Meh. I’ve seen this guys channel. He got removed for a ban evasion on his second channel which was encouraging people to 3D print firearms. Second channel got banned for this, and so he started clearing out the first channel in an effort to keep the first channel from getting banned; he knew it was coming.
Now he’s posting on some YouTube clone that Newsmaxx is prominently featured on. Louis Rossmann wasn’t given the full story here, as I’m sure he would have a different tune if he knew all that was going on.
I wouldn’t be so sure Rossman would change his mind.
He tends to very publicly say all the “free speech absolutionist” talking points and came pretty close to outright saying it during stuff like the guy who said something that sounded like a slur into his doorbell.
This is exactly why we as a community need to work hard to build federated platforms, that are censorship resistant. YouTube as the public square is extremely censored, and arbitrary, today it’s not so bad, but tomorrow who knows
Mass video hosting is just so incredibly expensive, especially something in the scale of the types of CDNs services like YouTube use
I am working on a solution built off of Lemmy that I hope combats the primary issue of cost/delivery for server managers in a partially automated fashion.
There are already distributed video hosting solutions. They all the same three problems:
- CSAM. Lemmy admins are already having to deal with assholes who upload child porn and then the federated instances who are less vigilant
- Discoverability: If we start having curated lists of what content people are willing to host then you will never see any new creators who didn’t get big elsewhere
- Monetization: This goes without elaboration
So the end result is what we already see a lot of lemmy boards as. Just shamelessly copying anything popular off of reddit or hackernews.
That is the issue with video hosting. You basically need an entire cloud compute business to even attempt to justify the costs.
Yes - you cannot allow (a) free users (b) who can upload content randomly, lest you have the above problems.
You 100% cannot mimic YouTube outright in the fediverse. But you can definitely make federated video 100x better if this isn’t the objective.
you cannot allow (a) free users (b) who can upload content
Remind us again how you are building something like Lemmy, which allows free users to upload content?
built off of Lemmy
Not “like” Lemmy, FWIW. Lemmy already allows for permissioned users and those servers can still be federated with something like Lemmy World.
If you wanted to do it quick and dirty, you could have a permissioned Lemmy (like other closed Lemmy servers) whereby the permission was say, pay-as-you-go with a Stripe portal. I pay $50 for a year to be a user.
On the other side, this user does not have permission to post content/links (this is also a feature of Lemmy today, whereby a community owner can allow only mods to post content).
Creator-permissioned accounts (ones that can start communities and post) are white-listed effectively by the server operators.
It is with these users that the $50 is shared after server costs are considered.
These users can do the default which is content is posted and closed on the instance. But an “open” community could effectively be the place for free content, and those “freemium” links would be shareable with federated servers more easily.
The real trick is: can you implement it such that I could pay for this server as a user of Lemmy World and not have to create a new account. That’s the hardest part of federated, subscription Lemmy-as-YouTube.
People will still use their service, so…. This is entirely irrelevant.
