Beau Miles, an Australian adventurer and super optimist, is trying to plant a bunch of trees.
A lot of Beaus content is about the power of positivity and the environment, I would suggest he is worth a watch in general. Even better when he is trying to achieve something worthwhile.
Can Lemmy help?
I would think that most of the Fediverse is inclined enough to have an adblocker
Then again, most of Lemmy doesn’t circumvent paywalls either
Look I am definitely… Well, not guilty… Let’s say a keen advocate of not having crazy amounts of advertising rammed down my throat.
However I think raw viewership will help with surfacing the video to a larger audience, surely YouTube sees “ad-free” viewership as still a valid barometer of mass appeal and would therefore seek to boost that video in hopes of getting more ad-supported eyeballs on it.
Or I am speaking out of my ass, who knows.
I was partially sceptic, but the idea does seem nice, and he was fairly honest. Lets hope he can reach a million views.
As long as he’s not planting a monoculture, it should be good and it can have my view 🙂
I tend to think there will be a degree of variety, I believe that often in our forests it tends to be the underbrush that tends to be the more varied with gum trees and some acacias being the larger species a lot of the underbrush develops under. That being said I am in no way an expert on forestry and would defer to just about anyone with a passing familiarity of Australian forest biodiversity.
Checking out his other stuff it doesn’t look like just one tree he’s been using. Very cool idea.
My wife is a big fan of his, as are my kids, I am less diligent a follower. But I can say his content is consistently quite good, and he really seems to live his public persona.
I like Beau, gave it a watch. Was at like 40k when I did.
