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
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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.
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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?
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People will still use their service, so…. This is entirely irrelevant.
