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If there's anyone running a YouTube channel getting hit by the age restrictions, consider running a PeerTube: https://joinpeertube.org/

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But the age restriction is due to EU regulation. It's only a matter of time until it filters elsewhere. Switching from YouTube isn't going to make a difference.

Any source for that? A few people have claimed legislation to be a reason but I'm not aware of any such rules.

Actually I'd be very, very surprised if this was even in the jurisdiction of the EU.

It's literally discussed and linked at the top of this thread.

Umm, no. The start of this thread just a link to joinpeertube and the top comment has no source or link of any kind.

So I gather you don't have any source either then.

He means the discussion of the article. The change is due to new EU legislation, links are provided elsewhere in the (whole) thread.

It's this thing that's at fault: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/revision-a...

Google even says so: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10070779?hl=en

>The Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) is an EU-wide coordination of national legislation on audiovisual media – both traditional TV broadcasts and on-demand services. Recently, AVMSD was revised to extend certain rules to video sharing platforms (VSPs).

>In line with AVMSD, you may be asked to re-verify your date of birth when watching age-restricted videos. Follow the prompts to submit an image of a valid ID or credit card.

Google are operating in EU, not so for Peertube. I am able to make Peertube instance and tell EU for to pound sand, it is distributed.

Last time I took a look at peertube it was tiny numbers of views and a lot of porn, which is fine but not my platform of choice.

Peertube is a federated platform... running your own instance or using an existing open instance that has some content restrictions would solve the mature content issue.

As far as 'views', in reality the vast majority of Youtube channels also get very few views. You can advertise/promote the Peertube instance just like you would promote a Youtube channel.

Another alternative is to just have Peertube mirror your YouTube channel and link to the instance in every video.

It really depends on the type of content you produce and how your content is 'discovered' but unless you are on the winning side of the Youtube algorithm, peertube isn't that worse.

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