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In the same boat. Besides other problems NewPipe hasn't worked ever since the last 2 months, and honestly, I'm tired of chasing for different solutions.
I saw it coming and tried to work on my habits over the past year. Slowly reducing watchtime and cutting down the number of channels in general. It helps a lot. Also moved everything music related to other platforms.
I now gave Odysee a go as I feel its a very familiar experience. But it's a disaster especially if I take a look at content in my native language. I'm happy with the few tech channels on there however, it will keep me afloat for a while if I have a particularily bad day and need to watch some stuff to regulate my feelings. So I'd also be interested in channel recommendations on other platforms and the like.
I was wondering if it wouldn't be more important to take action at this point. You know, this could be a controversial topic, but I was thinking about some uniform text that everyone could use to send to their favourite content creators, informing about the situation and asking them to at least consider mirroring content to other platforms or move elsewhere. idk, just an idea. maybe it's a starting point for further discussion on how to solve this mess.
Maybe it seems weird to do sth like this but in the end, it's still YouTube, things tend to spread pretty quickly on there and I guess a few creators are very aware of whats going on already. So why not try. If all those still cling to this platforms, idk if things will ever change.YouTube will be happy to have those voices leave the platform anyway, pretty sure about that. But I thought more of the effect it might have if a certain crowd just decides to leave the platform.
The other thing, I know, money issues. It's not an easy and quick thing to move a viewer base to a different platform, especially if you have the comfort of having a somewhat regular income on the other. We need to talk about solutions for this as well. And we need to ask ourselves the question how much we are willing to sacrifice in this process.
I guess what it all boils down to is: there's other questions we need to ask ourselves now instead of just thinking about the next best solution on how we are able to consume free content again. And yes, I have a hard time with that myself.
We need more discussion, ideas, solutions, and some brains that can implement those ideas by creating the spaces we need. It's all so difficult and so much to navigate.
sorry if this went a bit off-topic. hope you have a great day :)
I think the only real path forward is for a developer to figure out a way to decentralize video hosting. The future of the free internet is decentralization. We've seen which way the wind blows when platforms are centralized.
Consumer storage is abundant and cheap as hell. There will need to be incentives for: 1. Creators 2. Node hosters 3. Moderators. Potentially AI could do the heavy lifting on number 3. Figuring out a way to avoid ad based revenue would be another hurdle. In an ideal world, creators would accept that only 10% of their viewers would contribute to them monetarily (through patreon or donations) and use the platform for its freedom from corpo bullshit.
But as much as the Foss and decentralized crowd has been growing, I think we're still a long way out from average people becoming fed up enough to care. I still get eye rolls from everybody I know IRL when I try to get them to open an invidious link.
Is it really? For hosting your content, sure. But once you stand up a public instance, I can imagine storage costs would climb pretty quickly.