Dendrobatus Azureus @Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe
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Jeff Geerling got the brunt of YouTube wrath when he showed people how to host their own media {media that they legally own, which means that they either have the originals, or have paid for whatever digital version they have} with the power of Open Source tools
Jeff explicitly made sure that he never ever told people how to circumvent subscriptions or worse. Nothing that could harm YouTube bottomline was ever discussed in this video.

Yet for reasons obvious to Open Source people like me YouTube gave him his second strike.

3rd Strike and you're gone. This is how Google / this is how Alphabet is treating their Golden Geeze.

Creators like Jeff are very valuable both to the people who follow them and to YouTube. However Google seems to be at Super odds with Open Source, needing it to run their data centers but hating it because they have to share the code again that they've worked upon.

Google is a paradoxical Company which is being controlled by Alphabet, a schizophrenic Entity drunk on power Ads and control

To me you're a star @geerlingguyJeff Geerling keep Shining

jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/sel

The image shows a screenshot of a webpage with a black background and white text. The title reads "Self-hosting your own media considered harmful" and is dated June 5, 2025. Below the title, there is a paragraph explaining that the author received a second community guidelines violation for a video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5 for 4K video playback. The screenshot includes a warning message from YouTube's Studio interface, indicating a violation of community guidelines for "Harmful or dangerous content." The warning message is dated June 5, 2025, and includes a link to the video in question. The author mentions avoiding demonstrations of tools that circumvent purchasing media content or automatically slurp up YouTube content. The webpage's URL is "jeffgeerling.com/bl," and the browser's address bar shows the URL "studio.youtube.com/channel/UCR-DXtvoobSnhAcvRz2hg." The screenshot also shows the time as 02:22, with a battery level of 86% and 4G connectivity. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.268 Wh
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