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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/22423685

EDIT: For those who are too lazy to click the link, this is what it says

Hello,

Sad news for everyone. YouTube/Google has patched the latest workaround that we had in order to restore the video playback functionality.

Right now we have no other solutions/fixes. You may be able to get Invidious working on residential IP addresses (like at home) but on datacenter IP addresses Invidious won't work anymore.

If you are interested to install Invidious at home, we remind you that we have a guide for that here: https://docs.invidious.io/installation/..

This is not the death of this project. We will still try to find new solutions, but this might take time, months probably.

I have updated the public instance list in order to reflect on the working public instances: https://instances.invidious.io. Please don't abuse them since the number is really low.

Feel free to discuss this politely on Matrix or IRC.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why? What else would we call them?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To answer the "why", it's because the word "content" is kinda meaningless. Instead of making films, documentaries, talk shows, reference guides, cartoons... it's all just this generic "content" slop that's just there to feed the machine

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's not that strange, I have a friend who literally said the same thing today in reference to one of his favourite channels shutting down. He preferred to call the stuff on this channel art, rather than content. I agree with the person above too, the term has always bugged me. It makes it sound so mass produced, like your job is to just produce meaningless "content" for people to mindlessly consume. And to be honest, that's exactly what the mainstream YouTube culture is about.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I mean, you don't call it whatever you like, but content is the technical definition of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I agree with this a lot. I really do not like the term "content". It is like going to a recipe for some "slop", like using a term that is just a catch all for everything tossed on a plate.

Art is great. Movies, music are also fine terms. And so is simply saying they made a video. Watering it all down to the term "content" is just so boring and mind numbing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Not really. The term "content creator" is corporate speak. Google's ad-based business model has a binary classification: content and ads. It's not an inaccurate term, but using it implicitly endorses the corporation's binary world view.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Words is funny sometimes.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Call them what they truely are. Digital panhandlers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's pretty insulting, a lot of what YouTube creators do takes real skill, and it's a full time job for many.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In the past maybe, but certainly not these days. It's overglorified corporate money grab propaganda, that goes around shamelessy guilt tripping viewers when truth is spoken. Much of these so-called content creators do not much else than making face react videos to something they saw and just talk about their likes or dislikes. They get paid lots just to make a soy-jack face and shitty clickbaits. The amount of money some them get paid is large sums insane for little efforts in proportion to what worth it actually ought to be. There people out there putting real efforts and labor to contributions to society to keep it running that paid squat in comparison. Its sad really. Go ahead downvote me, it doesn't change the truth i speak.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Entertainers. Show women/men.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Showman/woman refers to a pretty specific type of performer, I.E someone who is on stage typically.

Entertainer isn't a label I'd necessarily apply to educational content, for example.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Not all content is entertaining. Someone who makes tutorials I wouldn't call an entertainer. That's why "content creator" is used as a catch all term to cover all of it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Show women/men sounds like a 70s porno "medical" exploitation film