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I loathe the way Youtube is this big gatekeeper and can make arbitrary decisions on what is/isn't allowed. We need to build alternatives to Youtube which are no
by octosphere 7y ago
I loathe the way Youtube is this big gatekeeper and can make arbitrary decisions on what is/isn't allowed. We need to build alternatives to Youtube which are not subject to arbitrary interference.
- scohesc 7y agoI don't even think it's Youtube. It's the advertisers dictating what should and shouldn't be in videos, and I think Youtube is being a bit over-zealous in marking these keywords. But of course it's """""the algorithms fault""""". Maybe if this algorithm isn't doing it's job properly and you can't think of (or afford) other methods to administrate your content, you shouldn't be able to host it in the first place.
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- VikingCoder 7y ago> you shouldn't be able to host it in the first place. This is seriously your argument? What are you even saying, that laws should exist that say that if youtube can't perfectly accurately categorize the 300 hours of video that are uploaded every minute, then youtube should be barred from hosting any videos?
- bonerman69 7y agoYes!
- VikingCoder 7y agoRespectfully, that's loony-tunes. We have a First Amendment for a reason. People should be able to offer services with a contract. Government shouldn't intervene like you describe.
- bonerman69 7y agoThey should be required to pay Facebook's contracted moderators to moderate their videos. I trust Zuckerberg exclusively.
- bonerman69 7y agoPurging the conservatives/nazis would be a great start.
- whenchamenia 7y agoYeah, sure, lets "purge" unpopular minorities. That won't somehow backfire. /s
- bonerman69 7y agoAlmost worked last election.. Only once purged can you reliably shift the Overton window.
- bonerman69 7y agoHonestly, they'll just keep debunking everything. Control of the narrative requires control of the media... Obviously.
- beamatronic 7y agoYou could almost think of say, reddit, as a crowdsourced index bolted onto the front of YouTube. In other words don’t use YouTube itself for discovery, use specific subreddits for initial discovery. Edit: I left out the part where you could probably add monetizatuon outside of YouTube
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- UserIsUnused 7y agoReddit is not fully crowdsourced. Not every upvote is equal, and the algorithm that rules those is closed.
- Mathnerd314 7y agoThere are alternatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_hosting_services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_hosting_services. The issue is that those platforms don't pay much of anything either.
- goodoldneon 7y agoThat sounds good in theory, but I'd bet a free speech alternative to YouTube would become a hotbed for hate.
- frogpelt 7y agoThat's what things like Patreon are for. It's a third party monetization platform.
- sergiotapia 7y agoUntil you get deplatformed like Gab did by payment processors, hosting providers, cdns and more. What can we do to mitigate these gatekeepers?