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What you can do, is upvote the article so that eventually some YouTube engineer happens to see it. Not much else to do.

by aritmo 7y ago

syshum 7y ago
>>>What you can do Support Other Video hosting platforms Advise Creators to upload to multiple Platforms When Sharing links, if the content it on another platform share that instead of YT YT stays on top because people refuse to move off it
- throwawaysea 7y ago
  This is a great idea I can get behind. We need to decentralize away from the major tech platforms in general. Is there an index of all such alternative platforms? I know there’s https://curiositystream.com https://curiositystream.com and am wondering how I discover others like it.
  - worble 7y ago
    There's a list of alternatives for all Google services here: https://nomoregoogle.com/ https://nomoregoogle.com/
- encom 7y ago
  https://www.bitchute.com/ https://www.bitchute.com/ You can have it automatically pull content from your YouTube channel to your BitChute channel. Make sure to let your viewers know about it in advance, so when Google pulls the rug out from under you, for no reason, they know where to find your content.
  - reportingsjr 7y ago
    Yeaaahhhh, bitchute is definitely worse having YouTube as a monopoly. Bitchute is absolutely full of racists, conspiracy theories, and just awful people in general. I wouldn't touch it with a 2m stick.
    - zozbot234 7y ago
      Well, you know the drill. First they came for the racists and conspiracy theorists...
      - FridgeSeal 7y ago
        ... and nobody complained, because most people don’t actually enjoy having to put up with racists.
    - syshum 7y ago
      The problem with Alternative Platforms is they are often first used by people that have been banned by main stream platforms It is sad we have come to the point that people "will not touch" a platform because there are others on their which they disagree with, or even find offensive. It is easy to defend the speech of people you agree with, it take someone of strong ethical convictions to understand that in order to actually have free speech, the speech we find offensive must also be permitted. Much of the original content on YT, that made YT popular would be banned under the terms YT operates under today. If you apply these conditions to potential replacements for YT then no replacements are possible
    - mirimir 7y ago
      That's a good sign, actually. Because it means that you'd need to push pretty hard to get banned.
      - zozbot234 7y ago
        Not necessarily. The platform might just have political biases of its own. But that's also why it can be good to have more variety: it means biases are a lot more likely to cancel out over time.
        mirimir 7y ago
        That's a good point. So yes, diversity is good.
  - EdwardDiego 7y ago
    I honestly read that as BitchUte - cultural differences, huh. (A ute is parlance in my country for what Americans call a pickup).
tehwebguy 7y ago
Correct, it would have to be someone going rogue. YouTube does not take action based on content creators publicly making statements. Policy will change if a newspaper article is written about it though, ironically.
- Fellshard 7y ago
  Google's leadership cares greatly about the opinions of the elites around them. Bubble-driven prioritization?

What you can do, is upvote the article so that eventually some YouTube engineer happens to see it. Not much else to do.

by aritmo 7y ago

What you can do, is upvote the article so that eventually some YouTube engineer happens to see it. Not much else to do.

>>>What you can do Support Other Video hosting platforms Advise Creators to upload to multiple Platforms When Sharing links, if the content it on another platform share that instead of YT YT stays on top because people refuse to move off it

throwawaysea 7y ago
This is a great idea I can get behind. We need to decentralize away from the major tech platforms in general. Is there an index of all such alternative platforms? I know there’s https://curiositystream.com https://curiositystream.com and am wondering how I discover others like it.
- worble 7y ago
  There's a list of alternatives for all Google services here: https://nomoregoogle.com/ https://nomoregoogle.com/
encom 7y ago
https://www.bitchute.com/ https://www.bitchute.com/ You can have it automatically pull content from your YouTube channel to your BitChute channel. Make sure to let your viewers know about it in advance, so when Google pulls the rug out from under you, for no reason, they know where to find your content.
- reportingsjr 7y ago
  Yeaaahhhh, bitchute is definitely worse having YouTube as a monopoly. Bitchute is absolutely full of racists, conspiracy theories, and just awful people in general. I wouldn't touch it with a 2m stick.
  - zozbot234 7y ago
    Well, you know the drill. First they came for the racists and conspiracy theorists...
    - FridgeSeal 7y ago
      ... and nobody complained, because most people don’t actually enjoy having to put up with racists.
  - syshum 7y ago
    The problem with Alternative Platforms is they are often first used by people that have been banned by main stream platforms It is sad we have come to the point that people "will not touch" a platform because there are others on their which they disagree with, or even find offensive. It is easy to defend the speech of people you agree with, it take someone of strong ethical convictions to understand that in order to actually have free speech, the speech we find offensive must also be permitted. Much of the original content on YT, that made YT popular would be banned under the terms YT operates under today. If you apply these conditions to potential replacements for YT then no replacements are possible
  - mirimir 7y ago
    That's a good sign, actually. Because it means that you'd need to push pretty hard to get banned.
    - zozbot234 7y ago
      Not necessarily. The platform might just have political biases of its own. But that's also why it can be good to have more variety: it means biases are a lot more likely to cancel out over time.
      - mirimir 7y ago
        That's a good point. So yes, diversity is good.
- EdwardDiego 7y ago
  I honestly read that as BitchUte - cultural differences, huh. (A ute is parlance in my country for what Americans call a pickup).

tehwebguy 7y ago

Correct, it would have to be someone going rogue. YouTube does not take action based on content creators publicly making statements. Policy will change if a newspaper article is written about it though, ironically.

Fellshard 7y ago
Google's leadership cares greatly about the opinions of the elites around them. Bubble-driven prioritization?