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First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

They were going to ban multi-streaming. Basically most streamers stream to YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and I forgot the last site but Twitch was going to ban this so they could only stream to Twitch no matter if they were official twitch partners or not.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ultimately all these big platforms are gonna cannibalize their userbase at some point. That's the reason I started since 2 years archiving all the YouTube channels/playlists I care about. I already have many videos that were taken down by YT afterwards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I finally made an odysee account today, I was surprised how many channels I watch already have channels there.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is the first time I heard of odysee, so I just went and looked, and oh my god who picked the "lady fungus" monstrosity as a help avatar. 0.o They could've at least made her a cute mushroom or something instead of fleshy finger-thing, what the hell.

I have no real opinion of it yet otherwise, except that I'm automatically wary of anything touting blockchain at this point.

Youtube does need a viable competitor or three so badly, regardless.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm looking at it more and it's uh, well I guess I'll see how it goes. I clicked to skip the Blockchain thing and it still did it so that's weird, and I'm seeing a couple possible red flags in regard to management and the community in general that I need to look into further. I'll keep an eye on it I guess.

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

It's an alt-right cesspool, even worse than youtube.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Don't be too much critical of it, it's also decentralized in the same vein as Lemmy. There are a lot of dissident voices who have been chased out of YT who can now only talk on Odyssey.

Technically Odyssey is just a front interface to LBRY which the decentralized video streaming platform behind it. I run LBRY directly on my phone. It's a bit clunky but essential for finding non censored information. Just ignore the alt-right channels.

I came to the conclusion long time ago that any healthy community should not suppress speech no matter its political orientation. In a decentralized system it should be natural to find people from all political spectrums those at the extreme opposite of ours. Reddit became an outright racist and bigoted platform. The few anti capitalist communities left are kept there to keep some semblance of neutrality so the people who support the status-quo keep believing in this fake reality. And as history shows, bigotry and racial hatred is the escape trap of the capitalists when the reality of their exploitation starts to be apparent in society.

That being said, I understand that some instances on Lemmy for example would be more picky on what kind of speech is allowed, since anyone can create his own instance. The ecosystem as a whole allows all voices to exist.

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

I assume you're using some form of youtube-dl.

Do you have a quick script for downloading the video and scraping the data like the uploader, date, and title of the video?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Right now I use https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist

It requires a bit of technical skills to setup the instance but offers an easy UI to quickly add channels/playlist and automatically archives new videos.

If you want an easier script checkout https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection/

You can put in a file the list of channels/playlists it videos to save and run the script, it downloads everything organized in folders including subtitles and video descriptions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

they were also going to ban sponsorship overlays, but backpedaled on it the next day.

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

I thought this was already forbidden if you're an affiliate / partner (i.e. have a subscribe button)?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

iirc it's only partners that have exclusivity deals. affiliate lets people subscribe to your channel, while partner contracts are mostly standard across the board, aside from the obvious exceptions (significantly large channel streamers).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That could be the case; the only folks I've heard mentioning it are partners.