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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • I follow over 1000 creators on YouTube, many of them niche creators who don’t often upload content. There are a very small percentage who are on another platform.

    The main app that I use (Tubular) also supports PeerTube, but PeerTube has a big issue when it comes to both content discovery and delivery. YouTube hosts not only the “full” quality video, but they also host many different versions of the same video at varying resolutions/bitrates. This is unfeasable for basically anyone but a big tech company. YouTube also has a very effective (albeit very flawed) recommendation algorithm that smaller platforms struggle to compete against.


  • I already use those things. My main way of watching YT is with Tubular.

    The problem is that there is one, centralized hosting provider with an all-powerful, non-customizable (by the user) recommendation algorithm. That algorithm, like it or not, dictates the type of content that is made on the platform. If there is content that Google doesn’t like, they can (and have) very easilly shadowban the content, meaning only people who specifically search for it will see it, if not remove it altogether.














  • The media chose to show Trump’s empty rallies in 2016 over Bernie Sanders’s absolutely packed rallies. There were leaked conversations from high up that specifically told pundits not to cover Bernie.

    More recently, the media chose to not take any of Trump’s many, many criminal acts seriously (attempting to overthrow the 2020 election, multiple cases of rape, stealing classified documents to sell to foreign governments, not paying his workers throughout his whole life, no fact checking his many defamatory claims), nor have the media chosen to cover Project 2025 nonstop, as they should be doing.

    You can tell more about the media based on what they choose not to cover more than what they choose to cover.