just frogman
i agree in terms of what we have right now. but without users engaging with the videos on that platform, we’ll never see any platform change unless there’s spooky investor money thrown into it.
as “power-users” (ew) or tech-literate people, i feel like we should be the ones doing the early adoption.
for anyone who doesn’t want to use odysee because there isn’t many videos, I recommend the Watch on Odysee extension. when you open a youtube video it’ll automatically redirect you to the Odysee upload, if there is one. it’s available on Chromium and Firefox.
become the change you want to see :))
a bit off-topic but relevant nonetheless:
i know i’m probably in the minority opinion here, but there are better privacy-respecting (and google spiting) platforms for viewing these videos than the official youtube website and rossman has been vocal in his support for these; particularly Odysee. below are 3 different projects, Odysee which is a whole separate and sustainable project, and piped & invidious which are privacy-respecting frontends to youtube. i think in future it’d be valuable to link these alternatives instead of the official youtube link.
https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/amazon-accuses-customer-of-racism-shuts:2 – Odysee
https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=NfiIXooD77s – Piped
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=NfiIXooD77s – Invidious
thanks for this, i edited the post. that slipped my mind entirely.
I want to see Apple contributing more to the open-source CrossOver project, both in terms of code and financing. Their contribution has been minimal and Apple’s audacity in essentially repackaging open-source software is disgusting to me. Please correct me if I’m wrong.