Reply To: COPPA, the FTC and Youtube content appealing to children.

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Just to throw this in the ring again: There are alternatives to YouTube. Vimeo being a prime example. Some YouTuber started “copying” their content to there just to have a backup should YouTube some day go berserk. (Or their accounts get hacked because that never happened before, right?)

But there are two more that might be of interest.

Floatplane – a Canadian company run by Linus from Linus Media Group. It’s similar to Vimeo but still very early in it’s workings. Basically you pay a subscription fee to see what your creator has done.

Peertube – open source, decentralised network of video servers. That is called “Federation” or “Fediverse”. The good thing about this is: you can run your own server and it will stay connected to other servers so you still have a global reach. The bad thing is: everybody can run a server so there is potential for a lot of crap 😉 “PeerTube aspires to be a decentralized and free/libre alternative to video broadcasting services. Our aim is not to replace them, but rather to simultaneously offer something else, with different values.”

That’s just food for thought…