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[–] [email protected] 43 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Yeah I remember once when my friends Synology started acting harmful when he run jellyfin on it. it started off gasing mustard gas. It poisoned the well and made his son addicted to zyns. All of the cars in his neighborhood needed new batteries. The country's GTP dropped a lot that month and the ozone layer is gone. Thank God YouTube stopped platforming such harmful content. Too bad so luch damage has already been done.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Yes, exactly. The server I run jellyfin on kept promising me cake, though I am fairly certain the cake is a lie.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Synology is already enshittifying itself

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I would go so far as to say they are already in a shit state, but they're just not stopping the process yet.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's pretty harmful to Googles cloud business.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 hours ago

Who would win:

  • A 2 trillion dollar multinational technology company
  • Some guy's hobby project
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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I think a few folks haven't read the article or know who Jeff Geerling is. The title of this article is confusing.

Jeff posted a video on YT about how to self-host your own media in 2024. He recently got a violation from YT that YT considers his video to be harmful and dangerous. He appealed, got denied, but then the update is that YT removed the violation.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jeff should consider hosting on Peertube and keeping his Patreon active. He's awesome and more than capable, I'd mirror him in a hot second.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He's on float plane. I think he's trying to make a living, so I'd assume YouTube ad revenue is a factor

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He's on float plane

I'll never support anyone on that platform. I'll never do anything to give LTT a cent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm not big on LTT either, I'd like to see him on Nebula. The price is reasonable and they have some really good high quality content.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

I seem to remember Jeff explaining his choice, and a big factor was that Nebula doesn't have comments under videos, nor any other similar forums for video posters and watchers to chat. I think he said he wouldn't be happy without that direct interaction.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Flotplane is a decent enough alternative. They keep gutting YouTube's ad-rev, sooner or later, something will have to give.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It says (updated) but what is the update?

[–] [email protected] 148 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Update (one day later):

YouTube has just reinstated the video, after what I presume is a human review process. I wish it didn't take making noise on socials to get past the 'AI deny' process :(

Go forth, and self-host all the things! I'll post further updates in this issue in my YouTube project.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

All European citizens have the right to object to automated decision making under the GDPR

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Go forth, and self-host all the things!

He means self-hosting as in hosting his own PeerTube instance? Right??? 🙏

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 day ago (17 children)

YouTube restored the video, but not until Jeff had made a huge stink about it (and rightfully so, those yt fuckers can eat a dick).

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it would be amazing if geerlingguy was the one to make youtube go mask off

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Google has been mask off since they removed "don't be evil" as their slogan, and they've been proving it ever since. Apparently people don't pay attention!

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

Isn't that what an mp3 players main purpose is? Are mp3 players bad now?

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes cause they can’t sell you a subscription for your mp3 player.

Fucking rent seeking behaviour from corporate parasites.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Correct, if you ain't streaming from corpo, you are denying them engagement and profits

That's a crime, shit Lord

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey kid.... You wanna self host an api call? 😈

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

You wouldn't steal an API call...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Would YOU download an API call?

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

Would you create an api to download an API call?

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