After talking about it with my Patreon supporters, and here on Mastodon, I decided to stop publishing to Odysee. I wrote a short blog post about the reasons, and the options people have to keep watching outside of YouTube if they want to:
https://thelinuxexp.com/Im-leaving-odysee/
It's not a decision everyone will agree with, but it's the one I'm comfortable with.
@thelinuxEXP #PeerTube is the only proper alternative to centralized platforms like YouTube IMO. The issue is, as always, how to fund these things properly... 🙃 But at least you can read up on an instance's rules, to see if they moderate away horrible things or not. And you can block instances you don't like.
So... anyone got any ideas how we can fund PeerTube, and possibly the larger Fediverse, in a fair way? 🤔
#OpenSource #YouTube #Fediverse #Decentralized #Funding #AskFedi
Well what is the major cost? Storage? Bandwidth? Processing?
Maybe there are ways for users to make in-kind donations too.
@volkris @bloodaxe I personally contribute to the instance I use through their Patreon, but I don’t know if that’s enough to cover the costs generated by my being there. My quota in there is close to full, so we’ll have to reassess quickly to see how to move forward, as I don’t really want to host my own instance (I already lack time to maintain all my own servers 😅)