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There are even more ethical use cases, Say a disabled person(I am) on a creator platforms who wish to defeat the algorithms which suppress videos from the disabled or similarly those who wish to defeat racial bias.

In a fair world we wouldn't needing such hacks for equality, But we all know the reality.

Or say those with accessibility issues who cannot put the physical effort in creating videos. I've been tracking 'Deep Fake video generating SW for ethical usage'[1] on my problem validation platform.

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/20-deep-fake-video-generating-s...

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> the algorithms which suppress videos from the disabled

I would be interested in reading more about this.

There you go: https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/tiktok-disabled-users-v...

For a second I was thinking YouTube was doing this. Just move out off tiktok.

YouTube's algorithm will probably treat you the same way every now and again for the general public, but maybe that's because the general public doesn't want to watch that type of content?

Your close subscribers and people with interest will still get your videos.

And if you're self conscious about your physical appearance, your can always become a VTuber or something like that.

YouTube will do it's own set of nasty things to creators, as we can see on an almost weekly basis on the first page here. Also we'll never know what kind of stuff it will do in years to come. So "move from platform X to platform Y" may be a decent tactical advice, but in a long run it is better to suppose that they are all the same.

True, we just need to keep in mind that there's not "best platform", just a "lest worst platform"

In this context, the terms “best” or “worst” have to be measured on a number of different axes.

What is best on one axis might fare poorly on a different axis.

So, there is unlikely to be one single best platform for anything, although there may be many horrible platforms in many different ways.

Video GATTACA?

Makes sense.

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