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Ian Forrester | @cubicgardenThere is a lesson in the amount of channels small but valuable community youtube channels closing down. 🤔
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-SJXcdf2dY
In the video, he cites hateful comments and a lot of unfreindly disagreements, once the number of followers increased.
A federated model makes much more sense, a place where bike riders will find it more useful without being pushed a bunch of AI slop? This also seems to fit in the useful archival media, and has more public values?
Heck may it makes more sense on archive.org? 🤔
@fedihost has some interesting points about Youtube and @peertube
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