#YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad-blockers. This is just a gentle reminder that #tilvids has no ads, nor do we have any insight as to what extensions are installed in your browser. That's none of our business, just stop by, enjoy some videos, and if you feel inclined to support our effort, it's appreciated!
It's a great question, because creating content can be very time-intensive for the creator, and hoping to generate income so you can do it full-time is reasonable.
What I hope eventually happens with niche #PeerTube instances is they can be sponsored by a few corporate sponsors. While there are some potential ethical issues here, I believe them to be less so than constant bombardment of privacy-disrespecting ads. The revenue can then be split between the instance and creators.
In 2020, I published This is Fine: Optimism & emergency in the p2p network(https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/this-is-fine). It laid out a clear argument that the #fediverse is irreparably vulnerable because of its p2p nature and political naivete:
"Anyone with administrator access to an Instance can read anything that travels through that Instance’s infrastructure – including direct messages. The level of risk correlates with the number of cross-Instance interactions between users. If users from different Instances communicate, an attacker need only compel one Instance to reveal the direct messages between all of the interacting accounts. [...] In a peer-to-peer network without encryption, there’s no structure, no agreed-upon governance, and absolutely no protection. Compromising or compelling an Instance or its staff means that all of network traffic is laid bare to its assailant. [...] The decentralised community seeks to antagonise a powerful status quo whilst making tradeoffs that do not acknowledge how societies directly threaten their communities."
Today, Kolektiva - a anti-colonial anarchist instance - announced an FBI raid of one of their admins, which included the seizure of an entire copy of the Kolektiva instance.
This is literally the kind of situation I warned about nearly three years ago.
What do we do about this? Honestly, I have no idea. I've spent three years so far trying to get developers and advocates to care about this. I founded my own research firm, New Design Congress, specifically to get platform designers -- especially in the decentralized community -- to come to terms with this reality, that all infrastructure are expressions of power, and are at their very core political.
We've been blown off consistently, especially by people who ought to know better and who now either steer massive emerging projects, or act as major ideological activists for these platforms.
New Design Congress spent three years sending proposal after proposal to funders like @mozilla, Reset.tech, @EC_NGI, the @PrototypeFund, and others. We've been knocked back every time. We have never received direct support or advocacy from civic society organisations who champion the rebuild of a equitable Internet. We have only been able to continue our work and grow thanks to our NDC community and a handful of extremely forward thinking private organisations -- or, shamefully, organisations who have already been subjected to the precarity of decentralization.
Oh yeah! I just published a few of my older videos on my own peertube instance!
If you are in the maker/music/artist/synthesizer/diy realm and want to try peertube out as well please send me a DM on Mastodon with your e-mail address and a link to existing videos and I'll invite you to the instance.
Please be patient with me, I still need to figure stuff out and it might break or change a lot for now.
@polykit I have a couple hundred videos up on a peertube instance, and I was subscribed to the admin’s patreon, but the admin seems unavailable, and I can’t log in anymore because of a problem with 2FA. I post mostly eurorack videos. It would be nice to have a place to post new stuff, but I have to admit the idea of fracturing videos across different instances feels counterintuitive. Thanks for boosting @rasterweb…. we gotta figure out a game plan for this. #peertube#fediproblems
@penpot What an excellent execution, congrats to everyone involved!
The venue is professional, the inclusion of #peertube and even streaming with chat is a fantastic idea ... hopefully #blender#nextcloud will do this for their next conferences:)
So many great talks as well, bravo!! Thank you for supporting the #foss community.
YouTube could be testing a three-strikes policy for ad blocking
The push is to make viewers buy YouTube Premium.
Some #YouTube users with ad blockers are seeing a new three-strikes popup menu while watching videos.
"The popup menu in the screenshot suggests users will be barred from YouTube viewing after watching three videos with an ad blocker enabled." #Ad#ADBlocking
alright, I think it's time to translate the #NWB spec language to RDF and start on the first leg of getting this p2p thing off the ground and mirror all the neurophysiology archives. got a big stack of hard drives and bandwidth going to waste
LATEST VIDEO: Windows Users Sentenced To Life In The Cloud
(watch early on public blog [no paywall, no sign in fully public post for all] - w/appear on channels publicly later, after I complete thumbnail graphics)
This is great news. Between games nobody asked for, endless ads, and Shorts, hopefully users will finally be annoyed enough with #youtube to begin leaving the platform. 👋
Be sure to recommend your friends try out a #PeerTube instance like tilvids.com to experience a video community more reminiscent of how online video used to be. 💙
@tilvids Honest question: Where do I recommend people go? Don't get me wrong, I love TILvids, but you're pretty niche. I'm a geek, totally sold on the idea of the fediverse, and I still find it hard to find anything (else) to watch on #PeerTube. How can I tell my Mom to use it instead of YouTube to watch quilting videos?
Plus, hosting HD video at scale is so expensive, it's no wonder most instances don't even allow signups.
Not to complain; I really hope there's a solution. But what?
LOL, they want to make #YouTube an another VK or Odnoklassniki with "playables"! 😆😂 I don't want no shit in my video platform (and certainly don't want it to be another #RuTube.)
More the reason to invite people to @tilvids and other #PeerTube instances.
And if you have high resolution videos that you want to preserve quality of, manually upload them to #Odysee.
Is there a peertube platform or something similar for makers? I'm getting more and more fed up with youtube and can't see the advantage publishing content there anymore. Or do I need to set up a peertube instance myself? #maker#contentcreator#youtube#peertube#video
I'm currently looking into setting up my own #peertube instance. Usually you need a lot of disk space for videos which is rather expensive to get from a provider so financing it is obviously an issue. Also let's see how hard it is to operate it in real live. I'm trying to set up an instance which is scalable to somewhat extent. I want this to be big so other people from the maker/diy/artist/music/synth realm can try it out as well.
Ich brauche mal eure Schwarmintelligenz: Ich brauche einen Routenplaner, in dem ich mein Start und mein Ziel eingebe sowie die Abfahrtszeit.
Dann möchte ich einfach wissen, zu welcher Zeit in wann wo bin. Also wenn ich um 1300 aus #Wuppertal los düse mit dem PKW wo bin in ungefähr um 1900? Und wenn ich dann am nächsten Tag um 0900 weiterfahre, wo bin ich dann um 1700. Gibt es sowas ohne das selber machen zu müssen?
10 years ago, Edward Snowden changed the world. The 'Snowden leaks' were a wake-up call: The conspiracy theory that Secret Services were monitoring our private conversations has proven to be true.
Public backlash after this revelation might have bought us years in our fight for privacy. However, today governments around the world are again pushing for more surveillance. This must be stopped! 🔒