Re:YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut d...
by ekianjo on Thursday July 04, 2019 @06:41AM
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The effort involved in pushing videos to one or two more platforms when you already did to one is close to zero. This is how you start while not leaving YouTube yet and making it possible for the alternative to develop progressively.
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Re:YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut d...
by pbhjpbhj on Thursday July 04, 2019 @09:17AM
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In theory you could make a json file with all the details and push it to 100 content libraries like YouTube/Vevo/Peertube/Facebook/etc. but most of them want to be exclusive, they're not there to host your content, they want your viewers. There's no way they're going to do anything to help democratise that content.
We need to stop feeding the beast.
I'm still convinced that Opera Unite, which fused distributed social + web client + web server, should have been the way forward to make the web truly owned by the people: if social sites were simply caches of content available p2p or through any social site of my choosing (that the content owner allowed) ...