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Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube

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Post by ainiriand »

imgabe wrote: post #12
herewulf wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a good chance to suggest viable alternatives? TIA.

Don't watch youtube? Want educational content? Read a book or a technical blog post or documentation. Want entertainment? Read a book or watch a movie or TV show. I've never found anything that great about YouTube.

I am not sure why this is actually downvoted. I was a YouTube premium subscriber, but then they started with their shenanigans and I decided to shift my attention to other things. It is not like I cannot go there once in a while to check on a particular video, but it is not for entertainment anymore.

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Post by kazinator »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #14

> In that case, I was happy to see my appeal granted within an hour of the strike being placed on the channel. (Nevermind the fact the video had been live for over two years at that point, with nary a problem!) Looks like some L-(5|6|whateverthefuck) just got the task to go through YT's backlog and cut down on the mention/promotion of alternative video platforms/self-hosted video serving software. Quick appeal grant…

> L-whateverthefuck

LM

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Post by pdpi »

deadalus wrote: post #15
herewulf wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Youtube Alternatives : https://odysee.com Bitchute Rumble

As much as we need an alternative to YouTube, Rumble’s whole gimmick is basically “we don’t block nazis”. Insofar as supporting problematic businesses goes, that’s out of the frying pan and into the fire.

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Post by MonkeyClub »

lawn wrote: post #8
herewulf wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Download videos from YouTube to Jellyfin or Plex. Yeah, there's no real alternative to YouTube for most people.

There's Vimeo, BitChute, Odysee, and Rumble, and even Substack and the Internet Archive support video uploads. Not to mention Twitch, Kick, and the newer cohort.

But YouTube has recognition, and insane infra. That's very hard to match, let alone beat.

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Post by kuratkull »

AStonesThrow wrote: post #9
boomboomsubban wrote: post #4

The video they made does not encourage piracy, but even if it did it seems bizarre to flag that as "Dangerous or Harmful Content."

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People are free to rip their purchased media. He even says that he buys blurays/dvds in the article. One can assume anything, but a completely legal setup can look exactly like that. Especially as most of those are relatively old movies - looking like a list of purchased blurays/dvds to me.

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Post by odysseus »

AStonesThrow wrote: post #9
boomboomsubban wrote: post #4

The video they made does not encourage piracy, but even if it did it seems bizarre to flag that as "Dangerous or Harmful Content."

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He says he bought all his own movies and tv shows on physical disc and ripped them for personal use.

He explains it in this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ8ijmy3qPo and even shows some of his physical disc collection.

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Post by mitthrowaway2 »

AStonesThrow wrote: post #9
boomboomsubban wrote: post #4

The video they made does not encourage piracy, but even if it did it seems bizarre to flag that as "Dangerous or Harmful Content."

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I have like 50 DVDs in my collection. Do you have a problem if I make backups?

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

herewulf wrote: post #6
emocin wrote: post #3

Yeah, harmful to their revenue. Fuck YouTube

This is a good chance to suggest viable alternatives? TIA.

Unfortunately there's a black-hole-like gravitational inescapability from Youtube due to its network effects over its lifetime. Hopefully this can be slowly and eventually counteracted.

In the meantime, there's Invidious, LibreTube, NewPipe, Skytube, ReVanced and probably a few others that can be used as protest. In addition to browser extensions that manage to filter out YT ads. One of my favourites is iSponsorBlockTV which, when casting to a TV, automatically skips ads once the button is enabled, and mutes the ad in the meantime.

None of these answer your question, but your question has a number of aspects. Nothing can replace Youtube one for one if you're counting all of its "things" - and this is mentioned in the article.

There are numerous alternatives to certain parts of Youtube which are likely easily found via search or AI query: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/list-some-alternatives-to-y...

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