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Bryan Lunduke
March 22, 2024
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YouTube has a long history of making things difficult for The Lunduke Journal.

In the early days, The Lunduke Journal published all shows exclusively to YouTube (yeah, I know... a mistake).  And, for over a year of that time, YouTube demonetized every single video with the word "Linux" in the title.

Seriously.  They really did that.

If a video said "Linux is nifty" it was instantly demonetized.  As you can imagine, for someone who talks about Linux a great deal, this made earning a living from those videos incredibly difficult.

Now, in 2024, YouTube has kicked things up a notch.

The Lunduke Journal is no longer allowed to upload any videos to YouTube.  Not even allowed to post comments or text posts.  No communication with the YouTube subscribers, whatsoever, is allowed.

Why?  Because I speak my mind... I report the truth.  And that is not allowed on YouTube.  (I go into further details elswhere -- as it is a very serious, political topic -- but that, as simple and ridiculous as it sounds, is truly the gist of it.)

Luckily, this has very little impact on The Lunduke Journal.

The good news is that this was always inevitable... and I planned for it.

Any "YouTuber" who speaks their mind will eventually get banned or heavily censored on YouTube.  It's simply going to happen.  We all know that.

For that reason, over the last few years, I have encouraged people (rather strongly) to migrate their viewing (and reading) habbits to non-YouTube (and non-Google) platforms.  And that has been successful.

As such, in 2024, YouTube is not the primary way most people get my shows.  There may be roughly 60,000-some-odd subscribers on The Lunduke Journal's YouTube channel... but those viewers represent a small portion of the overall audience.

Losing 60,000 subscribers is a bummer.  But The Lunduke Journal will survive.

To those who have clung to YouTube: It's time to subscribe elsewhere.

There are lots of amazing ways to get videos from The Lunduke Journal.  Here they are... in order from "most recommended" to "still good, but not as awesome":

  1. Lunduke.Locals.com <-- Recommended
  2. Rumble.com/c/Lunduke
  3. X.com/LundukeJournal

If you subscribe at one place: Lunduke.Locals.com is it.  That will ensure you see everything -- including the exclusive stuff.  But free videos (including free live streams) are also available on Rumble and X going forward.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go fight the urge to begin writing a "YouTube Sucks" show...

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