Comment on A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet
squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 3 weeks ago
Original source with options for video and audio downloads, independent from YouTube.
Comment on A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet
squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 3 weeks ago
Original source with options for video and audio downloads, independent from YouTube.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah… the very fact this is posted as a youtube video reinforces the point of how far we are from this. The issue is, the enshitified internet is not a technology problem… it’s an education/people problem.
Auli@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Oh it definatly is a technology problem though. There well never be a federated Youtube for instance. Think about that the storage that Google uses since videos are not really deleted, and the bandwidth to server that much video. It doens’t really scale with federation.
squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 3 weeks ago
Until there is. Someday someone will create a PeerTube plugin or some other piece of software that will tackle this. I’m thinking distributed storage, automatic mirroring to other instances when more bandwidth is needed for a popular video, voluntary storage donation from clients (got 10GB of expendable storage on your device? Donate it to the network), or something I can’t even think of. There are so many possibilities in this space. I won’t accept that it’ll never be possible.
non_burglar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, the logistic problem Google “solved” in making YouTube functional and free was born from a time when dumptrucks of VC money made it viable. It will never happen again, regardless of innovation.
This is not a technical problem, and in the case of the YT monopoly, it’s beyond even a people problem. Google got the money, and google won.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
IPFS backend and some automated pinning system for Peertube would go a long way to me
tehmics@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Peer to peer could solve the hosting/bandwidth issue. Just federate the network/index/front end for torrent-based streaming. Impose some ratio requirements for access and it’s infinitely scalable
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The simple solution is to just… stop using video so much. Video is riddled with problems as a long term human record, doesn’t scale, increases perpetually in requirements without actually improving quality of CONTENT, isn’t indexable or searchable, isn’t easily translated into multiple languages, not as easily shared, not as easy to back up…
Again, it’s a human problem. If humans accepted text and images again for the majority of information transfer, the problem would go away.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I wish more people were like us on this matter, but they don’t appear to be. People are using video for everything, regardless of how bad it is. One of the most popular genre of short form video is some well manicured person pointing up at some text that appears in the top of a video, set to terrible music. 20-100 words at most.
Rooty@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve minimized my short form video consumption and reliance on Youtube for entertainment for this very reason. Podcasts are great to listen to when I’m doing chores
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
What about a system that works like torrents under the hood and every time you went to watch something you just download it with an expiry date?
You just need a metadata system like lemmy so people can find the videos, and once they decided to watch it, it downloads it for them via the torrent protocol.
The only disadvantage is that it won’t be streaming but let’s be honest, streaming isn’t a huge advantage for shorter clips + high bandwidth (which you need for streaming anyway).
You can also further optimize it by making each video cut into 5 min chunks so you can always download the first one and start watching sooner.
The only drawback, like others mentioned, is that it works best with a savvy user base instead of just spoon feeding you and giving you little control (which apparently people just love these days).
ThoGot@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
People per se are lazy (not derogatory) and will almost always use the path of least resistance, unless there’s something to gain. And most people don’t notice any negative influence on their lives from these data-grabbing platforms
Shameless@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’re so right! I use a VPN, Linux adblockers as much as possible and various other privacy focused technologies and my partner just thinks I’m paranoid.
They love that their instagram algorithm can serve them highly personalised clothing ads 😆
INeedMana@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Sometimes I wonder if I fail my spouse with not convincing her to privacy, or I let her make her own decisions
pemptago@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
This is me, too, and not bothered that their instagram algorithm can serve them highly personalized political propaganda just as easily. At least not enough to leave.
baconmonsta@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Way to blame the victim!
This is a result of anti-competitive business practices and legislative capture in the U.S. It’s not going to change until things change over there or until the rest of the world decouples from them somehow.
Auth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It should be viewed on youtube. The reasoning being: we are trying to get as many people to watch this as possible. Watching the video on youtube boosts it and shows it to more people at the moment its reached 75k people. Watching it on CCC.de is nothing but a few hundred nerds jerking themselves off about being decentralized.
Most content should be watched decentralized where possible but for “messaging” posts we need them on mainstream platforms boosted by engagement as much as possible.
freedom@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
So we can ensure the algorithm never shows it to anyone. Those platforms are censored black.
Auth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I saw it on youtube through the recommendation algo