I know a Russian who's just using a VPN now.
I'm sure there's still a lot of Russian traffic that is now shifted to other countries.
Just goes to show that russians have had (until recently) relatively easy access to independent information within a few clicks on their smartphones.
I will also note that many reliable news organizations (BBC, DW) started their russian language YT news programs as far back as 2010. This is also true for well regarded local independent news (TV Dozdh).
How will they know what influencers to follow?
How did they measure it? People can still use VPN
Using VPN would mean that IPs would not longer be from Russian IPs, therefore, Russian IPs accessing Youtube would drop.
80% of people watching YouTube in Russia are now using a VPN.
That would be my guess.
Youtube needs to die.
Peertube is the future.
Peertube in it's current form is not a replacement for anyone other than tech nerds and it's not gonna change unless some real changes are made to how the platform fundamentally operates.
This is just my opinion so correct me if you think I'm wrong. Many of these problems have plagued the site for a while.
Peertube has surged to 52.2k mau!
I'm really hoping now that they have an official app. It will help the growth some. You can tell it's very early days for it, but I think it has a lot of potential.
Which peertube client do you recommend (android and iOS)?
Lol if only they'd ban YouTube here, then we wouldn't have to deal with wannabe influencers
Wish granted, you now have television influencer Fucker Fuckersen
Be above the Influence.
YouTube is the best thing that happened to the working class. Access to human knowledge
But yes many ended watching Ben Shapiro or some other bootlicker
Ah yes, no influencers at all on Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster... Just youtube.
You're right; we should ban all those garbage sites too
RIP Russian gun YouTubers.
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
