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We are getting reports of YouTube rolling out an experiment to some accounts where normal videos only have DRM formats available on the tv (TVHTML5) Innertube client.

This is not limited to yt-dlp. Tests have been run with the same account on various official YouTube TV clients (PS3, web browser, apple tv) and they are also only getting DRM formats for videos.

We live in hell-world.

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[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 42 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Screw them! We'll build our own peertube, with blackjack, and hookers

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Peertube is f****** amazing, But your average windows user isn't going to be able to manage the hosting. And your average ISP blocks standard hosting ports. Then it also requires the users to manage their own monetization.

It's not undoable but it is kind of a steep slope.

[–] RiQuY@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

You can use an already hosted instance, there is no need to selfhost every service.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I think they were maybe speaking to the peer-to-peer "hosting" part of peertube. If not enough people are contributing to bandwidth, then more falls back to the server, increasing the cost to run it.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

Mainly storage. The only reason these free hosted sites can stand up is because they have low traffic. If 0.01% of YouTubers started dumping all their video over there, they'd quickly run the free services out of town.

Realistically, If it were easy enough for everyone to host locally (torrent style) and people paired up with hosting partners for backups, peertube could be an amazing Youtube alternative.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

Paying for bandwidth and cloud storage rates for video hosting is pretty much worst case. I'd argue that if you were going to self host anything video would be the most important

[–] kat@orbi.camp 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I joined it but the main feed was just a lot of NSFW content.... So made it kind of awkward for discovery.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Discovery is a major hurdle. There are plenty of instances that don't have NSFW you should poke around to find something suitable.

[–] kat@orbi.camp 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 33 minutes ago

With good content? That's a hard find :)

Plenty without NSFW though

I frequent https://v.basspistol.org/ but they're mostly music

do keep in mind you can also use their filters

like these on https://vid.freedif.org/

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