From: Dan Brown <redacted>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 22:00:59 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Added foss.video blogpost
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Added foss.video blogpost
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+categories = ["News"]
+tags = ["News"]
+title = "A YouTube Alternative for our Video Content"
+image = "/images/blog-cover-images/unsplash/meerkats-agent-j.jpg"
+author = "Dan Brown"
+draft = false
+date = 2023-08-04T21:30:00Z
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+
+Since setting it up in 2021, the [BookStack YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/BookStackApp)
+has grown to be a fairly significant repository of guides and visual project updates.
+Our following on YouTube has also grown reaching 1.5k subscribers, which means I can
+even earn from our content on the platform as an extra minor revenue stream.
+
+While this is all great, YouTube does have it's issues. 
+Advertisements can be forced upon users, impeding access to guidance with forced commercialism,
+and people may have legitimate privacy concerns about YouTube and it's Google ownership.
+This is probably more likely in our audience too since we're an open & privacy respecting platform ourselves.
+
+For these reasons I've set-up an alternative option for consuming our video content 
+which can be found here: [BookStack on Foss.video](https://foss.video/c/bookstack/).
+
+This is a [PeerTube](https://joinpeertube.org/) instance I've set-up to host content for BookStack
+and potentially other similar open source projects that need a home.
+If interested, you can find additional detail on the creation and my intent for foss.video 
+on [my personal blog here](https://danb.me/blog/foss-video/).
+
+One great thing about PeerTube, is that it can be part of the "Fediverse", so you can follow 
+and comment on our videos through other platforms like Mastodon via the `bookstack@foss.video` handle.
+
+The YouTube channel will remain up of course, with these two options running in parallel.
+Links to videos in our documentation will prefer foss.video links, to ensure privacy respecting
+and interruption free access to guidance.
+
+---
+
+<span style="font-size: 0.8em;opacity:0.8;">Header Image Credits:&nbsp;<span>
+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>
+</span></span>
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