Also Microsoft, Apple, Meta all for collection complying with the regime. It’ll be funny if it’s what brings MySpace back.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I fully expect Google to comply. Thankfully, the only service of theirs that I use is Youtube.
If a civil war happens, I think a side effect is that Google’s domination over video platforms would be over. People would end up flocking towards the ones that aren’t in service to the Regime.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Use a YouTube frontend. Don’t give them any ad revenue. Make it cost them money to service you.
Bazoogle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But maybe directly support the creators you watch. They shouldn’t also suffer because of Google
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Nah.
So sick of “creators” and “content”.
People used to make videos for fun. Choosing to be on YouTube for money is so stupid. They have no contract.
The only way to get them to move on is not supporting them, on YouTube.
I say this as a Nebula subscriber and direct payment to a few entertainers I like. But they are not on youtube.
Bazoogle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Choosing to be on YouTube for money is so stupid. They have no contract.
Most people are not choosing to be on youtube for money. They are on youtube to make videos, because they enjoy making videos. However, they need money to survive. If I like their content, and want them to make more content, then they need money. Otherwise they have to spend less time making videos and more time making money by some other contractual means.
The only way to get them to move on is not supporting them, on YouTube.
You believe people making videos on youtube should move on and do, idk, real work or something? However, if that person has an audience that enjoys watching their videos, they very clearly want them to keep making videos. Them “moving on” would be the exact opposite of what they want.
If you’re under the impression that they could move to a non Google owned video streaming platform, there is no real option. People could make their own websites for their own videos, but viewers are not going to go to a hundred different websites. Not everyone’s content fits Nebula’s platform. There is no platform that can host videos in the same way YouTube can. Maybe one day peer tube will be good enough that we can realistically use that to spread the load of video hosting, but we are not there yet.
To suggest that YouTubers need to move on is truly wild. Especially given Nebula is made up of YouTubers.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That’s fair. I’ve been meaning to set up patreon donations to the handful of creators I still watch. Thanks for reminding me.
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Please don’t use official YouTube clients
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’m more worried about people email, search, and location history being used against them.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Auli@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
YouTube lose would be a blow. All the knowledge there that would be lost is massive. And nobody is going to replace it.
jason@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
It doesn’t seem to be as well known, but YouTube is one of the biggest distributors of blatant disinformation, and they have done fuck all about it. There are so many individual right wing disinformation channels that wield so much more power than they should. It’s so fuckin insidious. Seriously, go find one of the alt-right YouTube accounts, and just look at the comments. Not a single one will be negative. They literally police their comments, and the only thing left is sycophantic bullshit like “thank you for exposing the truth!” It’s actually disgusting. Every YouTuber can essentially build their very own echo chamber, and they do.
I know YouTube comments should generally be ignored, but when you see something that is intentionally, blatantly misleading, a single sentence comment could be all that is required to pierce the veil. It’s axiomatic at this point that their bullshit doesn’t stand up against even surface level scrutiny.
Google could combat this with little to no effort. Put a flag next the username. Display the number of manually deleted comments. Done. But they won’t. Fuck youtube. Fuck Google. They are perfectly happy to lead the charge into fascism.
CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s not just political disinformation. Watch a few how to videos on something you know a lot about. You’ll find the same wrong information repeated over and over.
All of these ‘content creators’ are really just ‘regurgitationists’.
If you want to know how to do something wrong, watch a you tube tutorial.
jason@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
They are very similar in that, even if there comments point out the obvious flaws in the information, they will never correct the record. Because they never gave a shit in the first place.
You’re not wrong, but I haven’t seen these channels actively policing their comments. They’re just pushing garbage and playing the algorithm.
These political hacks are actively malicious because logic and reasoning goes against their brand.
hector@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Plus they all stroke each other off, like praise each other really obviously to the point they should be embarrassed. They have no respect for their audiences. Like joe rogan, his guests and him fall over themselves praising each other transparently.
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No knowledge would be lost. Books exist, other video platforms exist too. Fuck YT, fuck Google
hoppolito@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
While I think I agree with your geneal stance, I also believe ‘no knowledge is lost’ is pure hyperbole.
Aside from many different quasi-documentaries, video essayists and slice-of-life bloggers (whose content is surely backed up on other platforms or by data hoarders) the sheer amount of tacit knowledge of small computer/electronics/hardware repairs and similar, especially in smaller channels, is in no way either ‘not knowledge’ or not ‘lost’ should the platform go up in flames tomorrow.
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Before YouTube, people used to share knowledge of how to do shit with computers/electronics/everything on forums. I still go and find info on those forums more often than on YouTube. Nothing would be lost is perhaps a slight over exaggeration, but not a hyperbole.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
At this point, the platform has started to morph into a shitty TikTok copy and I hate it so much…ruined a good thing they had.
knightly@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Save everything you want to keep
Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
What fools we’ve been, thinking we could televise the revolution on a corporate monopolist video platform, where ultimately they have absolute control over. Even bigger fools we’ve been, pinning our emancipatory power hopes to our labour?
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Would it be lost? Do people upload but not keep copies? I barely look at YouTube at all anymore. I could do without it.