First off, I'd like to see some additional proof that this isn't a hoax. There's other people in that thread claiming it's real, but I have yet to see anything other than the image posted. Assuming it is real however, this is another baffling decision Youtube has made in recent months. I assume the thought behind this is to try maximize their walled garden in some way, but unlike other sites Youtube has such a long h…
This limitation is only for live-streaming. It doesn’t apply to uploading videos. Most of your alternatives don’t have unlimited mass live-streaming features.
The number of platforms that allow free live-streaming to huge audiences is much smaller because it’s a relatively expensive thing to do.
That interpretation is unclear from that source. It's at least equally likely that a feature to tamp down on rebroadcast of sporting events and such has fouled broadcast of protests. Regardless of cause though, it would make YouTube a worse platform for live citizen journalism.
> That interpretation is unclear from that source. lol. "Several livestreams posted on Google’s platform last weekend by truckers protesting in Canada have had their audience limited... This creator explained that they have had the channel for seven years, with 90 videos and several streams..."
Yes. That is what the source said and the interpretation "it is targeting a very specific type of content: medical mandate protest coverage" is unclear from that source.
A recent change to the system to tamp down on resharing copyrighted data would catch those kinds of streams in the "blast radius," so to speak. Such a change would not be targeting that very specific type of content the GP comment describes. The source does not support that interpretation with sufficient evidence.
I see negative comments on this on here and (mostly) reddit. But the reality is this is simple and yet brilliant approach to stop misinformation and policy violators. May be even lazy approach to avoid doing the hard work. What does any policy offenders usually do? Create new accounts and post the same misinformation slightly modified. Between Youtube and PlayStore, google has seen enough of this trends. I am surpris…
This limitation is only for live-streaming. It doesn’t apply to uploading videos. Most of your alternatives don’t have unlimited mass live-streaming features. The number of platforms that allow free live-streaming to huge audiences is much smaller because it’s a relatively expensive thing to do.
PeerTube has livestreams, and they're even P2P load-balanced; this reduces the cost quite a bit.
Does anyone have more context? Or a link to a video showing this issue? This Reddit thread only seems to have a screenshot (though I didn’t scour the entire comment section). I’ve never seen this in the wild, and technically without a link I still haven’t seen it live at all. I’m wondering if the channel triggered some sort of anti-spam mechanism. EDIT: The only source I can find is from screenshots of right-wing Twi…
Over 50 subs and under 1000 subs == streaming is limited via mobile.
It doesn't matter how old your account, either -- I have an account with only 28 subscribers (somehow?) for several years and I get the same limitations on mobile streaming, namely that I can't even stream.
Technical workaround would be to set up a stream via desktop and use my phone as an RTMP source... but that's just a kludge.
This limitation is only for live-streaming. It doesn’t apply to uploading videos. Most of your alternatives don’t have unlimited mass live-streaming features. The number of platforms that allow free live-streaming to huge audiences is much smaller because it’s a relatively expensive thing to do.
I think it's a chicken-egg question.Live streaming is expensive, indeed, but we can do more to send people to alternative platforms to create content.Platforms will generally expand their 'free' plans once they amass users and become more serious.I think rumble has streaming for sure, not sure if free, but at this point at least the web experience is decent for youtube alternatives.The mobile experience through apps isn't there yet[though the web experience on mobile isn't terrible], but some promising ones are to be seen on stores like F-Droid.
Does anyone have more context? Or a link to a video showing this issue? This Reddit thread only seems to have a screenshot (though I didn’t scour the entire comment section). I’ve never seen this in the wild, and technically without a link I still haven’t seen it live at all. I’m wondering if the channel triggered some sort of anti-spam mechanism. EDIT: The only source I can find is from screenshots of right-wing Twi…
Mobile live streaming requirements: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9228390 Over 50 subs and under 1000 subs == streaming is limited via mobile. It doesn't matter how old your account, either -- I have an account with only 28 subscribers (somehow?) for several years and I get the same limitations on mobile streaming, namely that I can't even stream. Technical workaround would be to set up a stream via deskt…
> for several years
Old accounts are still hotbeds of spam... There are plenty of spammers who signed up for 100,000 gmail accounts back in 2010 when there were no good captchas, and have left them mostly idle till now, and can now sell them to others to use for spamming.