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by ls15
1307 days ago
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> (none of these are perfect, but they're in most cases better than doing nothing) While they are helpful for avoiding deeper damage, I would summarize them with "Playing with fire without getting burned (probably)", while none of them do what is actually needed in order to fix the situation permanently: "Stop feeding the beast" |
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You are free to use third party app stores... and have basically no income because very few people use them.
You are free to use more open video sharing platforms and social networks... and have your content not be as discoverable, because once again, very few people use them.
You are free to use third party payment processors... and run into issues with integrating them or what locations they support.
As an individual, the network effects are too large and any attempts to fix the situation might need to start with legislation. As it currently stands, you are simply putting yourself at a disadvantage compared to others who go the "easy route", which may or may not be worth for you in the name of integrity.
Personally, when I want to put a video online or something, I don't say: "Okay, let's fix the world's issues and start with political advocacy." I also don't say: "Okay, let's review all of the video platforms and then spend the majority of my time trying to get more people on the platform of my choice." (some do, with varying degrees of success) I just put the video on YouTube.
Well, to be honest, I also have backups on a self-hosted instance of PeerTube and de-cloud myself as much as possible (e.g. self-hosted Nextcloud) and have all of my VPSes run FOSS in them and be easily replaceable (thanks to local backups), instead of allowing too much vendor lock to happen.. but that's besides the point, when you think about content that others consume in particular, network effect reigns supreme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect