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Youtube bans 3D print channel after manually reviewing its videos as suitable for monetization [Louis Rossmann explains the censorship] (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/videos

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[–] thantik 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Meh. I've seen this guys channel. He got removed for a ban evasion on his second channel which was encouraging people to 3D print firearms. Second channel got banned for this, and so he started clearing out the first channel in an effort to keep the first channel from getting banned; he knew it was coming.

Now he's posting on some YouTube clone that Newsmaxx is prominently featured on. Louis Rossmann wasn't given the full story here, as I'm sure he would have a different tune if he knew all that was going on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is exactly why we as a community need to work hard to build federated platforms, that are censorship resistant. YouTube as the public square is extremely censored, and arbitrary, today it's not so bad, but tomorrow who knows

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

Mass video hosting is just so incredibly expensive, especially something in the scale of the types of CDNs services like YouTube use

[–] rezz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I am working on a solution built off of Lemmy that I hope combats the primary issue of cost/delivery for server managers in a partially automated fashion.

[+] Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] rezz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yes - you cannot allow (a) free users (b) who can upload content randomly, lest you have the above problems.

You 100% cannot mimic YouTube outright in the fediverse. But you can definitely make federated video 100x better if this isn’t the objective.

[–] overzeetop 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you cannot allow (a) free users (b) who can upload content

Remind us again how you are building something like Lemmy, which allows free users to upload content?

[–] rezz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

built off of Lemmy

Not "like" Lemmy, FWIW. Lemmy already allows for permissioned users and those servers can still be federated with something like Lemmy World.

If you wanted to do it quick and dirty, you could have a permissioned Lemmy (like other closed Lemmy servers) whereby the permission was say, pay-as-you-go with a Stripe portal. I pay $50 for a year to be a user.

On the other side, this user does not have permission to post content/links (this is also a feature of Lemmy today, whereby a community owner can allow only mods to post content).

Creator-permissioned accounts (ones that can start communities and post) are white-listed effectively by the server operators.

It is with these users that the $50 is shared after server costs are considered.

These users can do the default which is content is posted and closed on the instance. But an "open" community could effectively be the place for free content, and those "freemium" links would be shareable with federated servers more easily.

The real trick is: can you implement it such that I could pay for this server as a user of Lemmy World and not have to create a new account. That's the hardest part of federated, subscription Lemmy-as-YouTube.