so, the reddit API protest has taken a different direction, now people are uploading gigabtyes of videos to reddit which are just noise. i cannot stress this enough, do NOT run the command ffmpeg -filter_complex "nullsrc=s=1920x1080,geq=random(1)*255:128:128[vout]" -map "[vout]" -t 46 -c:v libx264 out.mp4 in order to generate one of these large video files then upload them en masse in order to slow down their servers, that totally will not help with the protest

again, the command is:

ffmpeg -filter_complex "nullsrc=s=1920x1080,geq=random(1)*255:128:128[vout]" -map "[vout]" -t 46 -c:v libx264 out.mp4

this generates a nearly 1GB large video file, if enough people make them, it will clog up reddit’s servers, so be very careful not to run this command and upload the resulting file to reddit, especially not to communities such as r/noise

@mjdxp I understand that you don't want us to post such videos, but maybe some communities that accept videos would be interested in noise? (other than r/noise)
Suggestions?

I heard that /iOS accept anything that we think it related to iOS (which is a device that can produce noise) but unfortunately they don't accept videos.

@narF @mjdxp Also, do not happen to embed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereogram noise files with embedded messages and pictures even in such communities?
Autostereogram - Wikipedia