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Still finances bezos, good boy
I mean, by that logic, anyone who uses any website at all is financing Bezos, because half the internet runs on Amazon Web Services servers. It's kind of like making fun of someone for encouraging people to buy vegan food at the supermarket. You'll always have to buy food at the supermarket, because you have to eat, but you can at least buy vegan food to mitigate environmental impact. There are already hundreds of right-wing influencers. I don't think it's a bad thing to have left-wing influencers. Unless your ultimate goal is to have the communist movement be, like 7 people living off the grid.
I find it funny that people with financial opportunity to dodge imperial monopolies don’t, while right wingers do (see fuentes) Yes streamer with 1k subscribers can’t do shit, millionaire is a different proposition though. But i long despair at encouraging people to dodge monopolists out of spite, yes, i can’t avoid gmail at work, but i can avoid youtube at home. Every time someone says “i searched netflix or here is my spotify roundup or here is a link to instagram” i get slightly mad.
p2p streaming in baby form exists, and people with financial opportunity can force it into reality, you know
If you haven’t noticed, we are entering in american imperial order any dollar that can be rescued from usa clutches is valuable (and political streamers are roughly useless)
Tech as in software layer is the most superficial shit there is, once you get the code built, it exists, and for some indescribable reason popular leftists are all tech averse to the max and behave like normies and pay for shit costing cents
*if we are in the deepest pit of reaction and going down ever more rapidly, while our politics are unpopular or not popular enough for people to sacrifice even a modicum of comfort, the goal of a leftist is not to live alone in the woods (although viable), but to fuck profit rates everywhere we can, which, in current world, includes tech monopolies, where one person can plausibly fuck up the whole music, if they somehow get popular, but “our” popular or interesting persons are nowhere interesting enough to see that as a direction to pursue. I would gladly only link peertube video, and avoid nitter if couple more people were on mastodon, but alas
Right?
But I have no faith in Hasan. This is how engaged he is with BDS.
His "compromise" was to drink coke out of a glass or something. I don't watch Hasan but I bet he hasn't stuck to his word on this. The guy is so rich he wouldn't even need to switch to generic brand cola, he could import a pallet of Gaza Cola and drink that instead. He could literally get a personal assistant to handle all of the logistics of this and he wouldn't even notice an impact on his life in any way.
Yet even that is too much effort for him.
He ain't gonna save us. He can't even be bothered to look into what's on the BDS list and to simply avoid showing those brands on stream. But he will work for DHS though.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
He simply has no choice :( no ethical consumption under capitalism
There's not really anywhere better to stream at the moment. YouTube moderation and chat (which he relies on for content) sucks, Kick is a chud casino for children, TikTok is now owned by Israel.
He's also just not going to be the one to develop anything new, he's simply too locked into his 8-10 hour daily streams to do that. There is an opportunity to kneecap Twitch though, if someone were to create a streaming platform that only streamers who are reliably getting 1-2K+ can stream on. Twitch loses money basically because of all the small streamers that eat up resources stream in 1440k60fps to like 15 people.
He gets well over a million dollars a year. He absolutely could do things differently. He's been doing it long enough and successfully enough he could probably just do it completely non profit for the rest of his life and live comfortably off his savings. He elects not to for the same reason he misrepresents Lenin to encourage people to vote for the democrats - because he is a wealthy liberal and his class interests are ultimately aligned with them.
Hasan is paying a producer, editors, and mods with that money, also. It's not all just going to him.
He doesn't pay his mods. He does pay the actual employees a lot though afaik, like I think they divide the revenue equally because they're in a cooperative type setup.
He won’t obviously, cause of treatlerism and being tech averse, but he could start it
This guy could barely play games and yall think he can fund his own infrastructure is crazy
funding is very easy, you just have to part with money lmao. i'm not suggesting he will bumble with his own rack in a basement ffs
He really couldn't. Someone could approach him for seed money, but he's just a leftist himbo who shouts at his chat and eats food on stream as a full time job. He's not going to be developing anything. Investing is about the extent of what he's going to be capable of. At the beginning, it would likely only be him and maybe a couple other people that they could afford to have on there, and he would probably struggle to find and keep hosting, because it will be a lot easier for the ADL to harass hosting companies when it's just him.
p2p and hosting harassment
not to mention how fuentes exists then?
And again viability of online peer streaming was demonstrated, a decade ago or more, the issue is finishing the damn thing (and making it popular enough, which might be a bigger hurdle)
Nick Fuentes exists because he's a government assets.
Alternatives exist, but an alternative that has low latency, high image quality, a strong chat function with emotes that can handle his extremely active chat, and strong moderation tool.
Doesn't PeerTube already do this?