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What you can do, is upvote the article so that eventually some YouTube engineer happens to see it. Not much else to do.

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>>>What you can do

Support Other Video hosting platforms

Advise Creators to upload to multiple Platforms

When Sharing links, if the content it on another platform share that instead of YT

YT stays on top because people refuse to move off it

This is a great idea I can get behind. We need to decentralize away from the major tech platforms in general. Is there an index of all such alternative platforms? I know there’s https://curiositystream.com and am wondering how I discover others like it.

There's a list of alternatives for all Google services here: https://nomoregoogle.com/

https://www.bitchute.com/

You can have it automatically pull content from your YouTube channel to your BitChute channel. Make sure to let your viewers know about it in advance, so when Google pulls the rug out from under you, for no reason, they know where to find your content.

Yeaaahhhh, bitchute is definitely worse having YouTube as a monopoly.

Bitchute is absolutely full of racists, conspiracy theories, and just awful people in general. I wouldn't touch it with a 2m stick.

The problem with Alternative Platforms is they are often first used by people that have been banned by main stream platforms

It is sad we have come to the point that people "will not touch" a platform because there are others on their which they disagree with, or even find offensive.

It is easy to defend the speech of people you agree with, it take someone of strong ethical convictions to understand that in order to actually have free speech, the speech we find offensive must also be permitted.

Much of the original content on YT, that made YT popular would be banned under the terms YT operates under today. If you apply these conditions to potential replacements for YT then no replacements are possible

That's a good sign, actually. Because it means that you'd need to push pretty hard to get banned.

Not necessarily. The platform might just have political biases of its own. But that's also why it can be good to have more variety: it means biases are a lot more likely to cancel out over time.

That's a good point. So yes, diversity is good.

I honestly read that as BitchUte - cultural differences, huh. (A ute is parlance in my country for what Americans call a pickup).

Correct, it would have to be someone going rogue. YouTube does not take action based on content creators publicly making statements.

Policy will change if a newspaper article is written about it though, ironically.

Google's leadership cares greatly about the opinions of the elites around them. Bubble-driven prioritization?

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