I'm no Trump fan, but how do we fix the decentralization everyone brings up? For example, Lbry/Odysee and ilk are often touted as alternatives. I watched a video from someone pretty big on that platform where they had shifted to say maybe Linux Gaming isn't doing too well long term. He's being "cancelled" right now over there because of the current audience of these platforms. He was already dealing with tons of "why are you still posting on youtube as well" comments. I find a lot of people seem to use these alternatives not so much for their superiority, but because they hate big tech.
I guess ultimately his videos are still there, and that's the real point of decentralization. But perhaps the main issue isn't so much about using Youtube/Twitter, but exclusively using them. I can understand "going where the people are" to bring a message, but don't only post there.
I remember being part of a School District who was GAFE for 5 years before Google rolled out its "Google Vault" feature. You enable it to give yourself access to email/google docs ediscovery for FOI requests.
Creepy thing is, when we turned it on we could see deleted emails including spam, everything imaginable that had been sent, received, or created for the entire previous years we had been a GAFE School. Before Google Vault even existed. We don't have control over the collected data, these companies just give us the illusion of it by letting us disable our own access to it.
Don't want Google now notification for in store deals on your android phone? Ok, you can disable it...but Google is still tracking what stores you go to when and where.
A big thing I've seen that keeps schools in GAFE is affordability and ease of management. IT department workloads plummet, so no arguments from them. Also imagine the nightmare of trying to export all of your google docs to another platform somehow.
I don't like it and it isn't right, but before this can change I think we'll need good open cloud alternatives with easy migration paths. As far as chromebook hardware is concerned, we'll need another viable cheap alternative that respects privacy.
I guess ultimately his videos are still there, and that's the real point of decentralization. But perhaps the main issue isn't so much about using Youtube/Twitter, but exclusively using them. I can understand "going where the people are" to bring a message, but don't only post there.