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Still holding long time 'grudge' that admin or creators of software like #Mastodon still don't / can't / won't suggest non-youtube links to people or filtered / proxy type links as another way to see videos safer than the code that awaits them at pure youtube.com links... (which is google)

...so the Mastodon users / our users aren't just another ad-farm with millions of clicks each day going out from our users there.

At least people can add a 2nd link if not implement an auto-alternative
(I know @invidious was off sometimes but still saved so much money going to wrong sides from adverts, and when working was great and a lot of up-time)... People then could fall back on the direct / unfiltered links, sure

So why I mention this after gargron said 'it's up to users' was related back to this post that people are somehow ok with huge US consumption of AWS and it's policies and dangers, with the massive filesizes, backups... it's so bourgeois coming from people who do good in 1 or 2 departments but can't even agree technically that 2Gb video files just for 'chats' is just bloat, (and then various versions of it - but not the lowest video bitrates of course for minimal user watching on smallest of screens), too much to ask perhaps - and even on PeerTube with US space not great for a variety of historical of reasons that still hold today not to trust that connection link... #spying predominately - much more on that later...

So much to undo basically now it's all so cheep-cheep... which is why staying small helps and seeing we need to mazimise the people work i.e. increase user / admin brains and check that using a robust / less heckling ping pong... so people that can build and help reason the reasoning!... on measured / concrete things like what I said about Ytb / Google clicks and 'supplying' our users from Mastodon only to go to adverts

Also when we have open source projects we could use / at least link to and advertise once a month like @invidious .

#Google / #AWS is the opposite of many things - so it is up to us - even if we don't unite. To resist

Anyone feel that / see it as a part of the ethos, even if it's not 100% following everything I say?

FOR THE WAY...
Real work is working on the users themselves and some admin and do non-google non-aws stuff (or less) ... while maximising the people-to-people work (p2p communication daily to get brains with the swords they wield) rather than mass storage and mcdonalds ...