I got hit with the “sign in to confirm you’re not a bot today”. I thought I could get around it by firing up a vpn in a GDPR country, but I got the same notice there as well. YT-DLP gives me the same error, but curiously FreeTube, GrayJay, and NewPipe all seem to get around it. I don’t know for how long, but they seem to all be working for now.

I know the proper solution might just be to go touch grass, but I watch YouTube on a nearly daily basis and would like to get it working again in the browser without needing an account and on YT-DLP if anybody knows any solutions.

Also, I follow video/audio content through RSS and didn’t know if anybody had a good way to find out which creators post where. Whenever any creator mentioned they post elsewhere I always replaced the YouTube subscription with a subscription to them on anther platform. When I got the sign in error I went through my favorite creators and searched for them on Odysee and Rumble, finding a small but not insignificant amount of people I follow on Odysee.

Is there a good place to find out who posts where? Any sort of lists of which creators have their own PeerTube instances/channels, post audio content to substack/soundcloud, mirror to other video platforms like odysee/rumble, etc?

Thanks

  • @[email protected]
    9•1 month ago

    I think the only real path forward is for a developer to figure out a way to decentralize video hosting. The future of the free internet is decentralization. We’ve seen which way the wind blows when platforms are centralized.

    Consumer storage is abundant and cheap as hell. There will need to be incentives for: 1. Creators 2. Node hosters 3. Moderators. Potentially AI could do the heavy lifting on number 3. Figuring out a way to avoid ad based revenue would be another hurdle. In an ideal world, creators would accept that only 10% of their viewers would contribute to them monetarily (through patreon or donations) and use the platform for its freedom from corpo bullshit.

    But as much as the Foss and decentralized crowd has been growing, I think we’re still a long way out from average people becoming fed up enough to care. I still get eye rolls from everybody I know IRL when I try to get them to open an invidious link.

    • edric
      9•1 month ago

      cheap as hell

      Is it really? For hosting your content, sure. But once you stand up a public instance, I can imagine storage costs would climb pretty quickly.

    • @[email protected]
      4•1 month ago

      I think the only real path forward is for a developer to figure out a way to decentralize video hosting

      That’s what Peertube is all about. It’s like the Lemmy version of Youtube. And it seems to have real funding and development mojo.

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      3•1 month ago

      I wish Piped and Invidious were federated. It would make it so much harder to block.

      If one instance gets blocked it could just pull video from another instance. Combine this with some sort of caching system and you would be golden.

    • @JubilantJaguar
      2•1 month ago

      In an ideal world, creators would accept that only 10% of their viewers would contribute to them monetarily

      Agreed.

      (through patreon or donations)

      and then you lapse into using “patreon” as if it’s a generic noun!

      Not your intention I know, but this kind of corporate capture of minds has to end somehow.

    • @bamficEnglish
      1•1 month ago

      I think ipfs was supposed to be this but got bogged down in crypto shit. My memory is spotty on this tho