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an epicentre, not the epicentre.
Epicentre implies singular. Having multiple epicentres would defy the definition of a "centre".
No, it doesn't.
Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites
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#202The ideal platform for something like youtube would be to separate discovery from content. You host the content, and you can pick from UIs/algorithms for the discovery.
So Google video search plus your own website?
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If you own a site that has systemic issues with child pornography sharing and other illegal material, you probably deserve it.
It didn't have such an issue. 8chan being dropped showed well how cancel culture works, and how in the court of public opinion one is found guilty not on evidence, but on sensationalist news articles that outright lie, sitting free from the pains of perjury and cross-examination. I have not once in my life seen this child pornography or far-right content on 8chan that these news articles claimed infested it; one woul…
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#204I did not even know that Linus had his own site. Fantastic. I won’t be watching his videos on Youtube anymore! Hopefully, everyone I watch will have their own websites, so that I don’t have to visit Youtube.
If only there was some kind of really simple syndication so I didn’t have to visit 40 different sites to check if my favorite video creators have released anything new.
Please see dang's post up top.
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#205This article is a little on the surface level, but it's true. People were screaming about where platforms and digital sharecropping was headed all along... and we're here now. Youtube, which is basically digital free-to-air is even more centralised than old free to air. Youtube really is an extreme situation. They really dominate a whole medium single handedly and youtubers have shockingly little power in the whole t…
It's just incredibly hard to compete with Youtube. In a way that's Google's greatest achievement: they convinced everybody that they're entitled to host and stream 4K videos forever not only for free, but the creators get a share of the ad revenue despite fronting none of the hosting costs. It's an incredibly good deal. The amount of infrastructure and human resources required to merely keep a system like Youtube run…
With the major cloud providers charging upwards of $0.10 per GB of outbound traffic, it's no wonder that few even attempt to compete with Youtube.
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Youtube could easily just obliterate a channel today, for some video posted 10 years ago if they deem it bad enough. Doubt if you had your own platform you'd delete yourself for something cringe you said 10 years ago
The general "danger" of old videos comes more from people digging up what was said and causing a shitstorm because of it, rather than Youtube themselves going out of their way to delete channels because of old videos. If people want to dig through your old videos and want to cause a shitstorm, self-hosting isn't going to protect you.
I think I agree that uploaders face more of a threat from censorious activists reviewing their old material than they do from retroactive deletion prompted by YouTube policy changes, but surely self-hosting would provide some protection, assuming the audience would be willing and able to transition to a different source?
It seems to me that hosting and payment processing companies ultimately present the greater service denial risk for uploaders with an established audience, though YouTube can definitely hamper new viewer discovery, and there is more competition (and therefore more alternatives) in hosting and payments.
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(This is a stub reply so I can collapse the various comments responding to this, so as not to distract too much from the rest of the thread. Sorry, non-JS users.)
> It's not wrong, of course, but it's been repeated for many years and won't lead to fresh conversation. Assumes there are no new readers on HN and that everyone reads almost everything and nothing needs repeating. Also it's very 'no noobies' as if anyone who is anyone should know the ropes already. And that is not the case. And I've mentioned this before a few times so I will repeat. Why don't you have in your profi…
I think you're underestimating the ability of HN readers to figure things out. Perhaps that is the answer to both questions.
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>> one day around the election GoDaddy made a decision to cancel them > Huh. How could they just do that? It eventually went back up right? > Do you have more examples? The first big deplatforming case was probably Cloudflare pulling The Daily Stormer. This is what Cloudflare CEO said: > "Literally, I woke up in a bad mood and decided someone shouldn't be allowed on the Internet. No one should have that power." Seems…
Wow that's extremely fucked up. He's right, nobody should have that power. If they do have that power, we should take it away from them.
> Wow that's extremely fucked up. He's right, nobody should have that power. If they do have that power, we should take it away from them.
I agree. We should make the government use its monopoly on force to take freedoms away from people we disagree with. How dare a company decide with whom it does business and under what terms?
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's not wrong, of course, but it's been repeated for many years and won't lead to fresh conversation. Assumes there are no new readers on HN and that everyone reads almost everything and nothing needs repeating. Also it's very 'no noobies' as if anyone who is anyone should know the ropes already. And that is not the case. And I've mentioned this before a few times so I will repeat. Why don't you have in your profi…
I think you're underestimating the ability of HN readers to figure things out. Perhaps that is the answer to both questions.
For what it’s worth I agree with the parent comment. This is the only forum I’ve ever seen where moderators are not clearly labeled as such.
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#210> Linus Sebastian
Something to understand, for those who might have just seen some youtube videos of him being goofy, is that he's an actor. The guy on camera doing stupid stuff is a stage persona. It's an intentionally cultivated image and media persona to get as many video views as possible.
I sort of see him as one possible aspect of the low/medium budget TV production stuff which is common in his home city, Vancouver BC. People who've met and worked with him in person report that he's a much more normal, calm, rational individual off screen.
I won't judge him for being goofy on camera because it's hard to make a living as a working actor. For every person who gets a job in a vancouver-produced TV drama that might last 2 or 3 seasons, there's dozens more people who are working as restaurant servers while trying to get their big break.