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PSA: 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 software and services, because they are swiftly becoming a bad actor in the world of

@tilvids @thelinuxEXP Our instance does not seem to be affected. How would youtube stop the import? Based on the IP? As far as I know peertube uses youtube-dl to grab the videos and import them. Perhaps if most of your users do that then your IP is "suspicious" to youtube and it will block it.

@tio @tilvids @thelinuxEXP

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.

@tio

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 I see yah that totally sucks. Unless you will try to change your IP or you can post on Peertube's github and ask what's the solution for this. Same way Invidious manages to somehow get around this issue by using IPv6 maybe Peertube can do the same. Open an issue about it.

@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.

@zachdecook

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

@tilvids @thelinuxEXP could you use youtube's api to let people mirror their tilvids uploads on youtube?

@tilvids @thelinuxEXP

#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.

@jakob @tilvids The issue with Castopod is that (AFAIK), it’s all manual: you have to add users manually or remove them manually according to what’s happening to your external system, which isn’t really sustainable in the long run

@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 and one more reason to hate big tech added to the list