Post Aau3KcrGpfgMoDNfvs by mikebabcock@floss.social
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(DIR) Post #AapsfLUqhYYCuqjOW8 by tilvids@mstdn.social
2023-10-16T18:21:09Z
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This is the latest #youtube "innovation". #Google with a market cap of $1.7 trillion and $120 billion cash on hand, "needs" to charge for ads on YouTube.This is, of course, not true. They have more than enough revenue to run YouTube without ads in perpetuity, but they want to please shareholders. The #Peertube community is showing how you can distribute the costs of hosting content as well. If you don't support Google's continued monetization of monopolized video...vote with your feet.#tech
(DIR) Post #Aapug4EwXvdnarlNpo by sfunk1x@tusk.sfunk1x.com
2023-10-16T18:43:39Z
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@tilvids This is somewhat troublesome for folks that run adblockers at the edge network rather than on client devices. It was a good run YouTube, using my peertube instance much more lately and for the foreseeable future I guess!#peertube #adblockers #youtube #ads #pfsense
(DIR) Post #Aaq5Hvsv3fXWE59jIe by accessamy@mstdn.social
2023-10-16T20:42:38Z
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@tilvids YT is unusable without an ad blocker.
(DIR) Post #AaqCX7jI09oqz6qHq4 by vSwingy@mastodon.social
2023-10-16T22:03:46Z
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@tilvids the second this popup becomes unskippable, I’m out. I have no issue with a reasonable amount of ads (hi twitch ig) but these guys are literally pushing beyond the limit of what’s bearable every 6 months. On top of that, with cost of living as out of control as their profits, they have the audacity to suggest subscribing to their premium tier at a whopping 13.99 (!!) a month. Spreading the poison and *renting* you the cure, smh. “Do no evil”, right?
(DIR) Post #AaqUgyY8mjceaJTW2y by Chozo@kbin.social
2023-10-16T23:55:30+00:00
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@tilvids Bad take, imo. YouTube already ran at a net loss for about a decade before ever having a profitable quarter. Video hosting is an incredibly expensive endeavor, especially for an enormous platform like YouTube which allows users to upload nearly unlimited video data at no upfront cost. Just because Google has a lot of money doesn't mean that they can sustain a massive platform like YouTube at a loss forever, nor should they have any obligation to do so.If anything, the poor playback quality, long buffer times, and lack of moderation and copyright enforcement on PeerTube are excellent examples of why cheap video hosting doesn't work, even at the much smaller scale that PeerTube operates within. I think what you want is a smaller-scaled platform, which PeerTube is good for. But that's not the type of product YouTube is, nor should they aim to be.
(DIR) Post #AaqUh8ZDXaQReY3W76 by tilvids@mstdn.social
2023-10-17T01:27:15Z
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@Chozo PeerTube makes it pretty straightforward to scale up with mirroring instances, peer-to-peer distribution, etc. The reason YouTube is so expensive to run is because of its centralized nature.Expect to eventually see YouTube evolve into the cable model of both mandatory monthly subscription AND ads. Google has been using their free model to dominate the market and freeze out competition. They're going to try to cash in on that now.
(DIR) Post #AaqVsRNK3KTD7oRh4q by Candyhog@masto.ai
2023-10-17T01:40:32Z
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@tilvids My response to this is to close the alert and watch on like before … it's a bluff at this point!
(DIR) Post #AaqdCixf4pgj8d3uV6 by Chozo@kbin.social
2023-10-17T02:57:31+00:00
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@tilvidsThe reason YouTube is so expensive to run is because of its centralized nature.I think it has more to do with maintaining a massive CDN with hundreds of server farms caching content for a worldwide userbase so that users can watch a video that was uploaded on the other side of the planet without having to buffer. Plus maintaining their social features, extended editing tools, notification services, paying moderators, handing copyright claim issues, etc.Sometimes there's actually more to the story than just "corpo bad".
(DIR) Post #AaqdCjz7GuRiJQkaPI by tilvids@mstdn.social
2023-10-17T03:02:39Z
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@Chozo Our PeerTube instance is based out of Germany, which means it loads great for much of the EU, but videos were slow to load for the US. It took less than a few hours to spin up a second instance in the US, set up a mirroring strategy to the main site, and now videos load very quickly in the US. The problem isn't setting up CDNs, per se, it's the centralized nature of YouTube.And again, Google's revenue is high enough that they could absorb this easily, as they have for 15+ years.
(DIR) Post #Aaqj6cb2QbDRNwxAqO by Chozo@kbin.social
2023-10-17T03:57:03+00:00
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@tilvidsYour instance also has like 1% of the functionality that YouTube does. No immediate user registration, no integration into third-party platforms, no TOS, no copyright enforcement, no auto-captioning, no playlist support, no support for "shorts"/"stories"-formatted content, no interactive functions like in-video cards, no rental/purchase options, no partnerships with studios and other rights holders, limited livestreaming options... etc. The list goes on.Not saying any of this to try to dunk on TILVids or PeerTube in general, just saying that we're talking about two wildly different product types, which cater to two wildly different audiences. YouTube is providing an order of magnitude more features and functionality to their platform than what PeerTube is currently capable of. The business models that work for PeerTube aren't really comparable.The SOPs that work for your platform are nigh impossible to work for YouTube. It's like the difference between a local crokinole tourament compared to the NFL.
(DIR) Post #Aaqj6dKPhtVnegBPZQ by tilvids@mstdn.social
2023-10-17T04:08:47Z
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@Chozo Ask yourself if any of that is inherently a bad thing.
(DIR) Post #Aar5qtPEScJ7pctsEy by dynode@mas.to
2023-10-17T08:23:38Z
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@tilvids @Chozo Nice, the good old YouDontNeedThat.If people ask for certain features that some open platform or open source software does not offer they actually don't need those, simple 🤪
(DIR) Post #AarQ3V12S6M92Cs9ia by anderspuck@krigskunst.social
2023-10-17T12:10:00Z
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@tilvids 70 percent of the ad revenue goes to the creator, and they probably don't have enough money to work for free.
(DIR) Post #AasvlsUFq6oSJA8h1M by matt@oslo.town
2023-10-18T05:40:05Z
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@tilvids @ChrisWere The day they enforced this block was the day I installed a browser extension to redirect to an Invidious instance. 🙃#YouTube #Adblock #adblocker #Invidious #Firefox #AddOns
(DIR) Post #AaswFu1Ehxy7kMsoIi by AZR9VrKBALDGzYbmYi.hyperreal@fedi.hyperreal.coffee
2023-10-18T05:45:32Z
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@tilvids There's also Invidious, which is a privacy-friendly frontend for YouTube with zero ads. https://github.com/iv-org/invidiousI run an instance myself at invidious.hyperreal.coffee.
(DIR) Post #Aat9TpL6Cc7mgw8yQa by MartinaNeumayer@mastodon.social
2023-10-18T08:13:42Z
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@tilvids Greed unfortunately manifests itself in things like this. She has already pushed many people and corpos as well to the brink.
(DIR) Post #AatOcMh1ZpY3lUvclE by nicemicro@fosstodon.org
2023-10-18T11:03:19Z
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@tilvids I ignored PeerTube for a while with the reason that most people are on YouTube, and there are ways to watch my content there for privacy conscious people , too.Now things have changed enough that I finally sent my registration request to TILvids.#YouTube #PeerTube #advertising #FreeSoftware
(DIR) Post #Aau3KcrGpfgMoDNfvs by mikebabcock@floss.social
2023-10-18T18:39:31Z
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@tilvids this is irrational logic. Company A earns $X.Therefore company A doesn't need to charge for Y.See? No link.In reality, Company A earns $X largely because of ad revenue on platform Y, and pays out creators from said revenue, as well as profiting from it. So yes, I fully sympathize with any company running 500 petabytes of video storage wanting to retain their passive revenue stream.If you don't want to give them ad revenue, go watch videos somewhere else.
(DIR) Post #AavQeNApLhnO3ksDEO by koberulz@aus.social
2023-10-19T10:35:30Z
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@tilvids The problem with foot-voting is that it just makes you miserable.None of my Twitter community moved over here. I see only one or two posts a day on Lemmy, which rarely have comments. BookWyrm doesn't even have most of the books I'm reading.I have yet to see one of these open source options be anywhere near as good as the thing it's trying to replace.
(DIR) Post #Ab9UNAlKDuivjKCGwq by publiclewdness@gameliberty.club
2023-10-26T05:23:14Z
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@tilvids I had already decided to ditch Youtube a while ago but it's nice they keep giving me more reasons.