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Popular YouTube creators hold so much power in raising awareness about alternatives to Big Tech platforms.

I felt hope while watching Johnny Harris's latest video "The Internet Didn't Fail. It Was Taken"... which ultimately launched a new initiative: crowdsourced journalism on a site called NewPress.

Looking at screenshots I thought the site was hosted on #Ghost and thus federated.

Alas it's on SquareSpace and filled with trackers 😭

Who can we get on the Fediverse? Maybe Vanessa Wingårdh?

#ghost

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Elena Rossini ⁂

@max Molly White has been able to sustain herself by asking readers for donations. She uses the POSSE method (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere), publishes on Ghost and is here too.

@ben spoke about how successful a fundraising campaign for ProPublica was on the fediverse (compared to other places).

Nothing is stopping a YouTube creator from branching out to the Fediverse (and keep posting on YouTube). Especially those who "speak truth to power".

SquareSpace ain't it, ghghgh

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Devin

@max @ben I think a big part of it needs to be a cultural norm shift where people get used to donating to individual creators instead of paying monthly subscriptions for streaming platforms' overabundance of content. (Quality over quantity)

The cost difference wouldn't be that bad; I think it's the mentality shift that's more difficult. Patreon has certainly made this easier, but their UI is lame and it'd be rad if there were a non-profit alternative.

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Elena Rossini ⁂

@andycarolan the post wasn't so much about crowdsourced journalism but the fact that an Emmy award winning journalist with 7.5 million followers on YouTube made a video about the concept of power and information... talked down on algorithms... and at the end launched a new initiative that is on a centralized place, thus undoing all the great things he had said up until that point, le sigh
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A Sentient Glue Bottle

Johnny Harris has earned the slightly tongue in cheek moniker "CIA Johnny" since many of his videos tend to parrot narratives and base assumptions from the US foreign policy establishment as some kind of info "they" don't want you to hear. I have no idea whether or not he is actually a US intelligence asset, but at some point it becomes a distinction without a difference. Manufacture of consent and all that.

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