That sounds expensive. They’d rather change the law. Again.

While this could be a good idea in theory, I guess in practice many people will be dishonest and just vote for whomever they wanted from the beginning

Of course there is! They could spend more money in PR campaigns and _bribes lobbying

I’m all in favour of prosecuting Google for it’s search monopoly, but Trump only cares about using the monopoly in his own favour

Given that neither twitch nor YouTube will let you, you should look at Owncast; but I don’t know about a particular server for that

I’m sure they understand the problems, and they understand that solving them would eat into their profits

It’s like solar energy. You either absorb it with a panel, or it goes to “waste”. You’re not really stealing it from someone else, as long as you’re not getting too much in the way

Meta made a twitter clone when they had the chance, they’ll happily make a YouTube clone.

I don’t think Amazon or Microsoft are very interested in entering that market, but they are the only ones with the money and compute to support such a platform.

Maybe Netflix could be interested? But I doubt it

The nice thing about the fediverse is that you could start your own instance and not federate with them