Post Ar8vcckcEjOO4n80i8 by leon_p_smith@ioc.exchange
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(DIR) Post #Ar8nFitQR2Oqpdolqi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-15T11:13:39Z
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The alternate timeline where youTube focused on "leanbacks" and methods to have better attribution for content and ways to ethically facilitate content such as "watch videos"There is value added by commentary, it ought to be possible for such content to be created all benefit.youTube never cared about this, they are fine with stealing unless you steal from people with expensive lawyers, in that case they instantly take the side of the expensive lawyers and "fair use" be dammed.
(DIR) Post #Ar8nUtbCubx8NdX0b2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-15T11:16:23Z
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We have the worst of all possible outcomes. Creation rights are abused and defended with zeal to the point that people avoid making possible excellent content (ask any music educator how they feel about making content for youTube, they get dinged for humming tunes)Meanwhile these rules don't serve the function of protecting small creators who get their stuff stolen relentlessly. It's very bad. Maybe when youTube becomes unusable, which it will some day, we can do better.
(DIR) Post #Ar8ni74c7t6vw0aYdc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-15T11:18:46Z
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Some context: "leanbacks" were a short lived youTube format where you could create a playlist of other people's videos and intersperse your own short videos between them. YouTube facilitated this by making the whole thing play like one long video. The views of the clips you showed went to the people who posted those videos! But, they discontinued it for some reason and of course now they are all just scattered heaps of videos that make no sense. But for a moment I thought it could work.
(DIR) Post #Ar8oA4J40VO5Sfg4GG by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
2025-02-15T11:23:48Z
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@futurebird Meanwhile I know an alternate service that literally began by ripping off Youtube (long before Google) that did monetization simply by decreasing video quality during busier hours for free users, added its own innovations, and not only allows people to hum tunes, but created a whole category to list them under through which whole careers have even been launched.Not trying to advertise it or other Youtube alternatives, just saying that even here in the beta timeline we're shown that it could be better than what we got stuck with.
(DIR) Post #Ar8pf5KCN3whYDYuBs by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-02-15T11:40:37Z
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@futurebird google: where good ideas go to die. See also: google search, google reader, google plus, so many other things.
(DIR) Post #Ar8uFFZc8yaHZuGzD6 by burnitdown@beige.party
2025-02-15T12:31:56Z
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@futurebird i would say it's very close to that point now. there are like 5 videos on youtube these days.
(DIR) Post #Ar8vcckcEjOO4n80i8 by leon_p_smith@ioc.exchange
2025-02-15T12:47:20Z
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@futurebird I wrote software at the request of my brother, it was used from 2013-2018 to answer E911 calls in Parke County Indiana, he never paid me, then he sued me claiming me as his "employee" that he admits in court to never paying a penny.To be clear, not only has he confessed to criminal violations of Indiana minimum wage law under penalty of perjury as a matter of public record, he has also plainly committed perjury, fraud, blackmail, and labor trafficking.Under no circumstances will I have anything to do with him again unless he first obtains a felony criminal conviction and serves multiple years in prison.
(DIR) Post #ArAP5pp1oDOyqIQuUC by lufthans@mastodon.social
2025-02-16T05:52:19Z
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@futurebird didn't expensive lawyers hand YouTube their own posterior in court multiple times?