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Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 11:40 PM UTC

dmix wrote: post #3

About 50% of the videos were by Chinese people. Interesting to think how Asian a random sampling of the earth's population would be. North America is only 7.6% of the global population but overwhelmingly dominate in popular media. Great site.

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Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by josscrowcroft » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 11:48 PM UTC

j6m8 wrote: post #25

Everyone keeps saying they saw such beautiful things I just got stuck watching a guy eat an entire jar of mayonnaise without stopping [EDIT] Just realized that the websockets that fuel the video transitions are suffering the same 503s as the other assets — so the feed 503'd, and I got stuck on an unending, non-changing video of a guy looking into the camera as he ate so, so much mayonnaise.

I got the mayonnaise guy as well!

Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by pokemon-trainer » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 11:49 PM UTC

j6m8 wrote: post #25

Everyone keeps saying they saw such beautiful things I just got stuck watching a guy eat an entire jar of mayonnaise without stopping [EDIT] Just realized that the websockets that fuel the video transitions are suffering the same 503s as the other assets — so the feed 503'd, and I got stuck on an unending, non-changing video of a guy looking into the camera as he ate so, so much mayonnaise.

As someone who regularly searches IMG_0123 to see things like "mayonnaise man" before astronaut.io existed: you must share the link to the video. There's no excuse for the lack of a link.

Also, this service does not work with iOS, which is a shame.

Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by yeukhon » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 11:53 PM UTC

Nice idea, but the domain name - not a fan, just saying. I'd better reserved astronaut.io for something actually related to being an astronaut.

Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by efangs » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 11:54 PM UTC

Cool! I made (almost the exact same) thing as a twitter bot awhile ago: https://twitter.com/sub500

Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by efangs » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 11:55 PM UTC

Cool! I made (almost the exact same) thing as a twitter bot awhile ago: https://twitter.com/sub500

Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by abe_duarte » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 11:57 PM UTC

Amazing, so many moments.

Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by mastazi » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 11:58 PM UTC

I am increasingly at odds with the concept of curation. Youtube, Netflix, Google News, Facebook and many other web portals increasingly try to serve what "suits me" using sophisticated algorithms, but what if I don't want that? Every traveller knows that the best trips are those that you didn't really plan that much, which end up being an adventure. If you are driven by curiosity the unexpected is a blessing. For this reason I enjoy Astronaut and other projects such as GeoGuessr (https://www.geoguessr.com/) because they are a reaction to an overly curated, safe-space, no-surpises web experience.

Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by abe_duarte » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 11:58 PM UTC

Amazing, so many moments.

Re: Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views

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Post by pryelluw » Tue, Jan 17, 2017, 12:01 AM UTC

This feels like I'm inside a sci-fi movie set in some space colony. While being the main character, who is sick of being out there. Alone. I watch videos to remind me of Earth. Of people. Its a beautiful sense of sadness and longing.