I wish just by having my jellyfin server up media companies would actually get hurt, like fiscally hurt.
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Every time a new episode is imported, a random tech higher up gets a cramp.
Oh if only...
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Amen!
If you're located in EU this could be a great case for DSA-based mediation. If you're pissed maybe try reaching out to a DSA appointed mediator in your country?
Jeff is located in St. Louis Missouri unfortunately.
Oh, it's dangerous and harmful all right : to their business model.
I think the big G is probably starting to get pretty nervous about self hosting. It absolutely is a threat to their existence. They are nothing without users.
There's a lot of us fed up with enshittification and every video that helps people break free of their capture is extremely dangerous to them. Seriously.
I agree with you and also YouTube’s real power is the network effect of literally everyone being there. I want so badly for something like Odysee to work but there’s just nothing there.
I think it may be less direct and it's troll companies and shitty AI.
Yeah, this is definitely a broken corporate system issue rather than a nefarious plot. Google takes down, demonitizes, and issues trikes for all kinds of bogus shit, their system is so incapable of nuance that "nuance" isn't even the right word anymore. There's no evil scheme to silence self hosting, just a horrible, miserably dysfunctional content moderation system that regularly trashes peoples livelihoods if it comes anywhere near prohibited topics.
If the mistake causes a big enough problem they cares about, like bad publicity via a large channel complaining, they'll probably fix it after a whole protracted mess of a situation. But if it doesn't cause a problem for them it doesn't get fixed. They just really suck at handling the scale of content they host.
And I might empathize that it's a hard thing to do, if they weren't an effective monopoly and a horrible company.
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i oughta upload a video in the vein of "it'd be a damn shame if someone mentioned that i'm hosting a peertube instance" lmao
PUT DOWN THAT JELLYFIN SERVER AND NOBODY NEEDS TO GET HURT!! THIS IS YOUR FINAL WARNING!!!
YOU ARE UNDER ARREST FOR FELONY CONTEMPT OF BUSINESS MODEL
WATCH OUT, HE'S REACHING FOR HIS NAS!
BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!
Another dangerous terrorist eliminated.
Some in the fediverse ask why I'm not on Peertube. Here's the problem (and it's not insurmountable): right now, there's no easy path towards sustainable content production when the audience for the content is 100x smaller, and the number of patrons/sponsors remains proportionally the same.
How is this preventing Jeff from also uploading his videos to PeerTube? It can literally be automated by PeerTube.
If the Linux Experiment can, then why not Jeff as well?
The thing is peertube wont grow unless the people aware of it start advertising and using it as an alternative. It takes collective investment in building the audience on an alternative for it to become viable.
It might be against YT ToS but he could have shorter versions on YT and say the full version is on PeerTube. Biggest issue rn is probably advertising. Most people wouldn't think to look on PeerTube, if they know it exists, so nobody wants to post to PeerTube. The Reddit API fiasco was a boon to Lemmy so this could be as well, but steps need to be taken while outrage is fresh.
Peertube has a major disadvantage, though. It does not come with prebuilt revenue stream to cover your hosting costs.
In other words, he would become the customer, not the product, which comes with the certain set of advantages and disadvantages.
edit: or he could spin up his own instance, which would result in him having one more fulltime job :)
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There are a dozen other venues for revenue. We need to move, as a society, away from advertising as a business model. It has become detrimental to society.
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He's already hosting a ton of other things, obviously, so the additional load would likely be extremely minimal. And if he was accumulating a large load that would mean he was wrong about not being enough users.
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An easy peertube + Ghost spin for content providers could probably be a viable business model
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Agreed. Im seeign a lot of new faces in peertube land. Its been a pretty good time.
I kinda want to do a "best of peertube 2025" and get a couple of 10 second clips together just for fun. Just like a "best of" with some collabs if possible.
I'm surprised YouTube still lets you list your PeerTube channel in your YouTube channel description.
I try to drive all my YT traffic straight to PT
The best alternatives for creators to obtain revenue are Bandcamp and Odysee, they have an fair business modell. Certainly when YT said selfhosting is harmfull, it's only for their business modell, but if creators create their own pages with their work, it's not really a solution, it will be interesting only for direct fans.
problem with odysee is that it's full of nazis so nobody wants to use it. like literally, one of the first videos that comes up is from the nordic resistance movement. and since it's based on the lbry blockchain illegal content can't be removed, only hidden from the frontend.
Certainly also nazis upload their trash there, same as in all other platforms, seen include in Mastodon instances, also in YT. That cant be avoided in public accesible platformas.
yeah but on other sites that gets removed. if you're blockchain-backed, it stays online. also, most places remove hate speech. if you're a "free speech absolutism" platform, guess where all the nazis are gonna go.
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Let's also not forget Google wants you storing your photos on Google Photos, listening to music on YouTube, buying / renting movies from the Google Store, and streaming from Google TV.
It isn't just YouTube. It's their whole ecosystem.
By the way, I have a NAS setup. Was it pricey? Sure. But it cost about what it would to watch the NFL this year, and should last several years.
This only shows that they are starting to take it seriously. Its a good thing thus happened. Lets the streisand effect take its toll and watch the change happen.
Btw, feel free to visit my peertube and watch some of my videos: https://peertube.giftedmc.com/videos/local
The Streisand Effect doesn't apply here. They're not making news about it, they're silencing content posts on their platform. If Google went out and started using takedowns on other platforms, that's when you start to get a compound media effect because site owners tend to broadcast to their readership; in this case, the only people who notice both the takedown and the cause is the author. And us, because OP told us, but we're tiny.
After so many people stayed on Twitter, and after companies like Apple reversed their policy and went back to advertising there, I've lost faith in any mass internet movement. Most users don't care, as long as they're getting free stuff, and most content providers insist on using it because of monetization. If that's where the content is, that's where the users will go.
Most users don't care, as long as they're getting free stuff
Sad, but very true in my experience. I find even my friends who work in software engineering and have exposure to the bad sides of what technology can do, just don't take any efforts to change. They addicted to Instagram, to Amazon, and everything else.
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They'd ban the RPi if they could too
Next they'll say "not giving your entire life savings to google considered harmful".
++++ for making people aware of Peertube.
I know peertube is the fancy right way to self-host videos, but does anyone just post movie files directly to their website anymore? Seems pretty easy to throw mp4s into a folder on your web server…
That's a pretty rough way to serve videos if you get popular. Peertube at least does some peering to help mitigate your server load.
Yeah the p2p nature of it means it scales really well if anything goes viral. Not to say throwing a video on some video tags in HTML isn't a bad idea.
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