Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their videos worldwide

Post by flukus » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 3:19 AM UTC

pavs wrote: post #52

toomuchtodo wrote: post #29

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Blender serves as an optimal test case for other large non-profits with online video content that Google may push off YouTube (would love to see PyCon move their archives off as well). Discovery and subscriptions will need to be solved, but that’s not insurmountable (ie RSS). CDNs can be plug and play in front of nginx (if P2P torrent isn't your cup of tea), backend storage can be whatever is cheapest.

If only things were so simple. This reminds me how not too long ago, how everyone was trying to make a clone of HN and Reddit within 24 hours in x programming language. It's one thing make a service for few 100 users, it's a different beast to serve millions of users. In case of Online Videos, it is not only extremely difficult, it still remains very expensive. There is literally a handful of companies who can financ…

Post by melq » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 3:26 AM UTC

ChuckMcM wrote: post #215

The next step will be that you won't be indexed by Google's web search engine if you don't have AdSense for Content ads. Why? Because the steam is going out of Google's ad business[1], and Google has no other business. They have added just about all of the advertising on their own pages they can get away with and they started by squeezing channels with fewer than 4k views a month, and now their squeezing channels tha…

Post by caf » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 3:48 AM UTC

larkeith wrote: post #96

Applejinx wrote: post #62

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Nothing. They gain by use of a chilling effect: most of the seemingly negative actions and expectations they're known for, tend to rebound in favor of their core business. It's all meant to be Logan and Jake Paul and PewDiePie and whatever will drive low-quality mass views so long as the viewer quality isn't so low that they're losing advertisers. At a scale like this, it's just pure statistics. This is not damage. T…

While there are certainly benefits, I can't agree that YouTube loses nothing here. PeerTube is a potential competitor in an ecosystem that's currently functionally monopolistic, and even in a vacuum, having a nontrivial community move to that platform will immediately increase awareness and provide legitimacy. Perhaps more importantly, the FOSS and tech communities are not a vacuum. Google and YouTube in particular h…

Post by DoctorOetker » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 4:05 AM UTC

blihp wrote: post #182

notatoad wrote: post #143

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YouTube has little to no competition right now. By kicking blender out, they're forcing blender to promote an alternative to YouTube.

That is potentially the real story here, IMO. Ton has a track record of doing amazing things with impossibly small amounts of money. Given that his interests are in (video) content production, I'm not sure YouTube really thought through how this could play out...

Post by mark_edward » Wed, Jun 20, 2018, 4:17 AM UTC

Larrikin wrote: post #236

thaumasiotes wrote: post #230

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...wouldn't that be a logical place to post your YouTube criticism? Do you think Martin Luther weakened his message by nailing his criticism of the church to the door of a church? Do you think picket lines are misguided for surrounding their targets when they could picket unrelated areas farther away?

It has become a pretty common complaint lately that people should only have their protests in places where the only people that will see them are the people that already agree with them.