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      Third-party or self hosted GitLab FTW.

      Youtube is kind of hard to replace, though. There’s attempts but I’m skeptical they’ll go far.

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          How many YouTube competitors have risen up and died since it first started? PeerTube is fine but there’s no AdSense so the really big an medium sized ones won’t move over. There aren’t enough viewers for sponsorships to be worth while so it’s purely passion that will drive people to upload onto it, which is great but it basically limits the uploads to people who are techy enough or care enough about decentralization to go out of their way to not get payed.

    • LenaOP
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      I require thy github username

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            I have 3 followers, one is a maintainer of Postgres and I’ll tell literally anyone who fucking listens

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              Take the win.

              I mostly just use GitHub for work. I don’t think the social media bits matter.

              Except stars. I’ve been told investors use stars as a proxy for interest lately. I see how bots these make a lot of sense.

              All this bots stuff reminds me of an off hand part of Anathem. They had this historical arms race of garbage spread on their internet. There’s these monk folks who have been fighting it for generations. I thought it was sill years ago. Feels sane now.

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    I feel like YouTube one can lead into another. Because it’s hard to get people to follow you in GitHub. But having another platform where you can advertise your programs means a lot. Even if you write something useful people are not going to discover you without something else doing the outreach.

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    Theres been a LOT of bots on github lately. They mass follow each other. Its pretty easy to see them as they will have 1k+ followers and follow just as many. Theres growing scams and acounts where you can buy GH accounts online that are “primed” with followers so your account looks good.