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Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by 0xffff2 »

betwixthewires wrote: post #121
0xffff2 wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube provides content curation in addition to mere video hosting. In the current state, I can open up my YouTube subscriptions page and see a list of all new videos from people I'm interested in. If every video creator hosts their work on a different platform, I no longer have a one stop shop for video consumption. I subscribe to lots of people on YouTube, but there are probably only two or three that I care enoug…

I think curation might be one of the drivers of the problems we have nowadays, I'd prefer a host that does no curation. > If every video creator hosts their work on a different platform, I no longer have a one stop shop for video consumption. Yes you can, use an RSS reader and subscribe via RSS. This problem was solved before tube sites were even widespread, and then the UX for subscriptions devolved, primarily becau…

I used to use RSS a decade or more ago. It always felt clumsy and half-supported at best. Perhaps you could share what RSS reader you use?

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by bmsd_0923 »

corobo wrote: post #48
fragileone wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a peer-to-peer video client, with part of it's data being directly shared (similarly to torrents) and part via a blockchain. This makes it highly resistant to censorship and thus is where many people are moving their channels to.

> This makes it highly resistant to censorship We should probably stop using this phrase as a feature Instant thought was "ok so other than this channel it's all racism"

What we really need is to stop listening to people who have this kind of attitude.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by brigandish »

intpx wrote: post #102
christophilus wrote: post #71

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> ok so other than this channel it's all racism It's sad that that was your instant thought. My experience so far with Odysee has been pretty good. It's no YouTube, but for the channels I follow, it's good enough. I hope it continues to to build momentum.

the only thing sad is that its the reality of the situation. Tor started off with some pretty pie in the sky ideals and now over half of its active use is for illegal activity. Tech censorship doesn't even register on the scales of stuff that is de-platformed from social networking platforms.

illegal activity is a phrase that covers things that are actually wrong, and increasingly, things that we are told are wrong by our betters.

How much of the “over half” is the former and how much is the latter?

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by slightwinder »

corobo wrote: post #48
fragileone wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a peer-to-peer video client, with part of it's data being directly shared (similarly to torrents) and part via a blockchain. This makes it highly resistant to censorship and thus is where many people are moving their channels to.

> This makes it highly resistant to censorship We should probably stop using this phrase as a feature Instant thought was "ok so other than this channel it's all racism"

This is not so far from the truth. In the past, censorship usually only happens to people doing something illegal, meaning copyright infringement, radical political content or other disturbing content (usually porn or violence-related). So most of those people have seek for alternative platforms where they are free.

But more and more the line is shifting, and we see censorship happening with far tamer content. Youtube specifically seems to crack down on security-related content for a while now. I've seen similar things happening over trivial content in the past. Things which nobody working in the business would consider as problematic, like how to setup VPN and firewalls. It's not really clear why this is happening. People at Youtube are claiming the content seems to be ok, but system says nope.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by RegnisGnaw »

caeril wrote: post #118
gambler wrote: post #87

Any large communication platform has a choice: either accept some form of content neutrality or become a petty and chaotic tyrant constantly reeling from one public backlash after the other. YouTube made its choice. Now, random videos and channels get demonetized, content gets deleted for no reason and people covering basic news speak in code to avoid the wrath of the idiot AI. In the background Google publishes bats…

> either accept some form of content neutrality or become a petty and chaotic tyrant constantly reeling from one public backlash after the other No, there is a middle ground that Google, with its army of engineers, could implement in a weekend: 1. You stop trying to assume you know what advertisers want their ads to be displayed on. 2. You implement a basic, fixed (but can be expanded) ACL-type system based on catego…

Your plan fails, lets say they implement what you do. Let say that company X advertises but only on the safe subjets. Then my immediate attack will be:

"Company X advertises on a website showing jailbait sexual content" or "Company X advertising on a site promoting Q Conspiracy".

You are going to fight an uphill battle explaining to people the naunces of the system, which is a losing battle.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by sophacles »

sprafa wrote: post #101
onei wrote: post #77

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There's a difference between trials and it being suitable for public use though, right? It is undeniably a horse dewormer, and has had some use on humans, but not as a covid treatment. For me, it's about preventing people that aren't medical professionals from self-medicating with a potentially harmful substance. Plus there's been some less than stellar suggestions of covid treatments in the past ranging from dubious…

I would hope so. My point about “horse dewormer” is that some articles in the media list it as just that without mentioning at all that it is also human medication. Look at the recent articles about Joe Rogan, they couldn’t stop themselves. Afaik the only difference between human and animal ivm are levels of impurity.

That's because people are literally buying and eating horse dewormer. Its in a package that says "horse dewormer" on it. It's sold at livestock stores in the "horse medicine" section. The media is 100% correct to call what people are poisoning themselves with "horse dewormer".

I bet you get mad at the news for reporting rain because water exists in other forms, and has other ways of moving about besides rain right?

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by betwixthewires »

0xffff2 wrote: post #131
betwixthewires wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think curation might be one of the drivers of the problems we have nowadays, I'd prefer a host that does no curation. > If every video creator hosts their work on a different platform, I no longer have a one stop shop for video consumption. Yes you can, use an RSS reader and subscribe via RSS. This problem was solved before tube sites were even widespread, and then the UX for subscriptions devolved, primarily becau…

I used to use RSS a decade or more ago. It always felt clumsy and half-supported at best. Perhaps you could share what RSS reader you use?

Sure. On desktop I use Thunderbird, on mobile I use something called Feeder, it is a FOSS RSS/Atom feed reader with built in Webview so you can watch the video in app if you like.

YouTube and Bitchute both support RSS, also Peertube has RSS built in if you watch anything self hosted using that software, as far as all the other tube sites out there I'm not sure because I don't subscribe to anyone on those sites, but I would expect that they do more than likely as RSS is still a web standard.

All but Peertube I've found sort of hide syndication in some way to encourage their account based subscription because they'd rather you use that. It might take a minute when you want to subscribe on a new site you don't usually use to figure out their feed URL format.

It can be a little clunky to add subscriptions I guess, but how often are you doing that? What matters more is integrating all your subscriptions into one feed, you're watching every day multiple times a day, you're not subscribing every day.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by dom111 »

EastToWest wrote: post #125
hapless wrote: post #114

It appears to have been banned when the author offered an illegal sweepstakes. Contests and sweepstakes are carefully regulated in America, with slightly different regimes in all 50 states. You should not run one unless you have gotten legal help with it!

Source? The creator's twitter doesn't mention that at all.

It's implied here: https://twitter.com/thelinuxEXP/status/1435107199785832449

but no more detail than that I can see...

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by slightwinder »

vorpalhex wrote: post #111
devwastaken wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being studied, not accepted in use in humans for COVID. Blame the idiots injecting themselves with the actual horse versions, and the doctors/vets illigally prescribing it. IVM is as useful as eating dirt in relation to COVID, until proven otherwise with studies that aren't fabricated data or otherwise p-hacked to death - it's disinformation, and rightfully removed.

Remember when posting the lab leak hypothesis on Facebook would get you banned and now it's, as best as we can figure, the most plausible theory? There is no human run group fit to decide what is or is not "disinformation".

To be fair, the bans usually were about china fabricating the virus on purpose and releasing it with intention, accompanied by racism against Asians. This is pretty different from the accidental leak of a research-object, which is now the accepted theory.
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