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Taking control of your digital life will always be unappealing because it means you have to do the drudge work. There is no possible escape from massive corporations.

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That’s not true. A nonprofit/coop could in theory run single peertube instance.

Then you're beholden to it, and it will not be as lenient as Google is in some legal grey areas, because it cannot afford any legal liability.

For example, it would ban Louis Rossmann after just one cease-and-desist from Apple, because it couldn't afford to withstand a SLAPP lawsuit from Apple. (A SLAPP lawsuit is when you sue someone who hasn't done anything wrong, because you're a big company who can afford to bankrupt them with legal fees)

It's totally viable to create an entity in a jurisdiction where lawsuits are not automatically ruinous and stick to your principles.

On top of that, a small entity would not be as lenient about Google in terms of customer support or taking advantage of your personal data.

Ah yes. Let me just register a public Peertube instance in checks notes Malaysia.

Peertube takes under twenty minutes to set up. It's really, really not hard.

It's quite sad that Peertube is not on Sandstorm [1], where it becomes a one click install.

[1] https://apps.sandstorm.io/

And where will you set it up?

And what will you do when that company sends you a letter saying illegal stuff came from your server?

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