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If you're interested in reaching out the mainstream public to increase its exposure to a topic you care about, there's no way around YouTube and the like It's

If you're interested in reaching out the mainstream public to increase its exposure to a topic you care about, there's no way around YouTube and the like It's obviously and evidently not about uploading videos, but rather to build and reach a community Also, it's wrong to accept that these platforms have this kind of influence and we should just avoid them. They're part of the social fabric of our time, and it's our duty to make things better.

grumple 6y ago
> If you're interested in reaching out the mainstream public to increase its exposure to a topic you care about, there's no way around YouTube and the like Is this true? There's almost no discoverability on YouTube imo. You could just push people towards your privately hosted platforms.
enriquto 6y ago
> If you're interested in reaching out the mainstream public to increase its exposure to a topic you care about, there's no way around YouTube and the like This kind of attitude only serves to entrench the problem and make everything worse. Even if you are not personally affected by youtube's damaging policies, just using the platform is an insulting lack of respect towards other people who are. What ever happened to "be the change you want to see in the world"? Any such change must be led by knowledgeable people like this security researcher. I hope that this ban serves Sun Knudsen (who already publishes their videos on peertube) to lead more and more people out of this and other user-hostile platforms, until these platforms finally turn into a cesspool of content-free "influencers".
zentiggr 6y ago
I see that "duty" as avoiding using YouTube and encouraging others to do so as well, until YouTube goes the way of MySpace and Yahoo and every other service that's lost their way. Eventually even Google in general. MySpace was part of the social fabric, too, at one point. No one is too big to fail or at least become irrelevant. No one is sacred.

grumple 6y ago

> If you're interested in reaching out the mainstream public to increase its exposure to a topic you care about, there's no way around YouTube and the like Is this true? There's almost no discoverability on YouTube imo. You could just push people towards your privately hosted platforms.

enriquto 6y ago

> If you're interested in reaching out the mainstream public to increase its exposure to a topic you care about, there's no way around YouTube and the like This kind of attitude only serves to entrench the problem and make everything worse. Even if you are not personally affected by youtube's damaging policies, just using the platform is an insulting lack of respect towards other people who are. What ever happened to "be the change you want to see in the world"? Any such change must be led by knowledgeable people like this security researcher. I hope that this ban serves Sun Knudsen (who already publishes their videos on peertube) to lead more and more people out of this and other user-hostile platforms, until these platforms finally turn into a cesspool of content-free "influencers".

zentiggr 6y ago

I see that "duty" as avoiding using YouTube and encouraging others to do so as well, until YouTube goes the way of MySpace and Yahoo and every other service that's lost their way. Eventually even Google in general. MySpace was part of the social fabric, too, at one point. No one is too big to fail or at least become irrelevant. No one is sacred.