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  • If the people who produce videos don’t stop, there isn’t much of an alternative other than abstinence.

    At which point, what’s the benefit over using a mirror like invidious which gives you your video, uses up resources of the people you don’t like, and doesn’t harvest your data?

    I wouldn’t use the actual YouTube site, or software clients. But open source mirror/alt clients like invidious, yt-dlp, or newpipe seem like a workable alternative.

    Until people who make videos move the fuck over, most of my subscriptions in newpipe will continue to be YouTube accounts, and not channels hosted on a peertube instance.

    Luckily newpipe works with both… For now.






  • Works for Albania.

    Its not like google fucking earned that money anyways. You don’t earn billions of dollars.

    Think about it. If you earned a million dollars a year, you’d be set for life. If you lived for a full hundred years you’d have only made 1/10th of a billion dollars. Despite the fact that its still more money than either of us will probably ever see.

    The people who operate google have billions with an s at the end. Think about the hardest working person you’ve known. Think about how little money they made.

    Now ask yourself, what did the people with billions do to earn that money? How hard did they have to work to justify it, and how is that level of work even humanly possible? How would a bunch of spoiled overgrown trustfund fratboys find it in themselves do that work?

    They fucking don’t. The only people who get that rich do it by cheating, and stealing, and fucking people over. Those fuckers owe us a lot more than video streaming services.





  • What are you fucking on about lmao? Most channels that run a patreon, use it as their main source of income unless they also sell merch.

    Everyone from giant channels like Linus Media Group, to medium and small-sized ones like Technology Connections, and Cathode Ray Dude.

    I mean pretty much everyone I watch that has talked financials has mentioned how important patron is.

    Some of them like Botgrinder literally for the most part, only make money through patreon because of YT’s restrictive demonetization guidelines. Yet despite the lack of ad-revenue the guy is able to live off of a 50k sub channel where he pretty much smokes weed and flies FPV quads.

    As for FLOSS, that heavily depends the projects. Huge ones used by corporations sure, but who’s footing the bill for newpipe, Yt-dlp, Jellyfin, Pihole, And pretty much every video game emulator ever written? People like you (probably not considering your attitude), and me.


  • This isn’t some magical world, this is how most open source software projects and even online content creators make their money.

    Creators make way fucking more from patron than AdSense, even if its only a percentage of their audience. Do you know how much fucking watch time it would take to match the $5 a month I give to several of my favorite producers of online video?

    A lot more than either your or I have time for, certainly more than the content they create.

    You need only a sliver of your audience to pay, and platforms like patron prove this works.

    The fact you’re baffled by even a small percentage of people donating to gratis projects says a lot about how you value volunteer labor, and its pretty fucking sad.