From the creator of SponsorBlock: DeArrow, an addon that changes Youtube titles and thumbnails to crowdsourced ones

Synthead, 8 months ago

This extension is paywalled! It costs money, and asks for payment when you first open it.

ruutkoodilugeja, 11 months ago

Awesome! I've become so accustomed to SponsorBlock doing its thing that I can't imagine watching Youtube without it.

I hope this takes off and maybe help combat AI-generated content, for example, by giving potential viewers a heads-up that the video is bunk (text2voice reading ChatGPT hallucinations over stolen visual material).

Kara, 11 months ago

This is an interesting idea, similar to the one news app, which is doing the same with sensationalized titles. But I'm not sure if I'd want it for Youtube? Like if a video has an annoying thumbnail, I probably don't want to click on it, and I also probably don't want it hidden from me

noodlejetski, 11 months ago

okay, so I posted this via kbin to technology@beehaw.org, but when I view that community through Beehaw's website it's not showing in that community. am I tripping, is it because of the current traffic issues, or is my understanding of the Fediverse completely wrong and I'll have to set off on a journey of finding myself all over again?

yelgo, 11 months ago

AFAIK, each fediverse instance (kbin.social, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org) stores a local copy of relevant posts, comments, etc based on what the users of that instance are subscribed to. All interaction with the fediverse is always done through your host instance, which then synchronizes with the fediverse in the background. Basically, each instance checks what communities it's users are subscribed to on other instances, and then contacts the other instances to fetch that data from them.

So when you post to technology@beehaw.org on kbin.social, the post is saved to kbin.social's database for technology@beehaw.org, and kbin then needs to sync it back to beehaw.org for it to appear there.

I believe that kbin is having some network issues right now, (I think someone is trying to ddos it) which is affecting its ability to synchronize with the rest of the fediverse currently. Once kbin and beehaw sync with each other again your post should appear there.

noodlejetski, 11 months ago

makes sense.

and re: DDoS, I suspect it's the good ol' hug of death rather than an intended attack.

yelgo, 11 months ago

Yeah probably the hug of death, someone on the post I linked mentioned that kbin is on the front page of HN and is getting a lot more traffic through the Streisand effect of Reddit banning subs created to promote it like what happened with Lemmy.