@thatguyoverthere They are promoting freedom, not enforcing it. For example, there is Proton, they provide privacy-oriented email and all that shit. Going all the way would mean hosting your own email-server — but not everyone is up to it, at least not from the get go. So I think they still do a good job even developing these Android and iOS apps, doing web stuff that works only in Bromide and Firefox.
Same here — posting on Gemini is nice, but it won't attract new people 🤷
@charliebrownau
@thatguyoverthere You are probably right about hosting on alternative platforms, but look, do people, who know of alternative platforms really want those videos? I think they are interested in other content anyway.
A mirror on more privacy-respecting platform — why not, but deleting all the content — I don't know…
@charliebrownau
@charliebrownau
Half measures anyway. Burning down Googleplex (or whatever name of their lair nowadays is) with everyone inside and all their datacenters — now we're playing! 😈
@thatguyoverthere
@charliebrownau
Don't worry, it was just a joke.
My original point was that it's pointless, posting videos about importance of privacy on privacy-respecting platform, people who use it already know all this, to spread the world, you have to go to *their* world.
@thatguyoverthere
@thatguyoverthere As for avoiding YouTube in general — I completely agree, even when there were no privacy-oriented platforms, there was Vimeo and I think more people should've used that. YouTube just happened at the right time, Google themselves failed to build a competing platform with GoogleVideo and had to go for acquisition until it was too late.
Among other things, YouTube has the largest user base and offers free promotion just for being there, a lot of people like it 🤷
@charliebrownau