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• @xeno@hexokina.se 2026-08-24 03:01

  Right now the best place to find this kind of DIY science stuff is YouTube. Don't get me wrong- I enjoy making videos, and the fact that anyone can publish their project is a big deal. But I can't even show a friend my own videos without four billion ads. Last video I pulled an all-nighter on a family vacation right before a bike trip- because YouTube decided that their stupid licensing bullshit wasn't bullshit enough and they were going to take back all unclaimed non-expiring music licenses in a few weeks time. I know Hackaday exists, they're probably the closest "well-known" thing to follow in the spirit of The Amateur Scientist. But they generally only show stuff that's already been made popular. And especially for science stuff they're just pointing you to the original...... YouTube video. I really doubt we're going to get any kind of decent alternative for video just bc of the bandwidth requirements. I've long wanted to work on some kind of text/blog/article thing- eventually I found MAKiT's Library is trying to make something maybe not exactly like that, but to balance peer review and standards with openness in letting anyone who should be able to publish throw something up there. https://sliceofpie.eu/ It's a super cool project but I also kinda think the amateur science / diy scicomm community desperately needs some kind of aggregator that isn't the YouTube algorithm or a party upstream of it.

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