Leander Lindahl6d ago

I'm surprised every time I see people posting YouTube videos on Mastodon. I keep forgetting it's not a commonly entertained notion that algorithmic, manipulative billionaire media should be avoided.

YouTube is not a public utility, even if people, incl government agencies, like to pretend it is. (Great job with the lobbying). It's a money machine for foreign billionaires with questionable ideology and the power, through their algorithms, to decide what our world view will be.

#degoogle

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@leanderlindahl I think you are not wrong, but not every video maker has terabytes or tebibytes 😉 of storage to host their own videos and backup them too. So its not optimal, but videos are a expensive storage hungry media. And we don't even look here on the income generating element for the creators.

But absolutly would it be nice, if it would be more decentralized and it wouldn't be one defacto monopol.

Jun 6 at 10:08pmWeb