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?
@_elena yea totally he should build his own pc and put it under his desk and serve the website via plains HTML to the world directly from his office. Using a self coded fedirated nginx bridge for static html contend. That’s what we do! Let’s do this! ✊
@_elena His agenda is pretty clear and has nothing to do with what the Fesiverse is. I stopped watching him a long, long, long time ago. Leaving him where he is is a much better contribution to the Fediverse.
@_elena CIA Johnny? Say it ain't so lol.
@themooserooster what did I miss? 👀
@_elena 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.
@themooserooster thank you for the explanation 😔
@_elena really just get everyone on the fediverse. cough cough handy flyer i made http://bluepixelcomputing.com:8141/fedi/fediflyer.pdf cough cough :P
