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YouTube has just changed its rules to allow hate speech against gender minorities 😞

usermag.co/p/youtube-removes-g…

If you currently publish on YouTube, please consider putting your videos on PeerTube instead or as well:

fedi.tips/how-to-publish-video…

Your audience doesn't have to be on PeerTube themselves. They can follow and interact with PeerTube from within Mastodon etc, and they can even follow PeerTube from podcasting apps such as Apple Podcasts.

(via @taylorlorenz on mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/…)

YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy

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Fedi.Video 🎁

p.s. Let me know if you're on PeerTube, I give shoutouts to PeerTubers via @FediFollows and @FediVideo to help get them noticed.

PeerTube is not just about Linux and FOSS any more, you can have a look at fedi.video to see all sorts of accounts that have uploaded.

If you're not a video creator but you follow someone on YouTube, you might want to politely suggest to them that they mirror their channel on PeerTube so that people can watch without having to use YouTube.

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Fedi.Video 🎁

p.p.s. It's not as difficult or expensive as you might think to start your own PeerTube server. There are managed hosting services which do all the techy stuff for you (installation, upgrades, maintenance, fixing any problems etc), and these start from US$6.99 per month inclusive of everything (fedihost.co/pricing).

You can ask @fedihost about entry level PeerTube hosting, and @Cloud68 is also a good one.

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Tato položka byla upravena (8 months ago)
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Fedi.Video 🎁

@GroupNebula563 @BoydStephenSmithJr

A lot of YouTube channels no longer make much in direct monetisation, they often make more from Patreon and sponsorships.

Patreon and sponsorships are platform-neutral, so they can be done on any video platform including PeerTube (for example @thelinuxexperiment mentions sponsors at the start, @michellemay mentions Patreons at the end).

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Blahmage

@GroupNebula563 @BoydStephenSmithJr directly yes, indirectly no though. A sponsor wants to see numbers, and i bet you Squarespace is not happy with the numbers peertube makes for 90% of the people they currently have under contract (Squarespace seems to sponsor every video i watch haha, lots of art stuff)
Don't get me wrong, I've been looking into peertube recently because I want to get rid of yt. But the monetisation via sponsors is nowhere near what you can make on yt.
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Fedi.Video 🎁

Oh yeah of course, I just mean there is not a technical barrier 🙂

If someone's PeerTube started getting large numbers of views, they would be able to get a sponsor the same way they do on YouTube or any other video platform. And you can have sponsors on multiple platforms, in fact it's probably easier so you can upload the same file everywhere.

Also, patrons are available at any scale, I have patrons for my Fediverse accounts.

Tato položka byla upravena (8 months ago)
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Fedi.Video 🎁

There are PeerTube instances for gamers:

video.gamerstavern.online
video.hardlimit.com
video-cave-v2.de (in German)

...but bear in mind these are being paid for by the instance owners. Usually they only cover costs for videos that other people might want to watch.

If you upload only for your own viewing, it seems reasonable to ask for payment? YouTube is only "free" is because it is spying on people and filling videos with advertising (and now it's allowing hate speech).

Tato položka byla upravena (8 months ago)
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@cardboard
No law AFAIK, it's just them being greedy and thinking they can make more money by pleasing Trump.

They want government contracts, they want favourable laws in other areas etc, and they see that Trump responds to people who suck up to him, so this is what they do.

I hope the staff at YouTube/Google walk out over things like this, sounds like a horrible company to work for.

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Schmaker

Feel free to use #VHSky for #Czech and #Slovak content.

We are looking forward to pretty much any kind of content - no matter if it's geek stuff, cooking or knitting 😀

And don't worry about the instance limits - these are actively watched by mods and raised if necessary.

VHSky

#czech #slovak #vhsky

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@GroupNebula563 @the5thColumnist

Yeah, it will vary a LOT depending on how long the videos are, how large the files are, how high quality they are.

Best way to find out is to ask the admin of the server you want to go to, or the hosting company if you want to set up your own.

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Fedi.Video 🎁

Indeed! The real world effects are potentially the worst part of all this: social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/…

FediThing 🏳️‍🌈 (@FediThing@chinwag.org)

Imagine a stranger spreads lies about you. They tell everyone you're doing horrible stuff, the worst crimes imaginable. They make videos, articles, livestreams, all pushing the same lies designed to make everyone hate and fear you.
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Tato položka byla upravena (8 months ago)
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Fedi.Video 🎁

Don't worry, totally understand the "one thing a time" thing! 🙂

App situation slightly complicated 😅

-There is no Apple TV app, but you may be able to follow PeerTube channels through its Podcasts app (at least you can on the iPhone), more info at fedi.tips/how-to-subscribe-to-…

-There is an iPhone app, but it is severely restricted by bizarre app store rules which don't really suit federated networks. I'd recommend using the website or podcast options as they're not restricted.

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Tato položka byla upravena (8 months ago)
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Kevin Russell

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Remove google entirely from our lives. And apple. And Microsoft. I am done. Not another dime, remove, re arrange, uninstall, delete, download, stop.

They arranged it, they paid for it, they slopped cash him, they surveil, they lie, they destroyed search. Among and together they arranged Americas fall, a democracy's fall.

Remove them all. Google microsoft apple

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@Toastface

Here's what GLAAD (who specialise in protecting LGBTQIA+ rights) says in the linked article:

“YouTube quietly removing ‘gender identity and expression’ from its list of protected groups is a major radical shift away from best practices in the field of trust and safety and content moderation,”

"“If YouTube’s hate speech policy really does still protect people from being targeted with hate on the basis of ‘gender identity,’ the public-facing policy should continue to say that."

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Fedi.Video 🎁

Not only this, YouTube also removed this from an example of rule-breaking:

“[Protected group status] is just a form of mental illness that needs to be cured,”

...so they seem to be now allowing people to be accused of mental illness if they are LGBTQIA+ etc.

Accusations of mental illness is how LGBTQIA+ groups have been persecuted, it's why it was illegal in so many countries for so long. Allowing this kind of language is opening the doors for awful and dangerous bigotry.

Tato položka byla upravena (8 months ago)
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Chris

I totally understand why one would react to this change in a negative way. However, myself being a minority and subject to more hate speech than the people that see themselves as the superior race, have never seen the group of people I belong to mentioned specifically in hate speech policies. That doesn't mean I never felt less protected by them. It's not like YouTube now supports hate speech towards certain groups just because they don't mention them anymore.
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Fedi.Video 🎁

Yeah, to confirm:

PeerTube is NOT blockchain, nothing on the Fediverse is blockchain!

PeerTube and the rest of the Fediverse are just ordinary traditional files on ordinary traditional servers. It is totally possible to delete them if you want to, just like any other file.

It is also possible to ask other servers to carry spare copies of your videos in case your server breaks down, but this is optional and up to the video creator.

Tato položka byla upravena (8 months ago)
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Fedi.Video 🎁

@GroupNebula563 @davethepitt

On PeerTube videos, they are streamed from the original server even if they have federated elsewhere. The file sizes are so huge, it isn't practical to automatically copy entire videos to other servers the way that text posts are copied.

The only exception to this is if you've asked other servers to make backups of your video so that it can still be played if your server goes down. But this is up to you and totally optional.

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Fedi.Video 🎁

It's a long story but basically don't use the app. The rules on app stores aren't suitable for federated networks and have made it very difficult for PeerTube to make an app store app that gets approved.

I'd highly recommend using a server's website and then installing it as a web app, this will give you full access to all the features and bypass the app store restrictions completely. Here's how to install web apps: fedi.tips/how-to-install-web-a…

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Tato položka byla upravena (8 months ago)
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