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YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy (www.usermag.co)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does this mean users won't be able to see videos hosted on other platforms from your instance?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thats a good question.

Users are still able to see their videos, it just does not create a local copy unless you enable that on your server. Its just a pass-though.

EX:

You can see that more clearly here:

And here is my subscriptions (looks and functions identical to Youtubes subscriptions):

But the videos are on their respective servers.

Federation still occurs (and admins can be very specific if they want):

Hope that makes sense!