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"this morning, as I was finishing up work on a video about a new mini Pi cluster, I got a cheerful email from YouTube saying my video on LibreELEC on the Pi 5 was removed because it promoted:

Dangerous or Harmful Content Content that describes how to get unauthorized or free access to audio or audiovisual content, software, subscription services, or games that usually require payment isn’t allowed on YouTube.

I never described any of that stuff, only how to self-host your own media library.

This wasn’t my first rodeo—in October last year, I got a strike for showing people how to install Jellyfin!

In that case, I was happy to see my appeal granted within an hour of the strike being placed on the channel. (Nevermind the fact the video had been live for over two years at that point, with nary a problem!)

So I thought, this case will be similar:

  • The video’s been up for over a year, without issue
  • The video’s had over half a million views
  • The video doesn’t promote or highlight any tools used to circumvent copyright, get around paid subscriptions, or reproduce any content illegally

Slam-dunk, right? Well, not according to whomever reviewed my appeal. Apparently self-hosted open source media library management is harmful.

Who knew open source software could be so subversive?"

  • deafboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    3 days ago

    Peertube has a major disadvantage, though. It does not come with prebuilt revenue stream to cover your hosting costs.

    In other words, he would become the customer, not the product, which comes with the certain set of advantages and disadvantages.

    edit: or he could spin up his own instance, which would result in him having one more fulltime job :)

    • Meldrik@lemmy.wtf
      10·
      3 days ago

      If he had hosting costs, that would mean he’s hosting his own PeerTube instance, which is definitely something big content creators should be doing. But he could start out with using Tilvids.com (like The Linux Experiment) or another PeerTube instance.

      How does he backup his videos today? Wouldn’t it make sense if you used your backup solution with your own PeerTube instance?

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      Sponsorships seem to be getting increasingly common and IIRC are way more profitable than youtube ads. Also typically less annoying to the end user? Not sure, I sponsorblock them. At the very least you can choose where they go.

        • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          6·
          3 days ago

          View numbers. They don’t care where people are viewing it. Which is why you can then distribute it to as many platforms as you like.

          • krolden@lemmy.ml
            21·
            3 days ago

            They will pull something like “we cannot verify the viewer numbers on your content cannot be verified as the platform you published to has not made a deal with us behind the scenes”

            • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              7·
              3 days ago

              Podcasts have managed on platforms that don’t even report viewer counts. Apparently they didn’t like it when it was updated so that they did.

              An obvious option though is discount codes or affiliate links.