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2 categories = ["News"]

3 tags = ["News"]

4 title = "A YouTube Alternative for our Video Content"

5 image = "/images/blog-cover-images/unsplash/meerkats-agent-j.jpg"

6 author = "Dan Brown"

7 draft = false

8 date = 2023-08-04T21:30:00Z

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11 Since setting it up in 2021, the [BookStack YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/BookStackApp)

12 has grown to be a fairly significant repository of guides and visual project updates.

13 Our following on YouTube has also grown reaching 1.5k subscribers, which means I can

14 even earn from our content on the platform as an extra minor revenue stream.

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16 While this is all great, YouTube does have it's issues.

17 Advertisements can be forced upon users, impeding access to guidance with forced commercialism,

18 and people may have legitimate privacy concerns about YouTube and it's Google ownership.

19 This is probably more likely in our audience too since we're an open & privacy respecting platform ourselves.

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21 For these reasons I've set-up an alternative option for consuming our video content

22 which can be found here: [BookStack on Foss.video](https://foss.video/c/bookstack/).

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24 This is a [PeerTube](https://joinpeertube.org/) instance I've set-up to host content for BookStack

25 and potentially other similar open source projects that need a home.

26 If interested, you can find additional detail on the creation and my intent for foss.video

27 on [my personal blog here](https://danb.me/blog/foss-video/).

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29 One great thing about PeerTube, is that it can be part of the "Fediverse", so you can follow

30 and comment on our videos through other platforms like Mastodon via the `[email protected]` handle.

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32 The YouTube channel will remain up of course, with these two options running in parallel.

33 Links to videos in our documentation will prefer foss.video links, to ensure privacy respecting

34 and interruption free access to guidance.

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38 <span style="font-size: 0.8em;opacity:0.8;">Header Image Credits: <span>

39 Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@agentj?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Agent J</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/xJ-GlSTpvxI?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a>

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