bimbimboy@lemm.ee to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoJeff Geerling: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated). Youtube removed his content, saying that self hosting content is "dangerous or harmful content"www.jeffgeerling.comexternal-linkmessage-square85fedilinkarrow-up1686arrow-down15
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minus-squareMeldrik@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down2·4 days ago Go forth, and self-host all the things! He means self-hosting as in hosting his own PeerTube instance? Right??? 🙏
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·4 days agoif you read further, he writes about peertube too
minus-squareMeldrik@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·4 days agoYes, he says he’s dependent on the ad revenue. However, no one is asking for him to drop YouTube. Also posting on PeerTube will simply have him reach more viewers. It won’t move viewers away from YouTube.
He means self-hosting as in hosting his own PeerTube instance? Right??? 🙏
if you read further, he writes about peertube too
Yes, he says he’s dependent on the ad revenue. However, no one is asking for him to drop YouTube. Also posting on PeerTube will simply have him reach more viewers. It won’t move viewers away from YouTube.
And it doesn’t scale.