2w ago

Influencers are pitching in

I think wide publicity of the Buy European movement is good https://youtu.be/tRhg9qKux88

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We need a new video platform to come up as a competitor for youtube, because right now youtube has a monopoly on video content. There was once a site called vid.me which was awesome, unfortunately the creator didn't have enough funds to fund it long term. If I knew anything about how to host a website, I would but I don't know shit about it.
- Personally I hope that PeerTube can fill that gap. It still needs improvement in ease-of-use before it can get there though.
  
  Exactly. Tried to cast a documentary from their app to my tv yesterday. 100% impossible. In the end, had to watch it on a laptop. https://kolektiva.media/w/ra7bfqXCyqBFn7dSFhneFy
- We desperately need one but to host that much media costs a load of money
For those who want some useful stickers to help spreading the message all around Europe, check https://ko-fi.com/buyeuropean/shop .
Using Google's YouTube to do it. Requires their viewers all to watch YouTube... 🤕🙄
- sadly that's where the numbers are, duno what you can do about that when Youtube has a monopoly on video content
  
  100% agree, and I see no easy way to get over that. Maybe a good starting point could be to also post the video on an alternative platform and mention that alternative platform to the YT audience, encouraging them to test it out?
  
  Avoid it.
  https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/youtube
- You can't start a movement by only posting to places where there are no (or not enough) people. The majority of people you need to convince will be on YouTube.
  
  I don't disagree, but literally looking for followers on one of the biggest platforms owned by one of the 'bigtech' biggest tech, as an "influencer" kinda defeats the whole purpose. Also, she's not 'starting a movement'.
  Relying on people to go to YouTube to watch the video that more than likely just points at things already written and linked to on the sites that have already gained a massive following without YouTube is not unnecessary, but it is unneeded.
- Big " yet you participate in society." energy with this
  
  Unff..
- Yes, if a single thing is not European, they deserve to die in fire for their sins! /s
  
  YouTube is not a 'single thing'. If you don't understand the buy European movement works or the privacy issues behind the bigtechs, then that's on you.
- She did also post that video on a European platform, but even many people in this group aren’t used to check at first whether or not a video is available on a European platform too https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jkxe0
  
  Daily motion is owned by the French canal+, a public company.
  Maybe I've gone too far in my open source and decentralised convictions, but the only benefit I see here is that the company is based in the EU. It has the same profit driven structure as Google/YouTube.
  Why I see this as a problem?
  Option A- the platform grows but it can't monetise effectively: they will need to seek more revenue by further monetising users and advertisers. Expected result: enshittification
  Option B- the platform grows and becomes very successful. This is a publicly traded company, so growth is everything. They will once again seek further monetisation. Expected result is the same.
  What's more, having extremely powerful and wealthy corporations leaves us on the path the US has taken, with strong lobbies of private interest (basically legal corruption).
  Shouldn't we use this turning point to move to a better alternative, instead of substituting foreign cancer with a home grown variety?

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