Also videos from gender criticals. It’s so incredibly upsetting. One thing I’ve noticed is that there is simultaneously a claim that we are being lied to, and yet when trans content creators talk about their surgery complications it’s used as ammunition against us and our care. Which is it? I have always found that trans creators are fully open about the risks and complications that can happen from surgery and yet I still desperately yearn to have it even though I know recovery is going to suck. I have to hear this GC rhetoric from my parents and it breaks my heart. I just want to live my life as the woman I was always meant to be. To grow old and die as a woman. To finally have a chance at happiness. Why do we have to justify our existence? Why can’t they just leave us alone?
YouTube is a fucking dumpster fire of a website and I’m convinced they’re getting right wing billionaire money to push some things and suppress others. Sucks we still don’t have a really good alternative yet.
Video hosting is extremely expensive, and even other well-funded companies have folded trying to replicate YouTube. It’s unfortunately not something that small scale cooperatives are likely to be able to fight back against.
There have been some impressive little tech demos of AI-powered image and sound compression, which could maybe fix the cost problem, but AI-powered compression is just as cursed as it sounds.
I still feel like PeerTube is our best bet, but there’s honestly no getting around the fact that there just isn’t much worthwhile content on PeerTube compared to YouTube; that using PeerTube is still a bit clunky, especially since most server admins as I understand it tend to be very restrictive with federation due to spam issues; and that online video hosting is going to be somewhat costly even if PeerTube has found some ways to reduce the cost.
I sometimes daydream about a fediverse video platform that long story short combines PeerTube with an alternate YouTube frontend like Piped or Invidious, but who knows if or when that’s gonna happen. I’d come up with the name “VennUse” as a pun on “venues” and “Venn diagram”, at least…
So I actually uploaded some stuff to unofficial (or official?) peertube instance tonight and it seems to work pretty well. I now think we could totally make peer tube more of a thing for us, especially since we don’t need to obey copyright laws.
Tankie.tube or which instance?
Yeah, tankie.tube. I ended up putting some Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger on there and it’s working great.