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makes money from videos promoting extremism. Its algorithm radicalises viewers, because it wants people to be angrily clicking on more videos.

YouTube is tearing society apart by encouraging us to hate each other:

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The most promising ethical alternative to YouTube is , which is decentralised and in beta testing.

You can support development of PeerTube to a release version at its crowdfunding page:

kisskissbankbank.com/en/projec

Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ @bob@soc.freedombone.net
@switchingsocial I don't agree with that characterization of YouTube. If anything, YouTube has too much censorship, and it censors in an arbitrary and opaque way. Some of the radicals who used to have YouTube channels gave up years ago because they were constantly battling with unfathomable censorship. Mostly what's remaining now are fake/lifestyle radicals.

But I do encourage people to use PeerTube instead. If you're creating video content then find a PeerTube instance.
switching.social @switchingsocial

@bob

In the post's context, I'm using the term "radicalise" to mean YouTube encouraging negative things like hatred/racism/violence/threats/paranoia/extremism.

Obviously the word "radical" can also mean neutral or positive things, but that's not what it refers to in the post.

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