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by yusi-san 2542 days ago
>I hope the infosec community can come up with some kind of decentralized way to actually share free speech. If anyone is capable, they are.

There are decentralized/open/ethic friendly services alternative to big corporations services. In the case of Youtube there's PeerTube[1] for exemple (even if in that case there's a IP leak due to the p2p protocol if I remember correctly).

The sad thing here is that people decide to stay on the "big" services due to the network effect, and few people decide to boycott them just to follow principles.

[1]https://joinpeertube.org/

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In some video sectors people issue "preview" videos on YouTube (for discovery, network effect) and have a full video elsewhere that doesn't have to comply with YouTube's terms.

That would probably work here until YouTube move on to "can't signpost content that's not allowed here".

This approach implies that YouTube actually pays attention to the details of their terms, rather than just using wide sweeping keyword filters.
It seems to work in the sector I was thinking of (lewd ASMR).

I guess if YouTube blocks content by keywords we'll need to get creative with the thesaurus or ROT13.

This is why we need a solution that separates the social network from the storage platform. Maybe as a first step, have a system that combines your peertube, bitchute and youtube accounts together, like a semi-rss feed. Maybe you should be able to use your google account on the alternate platforms. Google won't like such adversarial compatibility, but if done client side there won't be much they can do.