Post by @grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe

@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe

2026-04-24 22:57 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@FreeBSDFoundation/115583802055432643 @lispi314@udongein.xyz IMHO the (very) long list of gross proprietary platforms includes X, and YouTube. I could have written something mean-minded about YouTube, or some other aspect of the production, in response to the FreeBSD Project's . Instead of being mean, I did something nice: . gained a paid award: ＂Something to bear in mind — when a community is welcoming, it grows and flourishes. When a community is closed and unwelcoming, the people in it literally age the product out of relevance. If we want the products we love to survive, the communities around them need new users. FreeBSD is a great product, we should welcome anybody who wants to love it as much as we all do today 😊＂

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@lispi314@udongein.xyz 2026-04-24 23:12

@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe I have indeed been quite distressed with Youtube for quite some time for many reasons, including its unreliability. While Peertube ostensibly exists to pick-up its use-case (what a nice project), there are a large number of practical limitations to self-hosting on the clearnet that limit its adoption (copyright trolls among them, but the clearnet is also just not friendly to media self-hosting without considerable disposable income). GLITCH should be hosting an instance though, they do own or have license to literally everything in their publications (with considerable amounts having been commissioned by them) and are already hosting their own site with multimedia content anyway (so the basic entry hurdles of hosting aren't applicable here). (I'm willing to cut them some slack with the whole "currently coordinating a global release" thing, though.)

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