2003: If our privacy and freedoms on the internet are ever in peril, don’t worry, there will be an uprising and our governments and tech corporations will come to our defense.

2025: i did NOT have 4chan will come to our aide on my bingo card…

They don’t just block it, they try to fine the companies first, legal smothering.

ahh give em a bit, most of the first world ones are trying to head that way ;)

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https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/google-wallet

They migrated people over to the wallet. What was shut down was the app called “Google Pay”

Grayjay is trying to address this. Their idea is that you follow creators rather than accounts on sites. I haven’t tried it in a while it was not real good at it last time I tried it but it may be better by now

We need monetization in peertube, and peertube to have community tools like (or exceeding) lemmy.

I think it’s a pretty low bar, but it’s not just going to happen without massive interest

Undeniably he gets more clicks for this. However, would you deny somebody their own soapbox when they’re getting fucked by the system? He is using his leverage to call out the bullshit DMCA system that YouTube has in place which allows anybody to fuck with anybody. And in this case he’s bringing to light a giant Goliath of a company Bloomberg for fucking with his few person team, and for YouTube for making it the default.

I certainly didn’t downvote you.

It’s definitely not a bad idea to look. Rumble is probably the second best option which is why he’s there. But spend about 2 minutes looking around on rumble and it’s like taking your dinner in the sewer. Anti-woke, anti-DEI, crypto, people praising armed military flooding into the streets of peaceful cities. The second most popular channel on there is newsmax which is literally propaganda. His will be able to resonate with the people that are there, But the rest of the content on the site is so edgy that it pushes away the vast majority.

One of the biggest complaints about the platform is the lack of traffic. The ease of use is there, the monetization is there, but the discovery isn’t.

He’s got 935 followers and about 20,000 views there

Rumble only takes half the cut YouTube does, But the amount of traffic on there is microscopic compared to YouTube. There’s some room there to make money.

The vast majority of the content on there is a conservative echo chamber. I’d be a little worried about his ability to maintain journalistic integrity against big companies in that ecosystem. I’m also wondering what their ads look like ;)

assuming they didn’t keep 8K, Just the raw 4k footage from just the wan show for one year would be ~150tb

https://socialblade.com/youtube/handle/gamersnexus

He gets around 750 Million Youtube verified views per month , he’s releasing about 5 hours of content per month.

He’s not self-hosting that cheaply.

His sponsors are giving him the a nice pile of money based on his view count, he’s not going to manage that on his own without the algo pumping users to him. Search engines kind of suck and video bloggers at that scale need organics to keep going.

You can’t add monetization without discoverability and accessibility.

Looking at those numbers, I don’t even know that peertube could handle it, he’d probably need to setup his own cluster to mirror them all.

There’s a reason why we don’t have a lot of competition to YouTube.

LOL, the world may never know.

I’m still not sure which side of that whole thing i’m on. I know he’s less annoying than Linus. But even Billit labs seems to have less hate for LMG than he does :)

It’d be dangerous to his revenue stream.

If he reduces views on YT, the algo will recommend him less. His internal sponsors won’t pay more for the non YT content so he’ll just be gutting his own traffic if it takes off. Assuming he has disks around with all his finished content on it, he could stand it up later if he wanted, but it’s not like Peertube can host an unlimited amount of video for free. Someone is paying for those disks and for the transfer of those bits.

Ideally, he’d stand up his own PT and we’d share in watching his stuff and reduce costs Peer style. But he’s still going to be out a serious payment stream and the PT network can’t just perpetually bare the cost of his storage.

It’s like if LMG wanted to host their back catalog, we’d need peer tube hosts with a PB of storage sitting around ready to take his catalog.

Messy. Youtube could just refuse to serve his videos because they decide they don’t want to :/

They have more lawyers than God, I can’t help but think the contract they all have with Google favors Google to the extreme.

So, there are options.

You have three challenges:

• You need to be discoverable

• you need to be accessible

• you need to monetize

If you just make videos and torrent them, you’re not monetized, you’re not discoverable and you’re not really very accessable to the average person.

Youtube is this nifty one-stop-shop that provides all three to a certain point.

Peertube gives you some discoverability and lots of accessibility, but nothing for monetization.

Odysee gives you a tiny bit of discoverability and lots of accessibility, but almost nothing for monetization.

Floatplane (assuming GN wasn’t feuding with LMG) gives you reasonable monetization and accessibility but almost nothing in discoverability.

edit: cut myself short

I’d like to see some form of partially federated system that works with peertube. I think the platform could scale and we could give youtube a run for their money.

There’s enough room in my heart and head to wish 4chan a nasty departure and also not want the UK to dictate what happens in other countries. If they don’t want people going there they can stop them on their own fucking soil.

For the next probably 5 to 10 years it’s a forgone conclusion. If you just look at the probability of what could happen it would really be an outside chance that things just get better at the next election cycle. Shit had been going downhill for 12 years. Which party gets in just determines how fast we’re pumping the gas.

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