I hate advertisements so much. Whenever a 10 min video is interrupted by a "sponsor segment" it just makes me hate whatever product more and often leads me to just block the channel. I pay for the premium ad free stuff and yet I still can't escape the ads
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@Forbearance It'd be nice if all the weird youtube nerds got enough UBI to just make stuff without having to seek sponsors
@mauve can we seize and redistribute YouTube specifically
@mauve it's kind of the complement to Wikipedia in terms of being where the information required for society to function lives.
@Forbearance It's hard to convince creators to migrate. I think some science channels are migrating to https://curiositystream.com/ which I've been curious to try. Else I think we need to archive channels onto peertube instances. 😅
1. If you just want to publish videos, PeerTube is great!
2. Some people believe they need YouTube for the reach, so that their videos will be discovered by their potential audience; this is something the Fediverse could fulfil in future (or perhaps already, depending on your expected scale).
3. But the hard problem is that some people depend on Google's advert money to make a living. (If Liberapay or Patreon would be enough, you're in category 2 instead and we're back in the race.)
@greytheearthling @Forbearance Yeah, sadly most creators that I know who use the usual corpo social networks fall into category 2. Even when the platforms actively screw their "reach" they're reluctant to try some weird alternative they've never heard of.
@mauve @Forbearance I really hope https://sepiasearch.org will slowly get better and better. It would definately mitigate the fragmentation.