@ShravanVasishth@dbellingradt Students who don't use adblockers (which seems to be most of them) get ads when they are asked to watch our videos (didn't used to be the case for educational videos but #YouTube changed that a while back). I find that quite problematic. Also, they then get suggestions for further videos, some of which are really quite horrific.
You want proof that it's possible to watch #YouTube without being fed unwanted suggestions? I've always said that the YT suggestion engine is good to me. While I watch an enormous amount of YT relatively, I've never been offered any right wing garbage, for example.
And today I realized that even though I've heard the name "Mr. Beast" and vaguely recall hearing about his mass cataract surgery giveaway, I've never seen a Mr. Beast video, never been suggested one by YT, and knew effectively nothing about him until I read a CNN article today.
@lauren my #youtube recommendations are all math, chess, and Eurovision performances. I’ve never heard of any of these supposedly famous “YouTube personalities”
I have long suspected that the PeerTube model was better. Make “the main show” independently hosted content, and then if you want, you can bridge to youtube as a side show. I think it is and was totally predictable that lawyer letters would eventually come to Invidious. If you’re not dependent upon accessing videos from YT, you can shut that down if necessary without losing the reason your video site exists.
YouTube acaba de censurar la documental de Igor Lopatonok de la cual Oliver Stone es el productor, Ucrania en Llamas (2016), sí..., 6 años después. #youtube#censorship#censura#rusia#ucrania#bigtech
@aral ...and by "small Web", I take it you mean the original Web — before corporations like #Facebook#Twitter#YouTube#Instagram created centralized "choke points" for news/content — the original, decentralized, thousand-flowers-blooming WWW.
Remember "mirroring"? Screw Web3; Web4 is going to go back to Web1.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2019 16:57:55 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}I primarily use #YouTube for four things: (1) network-connected media streaming ... I don't have to carry my music with me; this one makes sense until you realize that I travel with two Sansa Clip+ MP3 players, so I have much of my purchased music with me already. (2) music discovery ... sometimes, I come across something I have not heard before (or in a long while); if I watch / listen several times, I typically order the CD (and rip to one of the above-mentioned players). (3) music / video sharing ... It is better and easier to send a link to something than to try to send a whole music file (and YT worries about copyright laws so I don't have to). (4) educational / tutorials ... I do watch learning videos, such as how to cook apple pie from scratch or how to recognize whether the scorpion that bit someone is dangerous to humans. (This actually happened. The stings from the pale yellow scorpion in the California desert hurt a lot, but do not put the victim in any danger.)
Right now, (1) is threatened by the implied message of their recent ToS/ToU change: if your channel does not generate enough visits, we may close it. I think (2) and (3) would only be affected if a whole lot of channels are shut down. (4) is probably even more threatened than (1), but since these videos often have low viewer counts, the bandwidth might be easily handled by one's own site.
You can avoid #YouTube's weird algorithms and broken subscription system by subscribing to channels through RSS instead. You don't need an account, just a feed reader.
#nazis fighting #refugees getting thanked on youtube. "If the politicians won't stop the boats then we will stop the boats." - Lauren Southern, altright and youtube fame, in action with the generation #identity. https://youtu.be/uAV0eI6MnrA?t=1m39s