Very disappointing.
Is there any viable alternative left? Any video hosting/streaming platform left standing that's still privately-owned and genuinely opposed to censorship?
Odysee is still up and running. They were fucked with by the government and had to auction it off.
They bought it themselves, and all I have heard about future plans is to make it more decentralized and more censorship-resistant.
You won't get anything in terms of ad revenue, but they have stuck to their free speech principles and take the smallest super berry cut. The driving force behind it is Jeremy Kauffman, a free speech libertarian, who has shown his conviction through his actions.
For Chatbois Odysee is by far the most fun to be at. You can say all the nigger-words. Their TOS is set up so you can have any chat culture you want, but if you go to a furry streamer and call them a degenerate nigger on their stream you will get bonked.
Bitchute is still going. They had to block certain channels in certain countries and are generally being messed with for being based in the UK.
D-Live did its purge of undesirables pretty early in its life and crashed because of that. They are now slowly trying to get people back by being free speech, but you can't trust them.
PeerTube is very censorship-resistant, but it's not like a regular video platform, so adoption is very slow.
A content creator who is on the edgy side should use all video platforms he can and actively direct people to the platforms that give him the best deal and are more censorship-resistant.
My favorite
black guy deep fake is a good example
He ends all his videos with, "Follow me on Odysee."
TLAV is banned on all the big platforms but still using them.
They "pirate stream," basically always having alt accounts streaming on all platforms.
They direct people to their own website.
Anyone trying to make money with edgy content should get a website. It costs nothing and is less likely to be censored. It takes a dedicated big tech troon using all his big tech connections to take a website down temporarily.
Rumble wants to be the conservoid YouTube and if you look at their TOS they have set it up so they can purge all the wrong thinkers and edgy creators in the near future.
Rules for Chat
You may not post or transmit any message which is abusive, inciting violence, harassing, harmful, hateful, anti-semitic, racist or threatening.
Rules for CCs
Content or material that is grossly offensive to the online community, including but not limited to, racism, anti-semitism and hatred;
Content or material that;
Promotes, supports or incites individuals and/or groups which engage in violence or unlawful acts, including but not limited to Antifa groups and persons affiliated with Antifa, the KKK and white supremacist groups and or persons affiliated with these groups; and/or
Promotes or supports entities and/or persons designated by either the Canadian or United States government as terrorists or terrorist organizations.
I really think they will do a purge shortly after the election.