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.
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Yes, exactly. The server I run jellyfin on kept promising me cake, though I am fairly certain the cake is a lie.
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.
Saw the video… It mentions ”ripping” and even shows clips of some blockbuster movies. No wonder any copyright-sensitive automation gets triggered pretty fast. This will only get worse.
None of that is illegal. He states he purchased the media. And it's certainly not harmful content.
You recon the copyright mafia cares much about what’s illegal or not? Google has played ball with them for years and slowly sided with them more and more. It’s all about the ad money and google wanting to keep the big players happy. All things related to ”owning content” in this era of just renting is going to get flagged. Ripping, selfhosting, torrenting, data hoarding…whatever undermines the content monopoly.
I think if the ripping includes de-DRM-ing it's is illegal in a lot of countries. I am not saying it's right, we should own our own content, I am just saying it as a fact.
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Pretty fast? The video was uploaded in 2024.
”Pretty fast” after they tuned those automations to the current setting. And they will keep turning it that way unfortunately.
What if I decide to digitize my entire movie catalog? I would have to rip those DVDs and blurays...
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It's pretty harmful to Googles cloud business.
Who would win:
- A 2 trillion dollar multinational technology company
- Some guy's hobby project
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.
He's on float plane. I think he's trying to make a living, so I'd assume YouTube ad revenue is a factor
He's on float plane
I'll never support anyone on that platform. I'll never do anything to give LTT a cent.
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.
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.
I admit I don't watch every video, I'm subscribed but I just kind of let videos come to my home feed and watch that way. I mainly use YT as background noise while doing something else.
His reasoning makes sense, so I guess I'll just continue to watch on YT since I have no desire to join FP. Thanks for the info!
What they did to you?
Lied
Can you tell me more please? Or send a link please? I would like to know what happened, thanks.
It's been talked about to death. It's been analysed to death.
But here's a very detailed and thorough breakdown:
I see, you mean this, I thought there is something new. Thank you for sharing. What I didn't like about Luise's contribution to this drama is that he focused solely on LTT's side and didn't mention the other side. Because I think both sides made some mistakes.
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Another reason to self host: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/google-cloud-outage-brings-down-a-lot-of-the-internet/
It says (updated) but what is the update?
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.
Go forth, and self-host all the things!
He means self-hosting as in hosting his own PeerTube instance? Right??? 🙏
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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).
I hate youtube so much. When are they moving all to ~~freetube~~ peertube or something? How long do we all accept Google youtube?
They're the 800lb gorilla, and no other platform can create "youtuber" income, so it's a real problem for people like Jeff Geerling to move from yt, even if they know it's bad, because it's a major part or all of their income.
When are they moving all to freetube or something?
Unless I'm missing something Freetube is a client. So it wouldn't be Jeff moving to freetube it would be you using freetube to watch his content on YT.
I'm guessing you meant peertube instead of freetube and your answer there is "When they can get paid." Making content takes time and costs money and YT pays creators like Jeff for doing it.
I dislike YT alot but there's financial decisions at play here that can't really be argued with.
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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 :(
Isn't that what an mp3 players main purpose is? Are mp3 players bad now?
Yes cause they can’t sell you a subscription for your mp3 player.
Fucking rent seeking behaviour from corporate parasites.
That's the one thing idiocracy got wrong it wouldn't be Costco it would be Rent-A-Center
Costco bought RAC in a stunning buyout in 2437 after Costco's CEO Harambe Memelord Disney Jr. offered RAC's CEO Squiggy John John John John Johnson a 2-for 1 deluxe latte coupon and an extra big-ass fry.
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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Hey kid.... You wanna self host an api call? 😈
it would be amazing if geerlingguy was the one to make youtube go mask off
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!
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