It’s group think at its finest. I got barred from a civic organization I was apart of for being a trump supporter wfter I said “a black man can take ballots and fake them just as easily as a bubba in the south, don’t be stupid”. Asked to not come back.
I've been thinking a lot about alternative content sharing platforms and the problems they face for the past few years and also wrote my CS diploma thesis somewhat related to this (not saying college matters, I regret wasting my time in college). One of the biggest issues new platforms face is the network effect: established mainstream platforms have a huge advantage because of the amount of content that their large amount of users produce (this includes comments). The vast amount of content further incentivises people to use an established platform, rather than joining a new one.
To hurt big tech the most I think we need a new kind of "meta platforms". Take video sharing for example: a "meta platform" for video sharing would fetch content from YouTube, BitChute, Odysee, Rumble and other existing platforms and store the metadata on its servers. It would implement its own search and recommendation (discovery) engine. This solves the challenge every new alternative platform faces: lack of (diverse) content. It would also implement common features such a subscriptions, blocking/muting users, ...
It would also allow registered users to add multiple existing video sharing platforms via OAuth (crucially YouTube) and when they would upload a video it would post it to all the different platforms the user has added to their account. On this "meta" platform the same video on multiple platforms would be seen as one video (deduplicated), with comments/likes from multiple platforms merged together. This means the content (including comments) posted on this meta platform would also be seen directly on YouTube by people who never heard of this platform. I think this feature would also attract content creators, since uploading to multiple platforms increases their reach.
A platform that combines mainstream and alternative sources would also be more attractive to normies and redpill some of them.
I would focus on the following meta platforms the most:
-Video (bridges to YouTube, Rumble, Odysee (LBRY network), BitChute, ... even Instagram videos)
-Communities/news aggregator (bridges to TheDonald, Reddit, Aether, notabug.io, ...)
-Microblogging (bridges to Twitter, Parler, Gab, Matrix, ...)
Platforms of this type would need a lot of compute (scraping all content from other platforms, indexing, recommendations). Storage requirements could be reduced by only storing the metadata and textual data, while embedding the videos directly from YouTube.
I think platforms of this type would face a lot of legal challenges, since the most effective way to build it would be to scrape the publicly available data from YouTube /Twitter/FB (since fetching the content via an API can be easily disabled by BIG tech). Most of the legal challenges are the result of years of lobbying by BIG tech - they are only legal, not moral challenges, since the content on those platforms is in principle made and owned by its users, not the platform itself. Making the project open source and allowing anyone to host an instance is one way I see to make it more resilient and hard to shut down, even in the face of legal pressures.
Good idea. There were such platforms mostly for SEO purposes. Probably disabled because of the legal problems. But maybe with the servers in a country wich doesn't care about such stuff ... maybe could work. But it would be banned in the searchresults ...
They don't care. Leftists think it's always a good thing whenever something bad happens to anyone who is a target of the establishment. They are mindless sheep who will morph reality and move goalposts to fit events into their desired narrative. They will always find a way to justify any action that they perceive as being politically beneficial to them. It's some of the most disappointing human behavior I have seen in my life. It's really bad right now.
It’s group think at its finest. I got barred from a civic organization I was apart of for being a trump supporter wfter I said “a black man can take ballots and fake them just as easily as a bubba in the south, don’t be stupid”. Asked to not come back.
I've been thinking a lot about alternative content sharing platforms and the problems they face for the past few years and also wrote my CS diploma thesis somewhat related to this (not saying college matters, I regret wasting my time in college). One of the biggest issues new platforms face is the network effect: established mainstream platforms have a huge advantage because of the amount of content that their large amount of users produce (this includes comments). The vast amount of content further incentivises people to use an established platform, rather than joining a new one.
To hurt big tech the most I think we need a new kind of "meta platforms". Take video sharing for example: a "meta platform" for video sharing would fetch content from YouTube, BitChute, Odysee, Rumble and other existing platforms and store the metadata on its servers. It would implement its own search and recommendation (discovery) engine. This solves the challenge every new alternative platform faces: lack of (diverse) content. It would also implement common features such a subscriptions, blocking/muting users, ...
It would also allow registered users to add multiple existing video sharing platforms via OAuth (crucially YouTube) and when they would upload a video it would post it to all the different platforms the user has added to their account. On this "meta" platform the same video on multiple platforms would be seen as one video (deduplicated), with comments/likes from multiple platforms merged together. This means the content (including comments) posted on this meta platform would also be seen directly on YouTube by people who never heard of this platform. I think this feature would also attract content creators, since uploading to multiple platforms increases their reach.
A platform that combines mainstream and alternative sources would also be more attractive to normies and redpill some of them.
I would focus on the following meta platforms the most:
-Video (bridges to YouTube, Rumble, Odysee (LBRY network), BitChute, ... even Instagram videos) -Communities/news aggregator (bridges to TheDonald, Reddit, Aether, notabug.io, ...) -Microblogging (bridges to Twitter, Parler, Gab, Matrix, ...) Platforms of this type would need a lot of compute (scraping all content from other platforms, indexing, recommendations). Storage requirements could be reduced by only storing the metadata and textual data, while embedding the videos directly from YouTube.
I think platforms of this type would face a lot of legal challenges, since the most effective way to build it would be to scrape the publicly available data from YouTube /Twitter/FB (since fetching the content via an API can be easily disabled by BIG tech). Most of the legal challenges are the result of years of lobbying by BIG tech - they are only legal, not moral challenges, since the content on those platforms is in principle made and owned by its users, not the platform itself. Making the project open source and allowing anyone to host an instance is one way I see to make it more resilient and hard to shut down, even in the face of legal pressures.
Good idea. There were such platforms mostly for SEO purposes. Probably disabled because of the legal problems. But maybe with the servers in a country wich doesn't care about such stuff ... maybe could work. But it would be banned in the searchresults ...
They don't care. Leftists think it's always a good thing whenever something bad happens to anyone who is a target of the establishment. They are mindless sheep who will morph reality and move goalposts to fit events into their desired narrative. They will always find a way to justify any action that they perceive as being politically beneficial to them. It's some of the most disappointing human behavior I have seen in my life. It's really bad right now.
Dominion at work