has to end right now.

@randahl I’d also look for alternative platforms and backups because information of this level shouldn’t just disappear.

@randahl i understand your concerns but i guess you would think differently once yt starts taking down your content. personally i refuse yt. only rarely will i watch a yt video and never from my browser (i use downie). in times of crisis, we need imagination and fresh solutions. google is already the past... a reflection of the old world which is why they openly support the orange antoinette...

@randahl Perhaps it’s about time to ditch YouTube for either something federated (PeerTube?), or at least a platform hosted in the EU.

@randahl "I clearly need a plan B".

Plan B incoming: https://joinpeertube.org @peertube

@randahl then the question is, do we have an #European version of #youtube that won't bend for #dictators will?

@randahl I'll be sorry to lose YouTube but I think the day approaches.

@randahl

"document no evil"

This is one major reason why it’s important to simultaneously also publish to Rumble and Odyssee, and to place a copy with the Internet Archive. History cannot be erased.

@randahl That's (partly) why I asked you about PeerTube presence. At least as an automatic mirror (backup for you also), of what you post on Youtube. That's an already working option we all have. Surely smaller audience but growing. And anyways, how do we know Youtube reports are legit, or if 80% traffic there ain't bots? Right now you put a massive $$ difference to acces your content on Youtube vs Patronite (i think it was). That way you're channeling your viewers toward Youtube yourself.

@randahl Forced how? Or was it more that Trump requested it and they complied without argument?

@randahl another reason to use YouTube dlp

@randahl

I would have suggested Vimeo, but a couple of months ago, it was bought by a #PrivateEquity fund.

@randahl
alphabet inc is pro-orange, probably trying to avoid monopoly cases from orange fcc and court. pretty much all big tech is financing trump's destruction project in the white house.

https://odysee.com/@fossery-tech:4/the-youtube-situation:c

disclaimer: odysee has full of crazies and shares investors with bluesky.

consider peertube.

rhetorical questions:
do you carry google account 24/7 with you !?
what if alphabet inc shadow bans your google account !?

@randahl Rather frankly, he didn't "force" YouTube. He told YouTube he'd REALLY appreciate it if that footage was no longer visible, and YouTube decided to comply.
We've become far too dependent on the whims of tech tycoons. That is our #1 problem right now.

@randahl @Techaltar any tips for people that want to join Nebula? And any thoughts on YouTube deleting political content?

@randahl THIS is actual #censorship. State orders what speech is allowed.

Plan B is digital sovereignty, distributed protocol-based systems, etc.

And we rather should have had wide adoption yesterday.

@randahl "Free Speech"

@randahl Without evidence, there's no accountability.

@randahl peertube an option?

@randahl Surprised? 🤔

@randahl These companies and their CEOs should be erased of the market. Full stop. Boycott is the only answer they'll understand.

BTW, free speech? First amendment? Where, for whom?

@randahl
Back up your stuff. Lots of people have their videos deleted suddenly. Or, now, their whole account gone.

@randahl

Illustrating again the need for regulated open source solutions. International society cannot depend on the whims of grifting big tech and a rogue dictator…

@randahl And also need plans C, D, E... and also not suprised about that.

@randahl maybe youporn works

@randahl it's a good thing YouTube's reach is split between other social media platforms. Can't censor everyone all the time.
(Hopefully 😬)

@randahl Yeah, you do.

Having other chanels matter more is the only way to have the big platforms matter less. So use other platforms.

This is why people created services like Nebula and Means TV.

@randahl

@randahl why do they allow them being forced? They become a problem in this very second & need to be boycotted. This is the only (non violent) way to stop the Felon 47 rampage through the world.

Brian Tyler Cohen has prepared for such a case. In expectation to be cut off youtube somehow, he has a mailing list for example to be able to reach his followers once this might happen.

Maybe he has more alternatives/platform ideas - since I am no contend creator I didn't pay attention to this topic.

@randahl Try PeerTube, it's an alternative to YouTube in the Fediverse.

@randahl Release the videos on peertube and don't rely on income controlled by bigtech seems to be the only way...

@randahl that's an unsuprisinlgy happening clusterf..k.