4d ago

PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google

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How can he be done with Google and still posting YouTube videos?
- Sure, but other platforms do exist, and he could post to those as well as YouTube. Other creators do, such as Gardiner Bryant to PeerTube and Louis Rossmann to Odyssee.
  If he really hated Google, wouldn't he be motivated to invest his time into its competitors? Maybe he does, idk, I didn't watch the video because I'm not a fan of his style and I generally try to avoid YouTube.
  
  don't make me tap the meme again
- watch the video and you will find out wink
  
  I prefer not to use youtube
  
  Figure it out then
  
  I don’t care if enough so I would, I just found this amusing
  
  invideous and similar can be used
  
  freetube, invideous, if someone reuploads it somewhere on peertube, ytdlp, ytfzf, etc many ways to consume youtube content without google making a dime of you or tracking you. I'm lazy so I just use freetube.
  
  Me too, but I make exceptions for a good content.
  
  Same, but this isn't that, so I won't bother.
  
  then don't ask questions you can find out in other comments.
- Because YouTube has a monopoly for the most part
  
  Sure, but other platforms do exist, and he could post to those as well as YouTube. Other creators do, such as Gardiner Bryant to PeerTube and Louis Rossmann to Odyssee.
  
  I'm not sure how they would scale
  Also avoid Odyssee unless you are a nazis
  
  People keep saying they want an alternative to YouTube, but then reject every alternative that exists.
  Odyssee and other YouTube alternatives tend to host far right content because that content was banned on YouTube, so those creators flocked to the alternative platforms. The sites themselves aren't exactly encouraging that content, it's just where people end up due to the loose rules. The best way to fight extremism on an alternative platform is to post less extreme content and drown out the less desirable content.
  That's basically what happened here on Lemmy. At the start, it was mostly tankies and far left extremists, and gradually it became more mainstream as more mainstream leftists ditched Reddit and joined Lemmy.
  If you want an alternative to YouTube to succeed, you need to use alternative platforms that already exist.
  
  In the case of Odyssee it was founded by a far right extremest. It also isn't decentralized at all so you can't easily stand up a different instance.
  
  I assume you're talking about Kauffman, who is the founder of LBRY, but that relationship ended when LBRY lost a lawsuit and Odysee was acquired. It is decentralized, using arweave for video hosting and a blockchain for video metadata.
  The main issue w/ Odysee is its near complete lack of moderation, which allows extremists, conspiracy theorists, and other undesirables to earn money. This is because Odysee gives creators the power to moderate their channels, unlike YouTube where most of that is reserved for the platform itself. Odysee is about as free-speech as you get, and that unfortunately allows less desirable content.
  My understanding is that Odysee is essentially what you get if you have P2P (not federated) PeerTube w/ a profit motive.
- Literally his income source
  
  I understand why he doesn't leave youtube but why not reposts on alternatives for people who want to limit the use of youtube
  
  He probably would. He's on his foss arc. Give him some time.
  
  If he did the alternative would be instantly crushed

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