/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

It was really fucking stupid to rely on YouTube. It should be strictly used for marketing with a repository run and owned by you with the full videos elsewhere.
Too many leftists refuse to put in the work to self host then get caught with their pants downs by Big Tech.
Difficulty isn't even an excuse anymore, you can ask AI to walk you through it step by step.

Umm, who? Did this need its own thread?

>>498444
>self host
It's completely unreasonable to expect every individual to self host. What people (especially journalists and video analysts) should be doing is getting off their lazy asses and embracing federated solutions to video hosting already. Specifically, they need to arrange a consortium to host one or more PeerTube instances. The great competitive advantage of PeerTube is that its streaming protocol allows you to distribute the bandwidth load on viewers with WebTorrent when they're watching the same video at the same time. In addition, federation is strongly resistant to any one attack or censorship purge, and PeerTube allows you to effortlessly clone the content from one channel on an instance to another channel on a different instance.

>>498445
No it's really not, like I said AI can walk you through it. And peers on peer tube can be censored. And the average peer tube instance is fucking shit show.
For whatever reason, every open source solution seems to be completely enable to meet even basic UI standards.
There desperately needs to be a way that users can meaningfully drive the development of open source projects the same way developers can contribute code.
And self hosting and hosting on federations aren't mutually exclusive.
The major stumbling block of any federated solution I've ever used is search. You cannot practically find anything this isn't right on your own instance.

>>498445
You can go through the Palestine threads here (as well as, iirc, at least one of the Iran War threads) if you want to know more about his work. Podur is an extremely prolific analyst who has been documenting and discussing news about the resistance, war, and Palestine for years. He also writes articles about this stuff. He's extremely well known as far as independent media about this goes, and YouTube cracking down on him and stuff related to what he reports on so hard that he leaves the platform is its own phenomenon worthy of discussion. I think this might be the only time I've opened a thread about one of his videos, but tbh plenty of his past ones would be worthy of a thread.

>It's completely unreasonable to expect every individual to self host.
Hard disagree with this part of your reply to that anon.
Not even just on an individual basis - we have orgs, and the vast majority of those aren't offering this kind of services either. Whether or not it's apparently reasonable to expect, it's absolutely necessary, and both individuals and orgs have been fumbling the ball massively when it comes to offering alternative outlets to communicate information.

>>498446
>>498447
Evidently you don't understand the bandwidth problems with hosting videos that get a large number of regular viewers. It's not the same as a short video posted on an image board that a small number of people click on sporadically. Youtube has an enormous monopoly advantage against upstart competitors because Google has intentionally ate the bandwidth costs and operated it at a loss for a long time. The problem with self-hosting videos is not hardware. The barrier to entry is paying for an enterprise-level internet service. That's why WebTorrent is such an important innovation of PeerTube.