YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
Twitter and reddit have externally hosted media, so they consist of mostly text which is easy to host. YouTube has a lot more data to deal with, a federated alternative wouldn’t be feasible for literal petabytes of it.
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Seems fair enough, I’ve personally been freeloading for a while. Youtube is irreplacable, so there’s not much we can do.
I’ve started using Mastodon after the Twitter changes, Lemmy after the Reddit changes, I don’t think any website is irreplaceable
Twitter and reddit have externally hosted media, so they consist of mostly text which is easy to host. YouTube has a lot more data to deal with, a federated alternative wouldn’t be feasible for literal petabytes of it.
It would have be basically torrent hosted
Haave you met revanced.app, and invidious.io?