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[–]useless_aether 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (17 children)

last opportunity to back up all the good stuff. i expect the 10th of dec, when yt changes its tos, to be a digital night of the long knifes

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (16 children)

I wish there was a popular decentralized alternative or few all ready and waiting. Sadly too many are too lazy and love the convenience of their enslavement to "the cloud". Enslavement isn't free and freedom isn't free either.

On the plus side, they are doing it early enough, almost a year before elections - that we might actually be able to organize some significant resistance alternatives to wake the flock up.

[–]useless_aether 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

peertube! we (d3rr) have our own instance: https://tube.4aem.com/videos/local

and dont forget bitchute, its torrent based, not too bad.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

/u/d3rr - If you can't read the title how can you know if you want to see the "adult" content on PeerTube? (Crazy colour scheme btw)

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

It's a risky click game!

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

There's a whole lot of alternatives (/s/DecentralizeAllThings/wiki near the bottom) but none stand out as fantastic (yet). PeerTube is great but too small and has limits - in part because it needs participation - and resources (that were "free" in the cloud).

I would love to set up a server here for my dozens of hard drives to share what was once available - yet I need hardware. Maybe I should try to raise funds somehow.

[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

That actually seems like a very good price, though I haven't been looking/shopping for some time. It would be nice to set up some FreeNAS on it if possible, ideally. And then I'd need about 5 or 6 of them for all my drives, plus a decent server, connection, VPN, proper software, and some occasional sysadmin assistance and boom: A+ limited resource with lots of fringe and pirated content - until they shut it down for whatever reason(s).

[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (7 children)

I'd need about 5 or 6

sometimes i doubt your commitment to the united nations sustainability guidelines :-)

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Are you referring to Agenda 21 or Agenda 2030?

Perhaps the United Nations could put some pressure on the corporatocracy to allow free and open communications, so then we could comfortably rely upon "the cloud" not to censor us and force us to be digital hoarders.

For what it's worth, I've never owned a car. A few motorcycles, sure. But primarily I just walk, borrow, or get rides. Also, I'm so poor I can't afford meat much, though now I'm fatter than I was when I could. Also, I recycle all sorts of other shit, sometimes in clever ways but usually just bland and utilitarian. I preferred it when I had money enough to cultivate a style. My style now is pragmatic with lots of quirks.

Soon enough I'll start a /s/GreenParty for more of this kind of discussion stuff.

[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Are you referring to Agenda 21 or Agenda 2030?

no, it was meant to be a joke man!

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I know it was a joke. But the UN does have plans. Have you not heard about UN Agenda 2030?

Plus I got carried away thinking out loud how much of a fantastic person I am for being so sustainable. Only mentioning the good things - not all the bad things that I do on a regular basis. I would list them but that would take days...

[–]Phineas 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

https://livepeer.org/# is in beta right now. Company that just got 8mil startup for a decentralized video platform

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)