Like advertising is not bad if we do it our way for our things I suggest other things we do for ourself too.

Using demonised things to get what we want is not natural to us but practising (at least in theory) our own advertising I think is healthy.

The other side obviously is hitting much harder with syndication (a kind of federating) which I think we can willingly enter or be more active in creating together advertising packages (even just a page listing relative video's to watch). This can be as simple as that or needs skill if it's more automated (like an algorithm).

I think if I accept to have open source advertised to me within the boundaries of what I subscribed to then that might be ok.

A lot of open critique should welcome but worst case scenario is perhaps switching it off or just having more people dedicated to feeding people what they want to watch... so I don't get distracted and keep it relative somehow in my life to find the holy grail I'm looking for (I'm not always sure what I'm looking for until you advertise it to me!!!)

Thoughts welcome.
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