I get the impulse to create for fun, I really do. But once having created that art for fun, I can also see the impulse to want money from it, if possible, or to increase your social status. So as long as platforms offering reimbursement exist, they will have better and more content than free platforms.

And I’m also listening to what the YouTubers I personally follow say. One of my favorite youtubers is only youtube because TikTok stopped paying creators (and because algorithmically every video was a total crapshoot regardless of followers). A lot of creators I follow also make a big deal of Nebula, because that’s more a cooperative arrangement where they get a larger share of the profits…

Those videos people did “for fun” also had massive exposure, because there was money coming in to pay for the servers to push those videos out.

Peertube offers neither much exposure, nor any money, so why? Why spend time making videos for a very few people who you will never meet?

I don’t like capitalism or monetization, but what you want is a logical impossibility without a funding stream, and I doubt there is one that isn’t problematic to some degree.

Places where independence can thrive are webpages and podcasts–both much cheaper to produce and distribute.

Agree. At least YouTube allows capitalist-hostile small creators a voice; otherwise they’d be relegated to 7-minute segments of RT TV.

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People make youtube videos because it generates income.

PeerTube can’t monetize content and every stored and transmitted bit costs money that has to be donated and the work is unpaid.

It’s like wishing non-fat non-sugar ice cream tasted as good as regular ice cream. Ice cream tastes good because of the fat & the sugar, just as YouTube is good because there’s money coming in and going out.

I used to know a lot of developmentally disabled adults whose viewing habits would be indistinguishable from a ten-year-olds. Wonder how long before a disability challenge comes out; I don’t know what Canada’s disability laws are, but this would attract the interest of an enterprising lawyer under the US’s ADA.

I also wonder if this wouldn’t just encourage kids to start mixing adult content into their feeds, which would kinda be a perverse outcome for a law designed to protect children.

You do kinda have to be a special breed to go against a corporation in a court of “law”. Let them cook.

Oh, looks like I was confused. I thought LineageOS was a Linux based system, but it’s still Android so what I said doesn’t make a ton of sense… but my next attempt at my next phone will be some Linux OS so I can completely get off android. But if I have to stay within the Android ecosystem for whatever reason and don’t have the money for a Pixel (or fucking definitely not a fold), I’ll probably try Lineage.

Lineage OS is the ultimate deGoogle; I’m not comfortable with android at all given the influence Google has over its development.

LineageOS also can run on more phones; current Graphene ONLY runs on Pixels, soon to run on Motorola, but the Graphene hw requirements are HEAVY–only flagship phones have what Graphene requires, and I’m poor.

LineageOS is less secure, though, so I’d be sacrificing that.

Using Graphene, tempted by Lineage.

How is YouTube getting that fingerprint through Invidious, though?

That’s what I’m doing…

Switch away from Google Chrome to [redacted].

Switch away from Google Search to [redacted].

Get a free [redacted] account and start moving accounts.

Use [redacted] instead of Google Maps, discover [redacted] is now owned by Google, buy a fucking atlas. Fuck this timeline.

Next step/shit to figure out:

Move my contacts off of Google.

The Last Thing I’ll Do: Migrate Photos to a self-hosted solution.

Edit: Why is this downvoted? Did you guys follow me from reddit lol

Edit 2: Removed any mention of software that may have offended people.