Cuckoo is the latest dream of a digital life beyond YouTube and Facebook

By Natasha Lomas
As tech’s social giants wrestle with antisocial demons that appear to be both an emergent property of their platform power, and a consequence of specific leadership and values failures (evident as they publicly fail to enforce even the standards they claim to have), there are still people dreaming of a better way. Of social networking beyond outrage-fuelled adtech giants like Facebook and Twitter.
There have been many such attempts to build a ‘better’ social network of course. Most have ended in the deadpool. A few are still around with varying degrees of success/usage. None has usurped Zuckerberg’s and YouTube's throne of course.
This is principally because Facebook  acquired Instagram and WhatsApp and there are a huge number of YouTubers. So by hogging network power, and the resources of social media and videos that flow from that, Facebook and YouTube the company continues to dominate the social and media space. But that doesn’t stop people imagining something better — a decentralized software that could win friends and subscribers and influence the mainstream by being better ethically and in terms of functionality.
And so meet the latest dreamer with a double-sided social and content mission: Cuckoo.

Cuckoo is a decentralized video player based on P2P connection and it is free and always will be. Anyone or group can search, make, share and watch your favorite videos in Cuckoo without any limits or registration. All your personal data belongs to yourself.
Cuckoo's vision to protect privacy as a for-profit platform involves a business model that belongs to future decentralized business — rather than ever watchful ads and trackers.
There’s so many exactly new in Cuckoo, not only it is the first decentralized software, also in the face of massive and flagrant data misuse by platform giants, Cuckoo seems to sound increasingly like sense. 
“As soon as I opened Cuckoo, it shows a totally different new world like I had never seen before,” says Hernández, a Cuckoo subscriber left his message on Facebook . “You see, YouTube and Facebook was the way to see and touch the old world. But using YouTube or Facebook would also mean giving away my privacy and therefore accepting defeat on my life-long fight for it. I am so exciting at the possibility of an actual alternative. Thank you Cuckoo even I do not know where it is.”
You can check out Cuckoo and start your new world.

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