It’s not that challenging with a partner to help manage infrastructure which even at his scale is not going to cost an obscene amount of money.

Edit: there’s a very massive difference between a single content creator hosting their content and a site hosting everyone’s content like YouTube as well in terms of cost, infrastructure, security and management.

I just use down sub to pull the transcript from his video It's only 60% as annoying.

He has the normal privacy versus cost worries which are reasonably valid. Then he rambles on, plugs a product that he's shilling that's unrelated to the subject matter, says he's replacing Google search with a local LLM, does some hot takes on alternatives, does some reasonable takes on some alternatives.

To be honest, this is probably the least helpful de-googling video I've seen, other than the fact that he's a major influencer and is telling everyone they should be doing it.

Putting a video file somewhere and letting 10,000 people watch it at the same time is no small feat.

You could probably get away with doing it on peer tube but it has no facilities to lock people out or make them pay.

Even if you don't use patreon for payments payments aren't free.

It's harder then you think.

I mean, I don't know of him now... he's way older and, seems significantly less immature than he was in the past, it's possible a good portion of his fanbase has also grown to be more tolerable.

You are correct. Websites, the stack to supply video encoding, even scalability is a solved problem.

The hard work isn't technical, it's getting people onto your platform in the first place (marketing), getting people to continue using your platform (retention) and the perennial problems of SaaS evolving with other SaaS platforms (how many dev hours are you willing to eat trying to keep up with the Joneses?).

SaaS, and in this case, SaaS offering content, is a losing game. You will either lose your shirt, sell your business, or become entrenched in a position whose inertia is difficult to break. How much of any of those you are willing to take a firehose of is the question.

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend”

It's not easy, but you're not guaranteed to end up

either lose your shirt, sell your business, or become entrenched in a position whose inertia is difficult to break

It depends on the personalities involved and the business model they go with.

Nebula has done really well with consistent growth as a premium offering where people pay one subscription fee to get ad-free videos from exclusively high-quality creators across a quote broad range of niches, in addition to bonus extras and Nebula Originals.

Dropout seems to have a lot of success with a range of mostly unscripted comedy, centred around a core cast of trusted comedic actors with a larger range of guests.

Floatplane, on the other hand, seems much less successful, probably owing to its business model being basically Patreon's, but only for video. Instead of the wide range of content you get for surprisingly reasonable amounts of Nebula and Dropout, Floatplane ends up looking very expensive if you want to support more than one or two creators. Plus the creators on it haven't got the same degree of trust; it ends up reeking of the sort of techbro vibes that people are explicitly trying to get away from.

Cartman brah

He also paid some Africans to hold an anti-semitic sign. To prove people will do things for money I think?

It will stay up. Do you know how many YouTube videos there are badmouthing Google? They don't care so long as you're watching them.

How can he be done with Google and still posting YouTube videos?

Waiting for the episode where he finds out who owns YouTube 🫠

That's going to be one long arc though

has he stopped "accidentally" naziing?

Let's hope so.

What's next, Open source electric car? Building and living in an Earth Ship?

The thumbnail has a big ole X over the word youtube. I think he knows

I see you didn't make it 40s into the video.

He switched to linux a while back. Now he's trying to switch as much of the rest of his digital life to FOSS/non-profit stuff. He advocates for duckduckgo, firefox, paid email, graphene os, selfhosted vaultwarden, nextcloud, anything but google maps, kodi, etc.

I disagree. Things seem to get worse when the herds move to them. It’s as if things are good precisely because they aren’t there.