If you’re going to mention Frank Zappa you also have to mention “Sheik Yerbouti” and “Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch” by him.

Um what? Since when are open standards that allow vendor interoperability a bad thing?

The text is also incredible misleading. The data will still be harvested and monetized, just not for ads.

He does credit someone else with coining the term.

They are not alternatives because they don’t have content. Streaming video is fairly trivial. Having content is not.

It’s much more banal. YouTube is simply a monopoly abusing its market power. People would use alternatives if they existed.

An AI model is a derivative work of its training data and thus a copyright violation if the training data is copyrighted.

Try https://browse.feddit.de/ to find them and then you can build your own url like this: https://<your.instance>/c/<community_name>@<other.instance>. Kind of klunky, hope this gets ironed out.