It’s good to know that those are being acted on, but hell. AI should be a tool, not a replacement. Maybe companies will figure that out someday

I wouldn’t have thought so, as none of these creators in my first test have used these methods for editing - their content is all vlog style, with the only edits involving audio effects and cuts between footage. I’m ruling nothing out until it’s proven irrelevant, however.

True. I appreciate the call for free speech, but ever since the hateful have upped their public image significantly I learned that minimal tolerance moderation of said hateful folk would make for a much healthier society. I’ve also heard Odysee has been filling up with AI slop. Maybe there should be a dedicated switch for the user to decide if they want to see AI gen content. If we can’t stop them, we can ignore them and close the door

Precisely. I know some creators (Sam Time, Legal Eagle) that dual upload to Odysee as a failsafe for YouTube’s inevitable censorship, and Odysee being a decentralised space that prioritises freedom of speech means I see it as a good alternative, or stepping stone to Peertube.

Back in the day creators had their own blog websites for folk to access and subscribe. I believe this fragmentation is the best solution when aggregating sites like YouTube and Dailymotion become hostile.

I am not an established researcher, so I believe I have no legacy to justify a response from busy folk. I was referring less to myself not reaching out, and more to the unlikelihood of any responses. I am absolutely messaging creators who I see have a significant disparity between published and indexed videos.

I agree with local search, but I prefer more of a traditional algorithm-based search to generative AI. A solution I’ve seen (that is far more attainable than building your own search engine) is hosting a metasearch engine, which collates results from search engines, based on your own preferences of results. Or perhaps using someone else’s established server if their preferences align with yours. Localised (on-device) search will be a gamechanger in many ways, but I believe a meaningful version of that is far off and potentially impractical to implement.

I’m not, but the sheer amount (nearly 50% in some cases) is suspicious. Save getting answers from the creators themselves, best I can do is keep collating data. Some of the affected channels’ videos have no harmful content and millions of views per… But I don’t fully know yet.

I too see issues, but my clients are all some form of alternate app so I don’t have a true baseline. On Grayjay some videos just stop loading halfway through, and I can’t view it unless I switch to one of the other clients, and SmartTubeNext and YouTube with Sponsorblock both give me about a minute of black screen. NGL I prefer the black to unnecessarily invasive advertising

You shouldn’t really have to pay, not when advertising is the way Google funds everything. Iirc advertising is 90% of their substantial income.

I am seeing more rules and system changes hurt creators, and more creators quit, complain about it, and/or actively recommend adblockers and Patreon donations.

I second this, particularly slskd, Navidrome and Beets for the server, Symfonium for the client. Lidarr and Tubifarry would be nice to grab new releases but it’s not functioning very well.

Industry-wise, seriously just use Tidal, it’s cheaper by way of better value. Tidal has had CD quality (24bit 44.1kHz, 1411kbps) as a base and 320kbps mp3 minimum since before Spotify started promising they’ll add HiRes soon while offering 320kbps as a maximum.

The only reason someone would prefer Spotify is its partnership with three mainstream smart speaker brands, whereas Tidal is partnered with just one, Sonos. Bluesound too, but that’s more niche

yt-dlp crew explicitly state they won’t touch DRM for good reasons, and that’s fair. Companies using it for malicious reasons like paywalling/gatekeeping education are assholes.

I found two places with guides on how to use yt-dlp or ffmpeg:
Stack Overflow
Reddit

Failing that, OBS (you might be able to stream the file through VLC first, idk) is your friend

I find this interesting also. Enabling fingerprinting resistance a) makes every site light mode by default and b) when ssh-ing into my VMs on Proxmox (LXCs not affected), stops me from sending underscores and other symbols.

And I raise you Pokémon. Holy mother of fuck that’s messed up. Some episodes switched around for foreign distribution, some removed, and two seasons put into one, making the entire ordering one season and three episodes off. Had to manually edit nearly everything after Sonarr tagged them because Sonarr used the UK tvdb ordering iirc (the UK removed a couple episodes) but my source used Japan (scene) and Emby used US tvdb. Something like that

Feast your eyes on this shitshow (use desktop mode if on mobile)