LoFi hip hop radio – YouTube channel suspended, then restored
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#2I hate YouTube. I wish there was any legitimate competitor out there.
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#3Is moving to PeerTube a viable alternative?
Re: LoFi hip hop radio – YouTube channel suspended, then restored
#4Already outdated.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChilledCow/status/123130292661164...
Re: LoFi hip hop radio – YouTube channel suspended, then restored
#5The channel has been restored.
https://twitter.com/ChilledCow/status/1231302926611644421
This is another case where having a large, supportive audience is one of the only ways of getting Google's attention.
Re: LoFi hip hop radio – YouTube channel suspended, then restored
#6I marked the post with outdated because YT channel has been restored.
Re: LoFi hip hop radio – YouTube channel suspended, then restored
#7A little background on this particular channel:
ChilledCow is the user who had a stream named "Lofi hip hop, music to relax/study to". The channel was undoubtedly the most popular lofi music live stream on youtube, and has been around for a few years at least (pretty sure). The channel just streamed a playlist of lofi music as a pseudo radio station. Nothing nefarious in my opinion, but I speculate the argument could be this user is making youtube ad money playing other people's music (with or without permission from the artist)? But again, it's basically a radio station (really no different from analog FM/AM things).
Really interesting to even see this posted on HN. I was looking for ChilledCow's channel while I was cooking lunch today, couldn't find it, and wasn't sure why.
Re: LoFi hip hop radio – YouTube channel suspended, then restored
#8It's increasingly difficult to have "business" with the big tech. I lived many years anxious with my Google AdSense account. Recently it a was a Facebook Ads account banned without any clear reason, and a 5yr old Pinterest account too.
When the algorithm decides, you are terminated. It just don't matter if you follow all the "TOS" rules.
Re: LoFi hip hop radio – YouTube channel suspended, then restored
#9Is moving to PeerTube a viable alternative?
Not really. The way that people use this live stream is often via YouTube integration with other services rather than via YouTube directly.
Re: LoFi hip hop radio – YouTube channel suspended, then restored
#10I hate YouTube. I wish there was any legitimate competitor out there.
Define "legitimate." There are plenty of competitors which could host the channel mentioned in TFA, and many Youtubers also post videos on other social media sites, Twitch, etc.