@backus this thread on HN prompted me to think about YouTube's demonetization "crisis" and how it's affected content creators https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17577372 …
...and how that relates to some of what you've been discussing re: decentralization
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Yes and often for spurious reasons. Once the demonetization is overturned by humans, if that ever even happens, the majority of viewers have already watched
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Yeah, I wouldn't expect this to do much for PeerTube. I agree switching platforms must be user-led, but it is usually subgroups exiting while the rest of the user base is unchanged. See alt-right (I think?) fleeing to voat. Wherever r/DarknetMarkets went is prob interesting too
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That also happened with Mastodon and the Fediverse in general! You get decentralization ideologues, anti-corporate people, FL/OSS people, furries, vulnerable trans people, Japanese lolicon fans who can't use Twitter http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2017/08/18/mastodon-is-big-in-japan-the-reason-why-is-uncomfortable/ … etc. etc. And sometimes they bicker
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There is something tragic and funny about how decentralized platforms like Mastodon attract extreme communities in exile as well as people that want Twitter to police speech more, add content warnings, etc
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