Nebula exists. Curiosity Stream exists. PeerTube exists. Odysee exits. The people I value on YT already have footholds on all four. More will arrive soon enough.

Exactly my thoughts too.

dogmatic tribalism

I sense those sentiments as well. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this happen either; it’s happened a lot throughout technology and when art medium changes. (Example: Analog purists against digital film and music).

There are some things we should draw the line, and it’s usually when we lack ownership (i.e. streaming and corporate-owned clouds). But local LLM, it and the data lives in your computer. You still keep your data.