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What is the suggested alternative for hosting serious video content? Vimeo? PeerTube? BitChute? Some other video hosting platform that is either entirely a ghos

• gamacodre 5y ago
  My guess would be that a "platform" for serious video content could not be financially viable on today's internet. It would need be able to alienate advertisers over points of principle, effectively argue those same points with regulators, and field an army of capable moderators. It would probably end up looking more like a public-interest media company than a video-sharing site. Discovering an algorithm to govern on-site activity by the general public that doesn't lift the scum to the top could be a decent start.
• MilnerRoute 5y ago
  I have a server. I can upload video to my server. That was sort of the whole promise of the web... YouTube made it so easy to upload video to their site instead that vast swaths of the population now seem to have forgotten that you can also upload video to your own site. If a medical researcher has something to say: they could upload it to their university's site, or to their own personal site, or to the web site of whatever conference they want to present their talk at. Upload it to their blog, and then share the post's URL... YouTube's policies deserve scrutiny and probably criticism. But I think it's a dead-end argument to say that mistakes in YouTube's policies can entirely stop a video from being disseminated online.