@maartenpelgrim @AliceStollmeyer @bert_hubert
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 that the code that awaits them at pure youtube.com links...

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

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 when working which was a lot of the time)... People then could fall back on the direct / unfiltered links

So why I mention this after gargon said 'it's up to users' was related back to this post that people are somehow ok with huge consumption of AWS, the filesizes, backups... it's so bourgeois coming from people who do good in 1 department but can't even agree technically that 2Gb video files just for 'chats', (and various versions of it - but not the lowest bitrates of course), are too much - even on PeerTube

So much to undo - which is why staying small helps and seing we need to do the people work i.e. increase user / admin intelligence and check that in a robust / less heckling way... so people that can help reason on measured / concrete things (like I said about Google clicks and 'supplying' our users from Mastodon only to go to adverts when we have open source project we could use / at least link to / advertise once a month). Google is the opposite of many things - so it is up to us even if we don't unite.
❓ Anyone feel that / see it as a part of the ethos, even if it's not 100% following everything I say? ❓

Real work is the users and admin / and non-google non-aws stuff... maximising the people-to-people work (p2p communication daily) rather than mass storage and mcdonalds...