That’s a rhetorical question, in case there’s any doubt. I know the exact what and why of their bullshit.

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    I think they are clamping down and trying to force people to watch yt in Google’s desired way. They have managed to stop most Piped instances via ip banning and also requesting users to “sign in to confirm you are not a robot”. I wish their was a proper alternative at this point. It would be great if something like Peertube took off.

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      Might be cool to start advocating for some YouTube creators to also post their stuff on federated video hosting/sharing instances. Peertube is pretty cool. I mean shit, if any of you are thinking of being creators, and you make a video, put it both on YouTube and some Peertube instance.

      Edit: replaced a word with “instance” and added word “instance”

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        There are maybe a dozen non nuts on Odyssey. They’re just drown out by the fascists.

        Problem is:

        Peertube doesn’t pay

        You have to pay for the backup/storage of your videos.

        PT will have massive scaling pains.

        Yt spends a lot of that advertising money hosting non profitable videos for free.

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        Unfortunately creators need to be paid and YouTube ad & subscription money is a big part of that for many of them.

        By posting to elsewhere that won’t pay them, they would be reducing their income

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    Everyone here is like “use this” “use that” which is great but the immediate solution is

    switch to desktop mode

    You’re welcome

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    I’ve gone out of my way to make a cracked .IPA of YouTube (basic adocker + sponserblock + Downloader) for my phone to not have to deal with there stuff and it’s held out so far. Just hope it keeps doing so

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        it’s a version of Uyou that you can find on GitHub. Tells you how, though you have to do a bit of the compiling yourself

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      If Odysee wasn’t filled with so much racist, misinformed, crypto-slinging bullshit, maybe normal people would actually use it. Right now, the best solution is joining someone’s patreon.

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        If Odysee wasn’t filled with so much racist, misinformed, crypto-slinging bullshit

        Deal with it. Otherwise you’ll take every single monopolistic abuse from Google, and you’ll just complain and keep using it

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                Odysee and Rumble are the platforms that wackjobs (like flat earthers) have flocked to in the past year or so.

                Those platforms aren’t promoting that content per se, it’s just that such content isn’t moderated like on YouTube and Facebook. And before you say “but there’s tons of that stuff on YouTube and Facebook already!” it doesn’t compare.

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                  I believe that. Like Gab, right? The scum sinks to the bottom.

                  If I understand correctly, I think I side with the people saying use it anyway. Video hosting is hard, and YouTube is more enshittified every day.