Do you think that trying to create free speech alternatives to stuff like twitter, youtube, ect. is viable? Advertising is basically impossible, so there goes your primary source of revenue, and you cant run a social media site on patreon funds, let alone something like a streaming service. What's left?
Creating free speech platforms:
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Isn't social media only up and running because it's being propped up by VC?
Didn't the real internet think social media was retarded before it attracted all the normie newfags and ruined the internet?
The problem isn't the ideology of people who create closed platforms, it's the closed platforms themselves.
Can you imagine if e-mail were invented in 2008? You'd have to sign up for Facemail, you could only e-mail someone else if they had a Facemail account too, and all the while Zuckerberg would be leafing through your e-mails looking for advertising leads.
Closed platforms are the problem. Standards and open protocols are the solution. No one can censor your Tweets when they are being broadcast from a server in your closet.
costs keep dropping
bitchute has a good idea of using P2P to help with bandwidth
the poor prospects for ad revenue is definitely a downside, but a lot of content creators already are being forced to move away from pure ad revenue due to all the ad blockers, fraud, and Google/Facebook taking such a big cut
plenty of "big" youtubers have patreons now
a Patreon clone is relatively easy and Hatreon seems to be capitalizing off of the recent censorship
I don't think that it's necessary to become a direct competitor to these tech giants, just have any sustainable network that normies can access
Well bitchute uses torrenting so the data isn't stored by the site so the overhead is nearly zero.
You bastards have no idea how deep this runs. Racist websites are being removed. Sup Forums is next. You will not be allowed this sanctuary of hate.
I didn't know in-browser torrenting was possible. If this works reliably that sounds fucking awesome.
There was once a project called GNU Social, which seems to be failing now, but the idea was interesting: basically an open-source platform anyone could install on their own hosting account. I believe installations networked with each other (not sure if centralized or decentralized).
One solution could be to make the software openly available so that everyone can easily go from one platform to another. Turns censorship into a game of whack-a-mole.
Every time one of these threads comes up I always suggest BitChute, the more people that use it the better it will perform.
As far as I can tell, it uses a mix of centralized data and P2P. If you stumble across some obscure video that no one else is watching, it gets pulled and delivered from a centralized location - but on videos with multiple viewers it "slides" more and more over to P2P until their servers don't even have to deliver it anymore and it's completely peer based sharing. This saves a LOT of money for BitChute and will let them expand quickly. I would suggest everyone makes an account there to show support. As an alternative, people can continue to say how much they hate Youtube and then not doing anything about it.