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[–] 74 points 1 year ago (25 children)

It says (updated) but what is the update?

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  • [–] 79 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    YouTube restored the video, but not until Jeff had made a huge stink about it (and rightfully so, those yt fuckers can eat a dick).

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, and it was a one off restore, so others who are mentioning self hosting will still be taken down as long as that policy remains.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

    I hate youtube so much. When are they moving all to freetube peertube or something? How long do we all accept Google youtube?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    They're the 800lb gorilla, and no other platform can create "youtuber" income, so it's a real problem for people like Jeff Geerling to move from yt, even if they know it's bad, because it's a major part or all of their income.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    When are they moving all to freetube or something?

    Unless I'm missing something Freetube is a client. So it wouldn't be Jeff moving to freetube it would be you using freetube to watch his content on YT.

    I'm guessing you meant peertube instead of freetube and your answer there is "When they can get paid." Making content takes time and costs money and YT pays creators like Jeff for doing it.

    I dislike YT alot but there's financial decisions at play here that can't really be argued with.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Have there been any announcements for plans for monetization on PeerTube? Any idea what that would look like for creators?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    It's not one or the other though. Peertube with patreon can exist alongside YouTube

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    Patreon is just one source of income. Ad revenue is another. Its good to have more than one source if you wanna make a living with it.

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    I guess I missed your point lol. Is it possible to paywall a peertube video behind Patron?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's possible to post unlisted videos that are only visible to folk with the URL.

    Its good for folk who want to give their subscribers early access

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    Wait, does it? I thought they have better integration with Patreon to determine if you have access to the video. I guess I never checked if I can still open YouTube videos of channels I'm no longer subscribed to on Patreon.

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  • [–] 147 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Update (one day later):

    YouTube has just reinstated the video, after what I presume is a human review process. I wish it didn't take making noise on socials to get past the 'AI deny' process :(

    Go forth, and self-host all the things! I'll post further updates in this issue in my YouTube project.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Go forth, and self-host all the things!

    He means self-hosting as in hosting his own PeerTube instance? Right??? 🙏

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    if you read further, he writes about peertube too

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes, he says he's dependent on the ad revenue. However, no one is asking for him to drop YouTube. Also posting on PeerTube will simply have him reach more viewers. It won't move viewers away from YouTube.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    People don't pay. They say they would but they don't. So we are stuck with YouTube and ads. I know people complaint about them but what is the alternative. People have to eat.

    And yes I block ads I don't care but I understand why they are needed. And for some reason most don't block them.

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  • [–] 69 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Yeah I remember once when my friends Synology started acting harmful when he run jellyfin on it. it started off gasing mustard gas. It poisoned the well and made his son addicted to zyns. All of the cars in his neighborhood needed new batteries. The country's GTP dropped a lot that month and the ozone layer is gone. Thank God YouTube stopped platforming such harmful content. Too bad so luch damage has already been done.

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  • [–] 123 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I think a few folks haven't read the article or know who Jeff Geerling is. The title of this article is confusing.

    Jeff posted a video on YT about how to self-host your own media in 2024. He recently got a violation from YT that YT considers his video to be harmful and dangerous. He appealed, got denied, but then the update is that YT removed the violation.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Saw the video… It mentions ”ripping” and even shows clips of some blockbuster movies. No wonder any copyright-sensitive automation gets triggered pretty fast. This will only get worse.

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    It's pretty harmful to Googles cloud business.

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Jeff should consider hosting on Peertube and keeping his Patreon active. He's awesome and more than capable, I'd mirror him in a hot second.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    He's on float plane. I think he's trying to make a living, so I'd assume YouTube ad revenue is a factor

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He's on float plane

    I'll never support anyone on that platform. I'll never do anything to give LTT a cent.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah I'm not big on LTT either, I'd like to see him on Nebula. The price is reasonable and they have some really good high quality content.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I seem to remember Jeff explaining his choice, and a big factor was that Nebula doesn't have comments under videos, nor any other similar forums for video posters and watchers to chat. I think he said he wouldn't be happy without that direct interaction.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I admit I don't watch every video, I'm subscribed but I just kind of let videos come to my home feed and watch that way. I mainly use YT as background noise while doing something else.

    His reasoning makes sense, so I guess I'll just continue to watch on YT since I have no desire to join FP. Thanks for the info!

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Hey kid.... You wanna self host an api call? 😈

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago* (14 children)

    Isn't that what an mp3 players main purpose is? Are mp3 players bad now?

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  • [–] 99 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes cause they can’t sell you a subscription for your mp3 player.

    Fucking rent seeking behaviour from corporate parasites.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    MP3 players aren't bad, they're just mostly obsolete when smartphones can do the same thing and we mostly already have one.

    I like to keep several GB of music on my phone from my MP3 library, and I have no streaming music accounts. I pay once for my music at most.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Your phone is an mp3 player. It just does other stuff too.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I remember when the iPhone came out, it was a little more than an iPod that made calls. The rest is history.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think you might be misremembering; the original iPhone had YouTube, maps (though it lacked a GPS for whatever reason), a camera, Safari, and even a primitive HTML based App Store that paved the way for modern PWAs. Games like Bejeweled were available months before iOS 2.0 came with the App Store.

    The Moto ROKR was an iPod that made calls.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    You're right. It was released almost at the same time as the 1st gen iPod touch, and that iPod ran the same OS as the iPhone (then named iPhone OS). I thought the iPod touch came before, it didn't. The iPod classic was significantly different from the iPhone.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    it would be amazing if geerlingguy was the one to make youtube go mask off

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