PSA: #YouTube has begun blocking import on many hosts, including the one we use at TILvids. This means that auto-sync for channels will no longer work, which puts incredible pressure/effort on creators like @thelinuxEXP trying to make content available in multiple locations. Because of this, expect there to be some disruptions in content availability.
This is why it's so important to support non #Google software and services, because they are swiftly becoming a bad actor in the world of #tech
It would be the server pulling the videos, so if the server is regularly polling and downloading videos for a stack of channels, it wouldn't be hard for them to identify, either as a potential malicious actor, or as a potential competitor.
Yes, YouTube most likely blocked an entire IP range on our host, which got us swept in. So it's not so much that they're targeting PeerTube, but it just shows how much power they have to stop people from accessing "the Internet".
@tilvids @thelinuxEXP Here's a "controversial" take: Google is not the bad actor here. Video streaming is expensive, and they use ads to subsidize this. An IP address which downloads lots of videos (and watches zero ads) is a tax on their resources. Shoe on the other foot: if Google were ddosing peertube servers, you would be justified in blocking their IPs too!
@tilvids @thelinuxEXP
Creators: stop treating YouTube as first class and others as backups.
Viewers: stop watching YouTube (literally your life will be better)
Developers: stop making youtube-dl frontends. Make peertube clients that do the p2p thing so we all share the load.
The thing is, @thelinuxEXP 's latest video on YouTube has over 22k views as of the time of this post. In order for TILvids to pull down the video to sync it on our server, that's literally just one view. I am willing to bet that all of TILvids has probably sync'd less than 400 videos, which is roughly 2% of the views of a single TheLinuxExperiment video after 12 hours.
In other words, allowing TILvids to sync costs YouTube effectively nothing.
Agree with you on all points though
#Castopod has built a System for "premium content".
You can declare a whole channel or only one sequence as "premium content"
User can join the channel via registering system (i.e. a form in your oown nextcloud or a professional paying system) and the premium content is free for this user.
You can set a free listenable teaser fot the premium sequences,if you want.
I think peertube needs exactly this solution.
Castopod btw. is a podcast-solution federating in the fediverse.
@thelinuxEXP @tilvids
Take it as inspiration or entry-point the development.
The intention is good,
the permission-model is good
the registration can be automated.
more phantasiy is needed
@tilvids @thelinuxEXP
You can join the discussion here, i started month ago...
@tilvids @thelinuxEXP and one more reason to hate big tech added to the list