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Technology Connections - You are being misled about renewable energy technology. (www.youtube.com)
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Amazing video by Technology Connections. It's a long one, but don't miss his 30 minute angry rant at the end.

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[–] 9 points 9 months ago* (5 children)

It's a lot of maintenance. I'm not knocking it, I'm just pointing out how difficult it is.

I hosted a pixelfed server for my city and it cost a few hundred bucks out of my own pocket. It was a test run so I can push my city to move their social media to open-source.

But the constant need to apply spam protection and abuse from visitors, not to mention abuse from users like copyright shit and even CSAM. My expensive side project became a full time job.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago*

    Locally!!!

    I'm hosting it in my own network. I access it. no one else!!

    And I'm doing it, so I can tell you: It's almost no effort hosting Invidious locally for yourself. It just works. And if YouTube breaks something every 2 months, you can usually "docker compose pull; docker compose down; docker compose up" and it works again.

    Just in case it is not clear: Invidious is an alternative YouTube frontend. In the backend, it uses YouTube. It's not some kind of Fediverse thing. You cannot upload videos with it / on it and you can be the only user ever using it.

    https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

    Conclusion: low effort to host locally.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    It amazes me how certain people just can't help themselves with CSAM. Disgusting.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    My theory is that it's just a handful of people who are using anything free to mirror that content, out of fear of losing it.

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