I follow RSS for The Linux Cast, The Linux Experiment, and that one from jupiter broadcasting that I can’t remember the name of.
The trouble with leaving youtube is that viewers go where the content is, and creators go where the viewers are, which is youtube in both cases. Other platforms will only get dedicated fans and people that just really hate youtube. It is a chicken and egg problem where we still don’t have an answer to what comes first to other platforms, creators or viewers.
I think this has multiple angles from which it can be observed. Some creators don’t have a job and rely on YouTube and Sponsorship money to survive. I am fairly certain that The Linux Experiment lives off of his channel. I don’t follow him closely so take my statement with some reservation. However, Veronica Explains has also made a video announcement that she quit her Cobol job roughly when she had 50k YT subscribers. I am not sure where she is at right now, regarding money, but it is a fact of life that everyone needs money in order to survive. YouTube is roughly the best at that: providing creators with some money and a lot of opportunity to earn from sponsors). Rumble is trying to emulate that, as I understand it, but it appears to be a vastly smaller platform to which you can only move AFTER you have a very large and faithful following base. Meaning that starting-out as nobody on Rumble will get you precisely there: nowhere, in my opinion. Odysee used to offer fan-powered monetisation until last week. I once got tipped by a person who was grateful for my video. Subscriptions used to work for American creators only so I never managed to test that. But all this monetisation is now completely gone from Odysee and we now only have cryptocurrency, and it’s not even a mainstream one, but rather something specific to Odysee owner company so I am not even sure if I can exchange that for anything. PeerTube, by its nature, offers no monetisation system other than providing a link to your prefered tipping platform such as Ko-fi or whatever. Which is a “feature” of all other video platforms as well.
The problem with both Odysee and Rumble is as @LeeTalbert said: chicken and egg.
The problem with PeerTube is that nobody cares. It’s more like a personal backup system, of sorts, as pretty much everyone self-hosts anyway. And self-hosting means weak discovery becuase even with Framasoft PeerTube search engine (Sepia) there is low chance that people are actually using it to find someone to watch. And once enough time passes with low-to-no success, creators tend to stop “wasting time” on PeerTube. But there is some light, as the whole things matures bit-by-bit and eventually people will understand how it works. They recently released a mobile app that features no login mechanism, so I guess that’s nice for phone-addicted users such as myself. But I prefer to watch via mobile web browser as I want to be able to leave a reply on a video.
So creators who don’t rely on YouTube money specifically will usually have no issue publishing on multiple platforms, depending on how time-consuming the procedure is. I, for example, wish to teach people. And for that goal it does not matter which platform these people come from.
Sorry #NotSorry for the essay.
This is probably the best new idea I have seen come out of the problem you just described. I have no idea what the costs are to people that create content, but they are trying to solve the problem.
Fans of Rossmann know exactly what that is.
oh, they have a desktop app now. nice.
I am trying to ‘purge’ my life of Google- and Microsoft-related products, this is a good resource!
The only ones I don’t yet follow are Linux Out Loud, Veronica Explains and Graya Overload.
This is my goal as well.
Google is going to enable even deeper tracking metrics on its user base coming up here in March I believe.
I need to get more active on working on that purge, changing emails, etc.
Wow, thank you for this article. It’s good to know what is going to happen. It’s not hard to switch away from Google/ Microsoft. It just takes some time–and money depending on what email service you want to use. I ended up opting for a paid service. Zohomail is very good and cheap, too. If you’re in Europe, they are GDPR compliant. And if you know how to use encryption in Thunderbird, it is super easy. And it’s fun to set up, lol. Here’s a good guide:
I chose Tutanota a few years back. Paying for an email for myself and my wife. ~ $35 / year per email (and that now includes storage as well)
I was considering this, as well:
Check this out, tell me what you think.
I use Tutanota, as well. I think they are the best for email privacy, security, and encryption. Plus, they continue to get better over time. I also use firefox relay to generate random aliases for signups and services. Of course, at that point, you have to start using a password manager (keepassXC) to keep track of everything.
I’ve been happy with Bitwarden for that. Their yearly fee is more than reasonable.
Absolutely, very reasonable. I’ve been very happy with Bitwarden before. I just ended up wanting something not in the cloud at all. I just save my password database in a folder that syncthing moves to my various devices. Plus, you can have KeepassXC set to backup the database whenever there is a change. It’s nice. But Bitwarden is great. It’s a lot easier to use with the browser extension, too (keepassxc works with a browser extension, as well, but it doesn’t play nice with flatpaks).
One thing that is often difficult for folks is to get people to STOP E-MAILING YOU at your old address, lol. But you can actually get google to help with that by sending automatic replies wonce you’re set up somewhere else:
or
Once you get that set up, you can have it permanently send people (that are in your address book) to send you emails at your other email. It’s a nice way of automating the process.
What do I do about android? None of the other ROMs support my phone.
Mmm. I’ve been there. Sad to say, if that’s the situation, the answer is either buy another android that you can flash (I’ve done that a bunch for myself and other people), or just use your phone as little as possible for personal things. It depends on how invested you want to be in your own rights and privacy.
I broke down and bought an open box Pixel Fold and put GrapheneOS on it. Open box so Google doesn’t make more money on what they already sold. I recommend a second hand electronics store or pawn shop. Support local business if you can.
Exactly, great advice. That’s what I’ve done. Plus, grapheneos is SO easy to get flashed, assuming you’ve gotten the right phone.
Install a service like shizuku and canta
You can find both of these on alternative application stores like NeoStore
Make sure you are NOT SIGNED IN to your Google account on your phone.