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As an example, Can you recommend a good tech/hacker video channel that is available somewhere else other than Youtube?

>>mozbal+(OP)
That is why I call for federated publishing tools. Believe it or not I plan on launching such a channel and it will be self-hosted in the 90's meaning of the term. They only way the channel will grow an audience is if it is passed by word of mouth.

The amount of effort that goes in to playing advertising metric games of YouTube is ridiculous to me. Anyone that says well people have to get paid I say maybe.

Real creators create and don't need the like, subscribe, patreon, mantra. Most of the gunsmithing sights on YouTube are moving towards this idea.

I don't believe in the discovery myth so many talk about as essential. It is only essential if you need inorganic growth.

I would say it's an emerging trend and that the more they tighten their grip the more creators will slip through their fingers.

>>mozbal+(OP)
Arent everyday astronaught, practical engineering and tom Scott available on their own websites?

>>mozbal+(OP)
Do Channels on Nebula count? Since Nebula is paid only, ads free and creator owned (as far as I understand), it might be the one prime example of a video platform not incentivized to restrict access to only consumers using proprietary, big tech OSes.

>>concor+V3
I visited Practical engineering and tom scott's websites and AFAI seen they embed youtube videos in their websites. I couldn't find astronaught's website. Its not even linked to in his youtube channel.

>>Stammo+Y4
I would say so.

>>mozbal+e5
He has article versions of his videos which you can find linked in the description of his YouTube videos. The videos on his website are just linked to YouTube however.

>>mozbal+(OP)
Not an answer but your question has me curious now. I'm not old but I've got a particular worldview that could use an update. Why video? Aside from entertainment or live collaboration, I've never found video compelling for productivity.

Reliable machinery always has a shop manual, diagrams and prints. Programming languages have tomes of documentation, computing infrastructure has man pages and volumes of commentary, scholarship and trouble shooting have been committed to characters.

Aside from the point and grunt visuals, solid presentations (viewed after the fact when the value of real time interaction is gone) work fine as text.

If you're dyslexic, I get it but TTS systems are extremely solid these days.

What is the point?

>>korse+pQ
Unfortunately we live in a time where the majority of people are practicing illiteracy.