But I feel like just setting up some bots so major Youtubers could put stuff on Bitchute without much effort would help a lot of the situation.

Bitchute has some major problems now. But Youtube is increasingly not a good platform unless you want to bow to Google.

Actually it already can happen

Timcast doesn't upload a single video onto bitchute

He just has his YouTube channel linked to his bitchute account

So as soon as its uploaded onto YouTube bitchute has a carbon copy ready to upload with description and video thumbnail

Yeah that's one setback to bitchute. You can't upload a video unless you have a video thumbnail.

It's like a requirement to upload there

It's not possible to do ye olde youtube thing and just pull a random frame from the video?

Instacast is supposed to become a big one

so get ready to choose between Google and the Zucc

I'm not sure I like the idea of trading one master for another...

welcome to reality

But when I think of mainstreaming BitChute, I mean, could we get Pew De Pie to post there?

Just start putting gameplay videos on there and link there on gaming forums?

upload the stuff that people actually go to Youtube for beyond politics?

Should tell anyone that will listen to post mirror

Then people who care can use it when watching and sharing

I feel like it would be a start.

It's kinda like Voat. If it's just a bunch of guys who no one really wanted to see anyway, it'll only ever languish.

It really is the content makers that make the platform

Agreed.

And the Content.

Looks like Bitchute doesn;t have ads though

It does have a few paid options

Totally optional but still

@pratel the site doesn't support it. What I do is I just boot up the video I want to load up on to bitchute with vlc and take a snapshot from there to upload.

It's not something we could do on our end. It would be one of those "1 day" changes on the developer end.

Something to message the developers as a feature request.

When you develop this stuff it's easy to miss those minor inconveniences.

You get really worried about things just working so you avoid extra special cases. But at some point you hit a point where you can send an intern after a minor thing and it makes a big difference to the user experience.

one way to help populate bitchute with content is to advertise it to streamers, who all use one of those multistream services like restream. they could use it to safely archive their content maybe.

partner with one of those services

I kinda like that. Just drop hints to streamers.

the main thing is that it would need to be seamless

What would be the cost benefit of content creators switching though?

Backup.

That seems like a good question for Tim actually.

BitChute promises not to do adpocalypse.

Content creators like ads, otherwise they would turn monetization off

Yeah, that's going to ultimately be the challenge.