52% of YouTube videos live in 2010 have been deleted

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 7:12 PM UTC

the_biot wrote: post #19

toomuchtodo wrote: post #12

Would love to crowdsource an effort to buy enough disk space to backup YouTube to the Internet Archive and have ArchiveTeam perform the archival op. Assuming ~35PB of content stored at YT, should cost roughly $70M for IA to buy the necessary storage infra and maintain it into the future (their costs are ~$2/GB for perpetual storage).

If you've spent any time on YouTube, it's painfully obvious much of it is not worth archiving at all. Clearly if you had some critera to select videos that are worth preserving, this task would become a lot more doable. But what could those criteria be? You can't just select out all those fast-talking "influencers" that shill and lie their way through hours worth of video just because they're shit, because sometimes…

Post by Wowfunhappy » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 7:13 PM UTC

MrYellowP wrote: post #22

NetBeck wrote: post #20

YouTube is deleting pre-2010 videos, meanwhile anything is still possible at https://www.zombo.com

I've clicked that. There's a circle, with circles around, with something around one of these smaller circles. All of it is spinning. I've managed to click the spinny thingy and it turned into quadratic spinny thingy. That's all. What the fuck? Please explain!

Post by MrYellowP » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 7:20 PM UTC

the_biot wrote: post #19

toomuchtodo wrote: post #12

Would love to crowdsource an effort to buy enough disk space to backup YouTube to the Internet Archive and have ArchiveTeam perform the archival op. Assuming ~35PB of content stored at YT, should cost roughly $70M for IA to buy the necessary storage infra and maintain it into the future (their costs are ~$2/GB for perpetual storage).

If you've spent any time on YouTube, it's painfully obvious much of it is not worth archiving at all. Clearly if you had some critera to select videos that are worth preserving, this task would become a lot more doable. But what could those criteria be? You can't just select out all those fast-talking "influencers" that shill and lie their way through hours worth of video just because they're shit, because sometimes…

Post by themadprogramer » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 7:53 PM UTC

the_biot wrote: post #19

toomuchtodo wrote: post #12

Would love to crowdsource an effort to buy enough disk space to backup YouTube to the Internet Archive and have ArchiveTeam perform the archival op. Assuming ~35PB of content stored at YT, should cost roughly $70M for IA to buy the necessary storage infra and maintain it into the future (their costs are ~$2/GB for perpetual storage).

If you've spent any time on YouTube, it's painfully obvious much of it is not worth archiving at all. Clearly if you had some critera to select videos that are worth preserving, this task would become a lot more doable. But what could those criteria be? You can't just select out all those fast-talking "influencers" that shill and lie their way through hours worth of video just because they're shit, because sometimes…

Post by themadprogramer » Thu, Jul 14, 2022, 7:56 PM UTC

MrYellowP wrote: post #22

NetBeck wrote: post #20

YouTube is deleting pre-2010 videos, meanwhile anything is still possible at https://www.zombo.com

I've clicked that. There's a circle, with circles around, with something around one of these smaller circles. All of it is spinning. I've managed to click the spinny thingy and it turned into quadratic spinny thingy. That's all. What the fuck? Please explain!