I’m boycotting YouTube primarily because of their recent human right censorship against Palestine. But I’d generally like to reduce YouTube’s dominance in the streaming space, even if it means supporting a few alternative US-based platforms like Nebula, though obviously PeerTube would be ideal.

Edit: The comments here mention that it would be good to tie the email to monetization, so I’ll also be mentioning my support on Patreon in future emails.

Here’s the kind of email I’m sending to my favourite creators. You can usually find their email in their channel bio.

Subject: Please consider alternative video platforms

Hello <First Name/Channel Name>,

I’m writing to ask you to please consider uploading your videos to alternative streaming platforms, in addition to, not instead of, YouTube.

I’ve personally started to move away from YouTube because <INSERT reasons>. Here’s another creator who also recently wrote about their reasons for moving off the platform: https://joshgriffiths.site/youtube-is-awful-im-not-posting-there-anymore/

I’m currently consuming video content on <INSERT alternatives> instead of YouTube.

<INSERT reasons I’m a fan>. I would love to continue watching your content on any other platform, and I’m sure others would appreciate the option to do so as well.

Cheers,
<Name>

  • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Make it about how relying on Google can affect them negatively without warning. Suddenly getting a fake DMCA takedown as other YouTubers have, suddenly seeing drops in viewership you rely on to negotiate deals with sponsors, false positives from AI taking down videos and potentially your channel without notice, making sure to diversify so if one platform goes down they will still have others they can retain their usual viewers in, etc. They may not be political activists, but all YouTubers want to succeed.