Judging from your videos and your projects, you definitely understand the value of open-source design – in fact, just from your opinion on Facebook, you clearly know how exploitative and dangerous corporate social media can be. With that in mind, I think you’d really be interested in a growing platform called PeerTube!

PeerTube runs on fully open-source software, is decentralized (meaning hosted on multiple websites by independent people and communities – making it impossible for any one group to collect and sell everyone’s data), and is even, as its name suggests, based partly on peer-to-peer connections – this makes the energy requirement for servers and for users much lower, because people host their own videos on their own computers rather than copying them and sending them to a central server. And, since it uses the ActivityPub protocol, it can even interact with other similarly decentralized open platforms, like Mastodon, Friendica, Diaspora, Funkwhale, WriteFreely, and PixelFed (for those who don’t know what that means, imagine if you could like and comment on a YouTube video from your Twitter account, even if you don’t have an account with Google. It’s just like that, but with PeerTube and Mastodon replacing YouTube and Twitter)

Despite being really really cool, PeerTube is struggling to get started. It’s got a sort of negative feedback loop going on, where no one uploads there because no one watches there, and no one watches there because no one uploads there. It’d be super rad if you could play your part in spreading this awesome platform by uploading your videos there as well as YouTube! And to everyone else reading this post: please ask some of your favorite content creators to dual upload as well!