This is exactly why I could never justify making a serious investment in YouTube, and also why I have stopped spending any time or resources on Twitter too.
It always felt like an impossible gamble. It’s like building a house in a hurricane zone that you KNOW cannot survive a hurricane, and that there is no way to insure. Life might be great, but eventually, and inevitably, a hurricane WILL come and you are just going to lose it all.
It is literally slavery if something you invested years of your life and tens of thousands of hours into can be taken from you by someone else arbitrarily, unilaterally, without recourse, without difficulty, and without even the mildest of concern from the person who can basically destroy your social existence and livelihood.
Everything is ultimately worthless if we don’t have freedom. nostr:note1u2qh3ns7ucnultwhd5h553psy404wn60jthadhgt7dfr934vs00qawypln
Yes. Exactly.
The ban hammer has been a real threat to all creators for some years now. To heavily rely on YouTube is foolish.
My risk aversion to building anything substantial on anything but nostr and nostr enabled platforms has become hard as iron over the last two years.
Odysee.com has an option when create an account that allows you to connect your YouTube account, Odysee then automatically mirrors content you upload to yt. One is none, two is one.
Signed up for Nostr yesterday and was questioning it until I saw this post
TIIIME IS MONEY, NO IT IS NOT!
As a hobbyist numerologist, here's what I think could be the issue:
Because you're not in "the club", you don't get all the fake support that most channels do (the likes of Mr. Beast, for example). The reason for that is simply because you're a normal human being who has skills that you want to share. That's all fine and dandy, but if you're not part of the tribe (DM me for some details), then what's the point?
As I have said in a previous post, I do not care about fame. I care about people becoming tech literate. Nothing more, nothing less.
Agree 💯
Not that I even had an audience on YouTube, but I recently took down all my videos and gave up there. Too many hoops to jump through. And thumbnail culture is gross.
I own and control my website, npub, and mailing list. If I don’t own it, I don’t want to put energy into it.
Agree with your general point but it is not 'literally slavery'. Slavery' is doing forced *directed* labour. On YT you still get to choose what you put yr labour into and how much and at what time, even if the fruits of that labour may be taken away from you later.
Indeed you can't even rely on search because Google could deindex you anytime and you're invisible, it shows the value of protocols, and building on them, your podcast feed can always be accessed, having users emails or sms means you can always reach directly, and now nostr.
NOSTR fixes this
high quality, decentralised video platforms have been around for a long time. Nobody cares about them. Thats the problem. The tech is not the problem. PeerTube Odysee etc couldn't be easier to use, people just don't care about censorship.
nostr does not support video hosting. and 3rd party hosts are as vulnerable as YT and Telegram to censorship requests. Nostr has not solved this.
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