@welshpixie I tend to respond to people like this with variants of "you must be fun at parties". But then I also don't get gendered abuse. "Nerd." is also simple yet effective

What @mmn said also, at least in the long term. In the short term double-posting to YT and say a self-hosted MediaGoblin tied to your Mastdon account (so it re-publishes the MG feed or so) could be quite effective and helps bring about the inevitable end of GOOG

@tomas @mmn So saying 'move to blah instead' is fine if you're only after a host and not a community of engagement and opportunity to monetise because you're broke and being able to get some extra money through ad revenue and sponsorships literally helps pay your bills every month. It's not a solution, it's an opt-out for people who have the luxury of choosing that.

@welshpixie Yes and no. Keeping oneself housed and fed will always take priority of course, so opting out entirely is likely not possible (yet). But GOOG and the rest of the centralized Web have shown unwilling to defend basic human decency in favor of blind liberalism and greed. Perhaps I'm too pessimistic though, having been in the trenches for quite some time by this point

As a huge nerd myself I think "nerd" can fill many useful roles, depending on context :) Calling sexists "sexists" doesn't seem to work very well, but "nerd" sure as hell does. At the same time there's less stigma associated with the word compared to the 90's - young people don't seem to get ostracized as much these days for having passion for narrow interests

@tomas yeah, it's definitely a huge and ongoing struggle fighting back against that whole thing. :(

@welshpixie makes me wonder if it would be possible to run a video site as a non-profit

@tomas Yeah, I think there's definitely a space for something like that to exist but (obviously among many other issues) for it to be worthwhile for those people who help earn a living through YT, it'd probably need to have a significant reach, and that'd take a while to get :(