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YouTube Rolling Out AI Age Verification to New Batch of Users

YouTube expands age verification to more users. Several users are reporting on Reddit seeing new restrictions being applied to their accounts.

YouTube Rolling Out AI Age Verification to New Batch of Users

YouTube expands age verification to more users. Several users are reporting on Reddit seeing new restrictions being applied to their accounts.

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Show thread9tr6gyp3
I don’t understand why people are so afraid to ditch YouTube
Nov 7 at 6:55pmWeb
Show threadearthwormNov 7

A lot of creators I watch are YouTube exclusive with their content.

If they were on Peertube, I’d delete YouTube in a heartbeat.

But I also understand that a lot of them make their living off ad revenue, so I don’t blame them for staying.

Show thread9tr6gyp3Nov 7
Why commit to them instead of finding alternative creators on a different platform?
Show threadearthwormNov 7
There is no substitute for Hank Green.
Show threadthen_three_moreNov 7
Name one
Show thread9tr6gyp3Nov 7
What are you into?
Show thread🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Nov 7
Doesn’t matter. Name a single FREE alternative to YouTube with content worth watching.
Show thread9tr6gyp3Nov 7
Depends on the content you’re wanting to watch.
Show thread🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Nov 7
See, you can’t even just name something. Because it doesn’t exist.
Show thread9tr6gyp3Nov 7
So you’re looking for a service that spoon feeds you non-specific videos?
Show thread🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Nov 7
Do you have no opinions yourself? I don’t care what’s on it; what alternatives do you think exist?
Show thread9tr6gyp3Nov 7
I can give you the alternative if you tell me what you want to watch?
Show threadTachyonTeleNov 8
Videos.
Show thread9tr6gyp3Jan 20
Plenty of videos on loops, peertube, archive sites, libraries, and public domain sites
Show threadTachyonTeleJan 20
Why are you going all in on a thread from two months ago?
Show thread9tr6gyp3Jan 20
Just logged back in
Show threadathatetNov 8
12 hours later. Whatcha got?
Show thread9tr6gyp3Jan 20
2 months later, the alternative is anything else except YouTube. Maybe even nothing at all. Try doing 2 months without it and see if you can survive.
Show threadBetamacxJan 31
@Kolanaki @9tr6gyp3 Dailymotion?
Show threadtoomanypancakesNov 7
How about mtg gameplay, video game speedruns, beat battles, and vtubers? That's pretty much all I use YouTube for these days, but I'd love to drop it completely.
Show threadfaythofdragonsNov 8
I do cosplay, dollhouses, and dioramas, and peertube is pretty dead on that front.
Show thread9tr6gyp3Jan 20

Cosplay: www.therpf.com/forums/

Dollhouses: www.dollshousespastandpresent.co.uk/Forum

Dioramas : www.scalemodeladdict.com/…/dioramas-terrain.88/

RPF Costume and Prop Maker Community

RPF Costume and Prop Maker Community

RPF Costume and Prop Maker Community
Show threadthen_three_moreNov 8
Photography, Star trek, fountain pens
Show thread9tr6gyp3Jan 20

Photography, check out pixelfed

Star trek, check out www.trekbbs.com

Fountain pens, check out www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/

The Trek BBS

Star Trek forums for Star Trek fans - chat about the series and the movies here.

The Trek BBS
Show threadthen_three_moreJan 20

Forums like the fountain pen one and and the photography one you suggested are a Reddit replacement. However, sometimes you want to watch a video though. So they’re not good YouTube replacements in my opinion.

Pixelfed is great as an Instagram replacement, but again no videos.

Show thread9tr6gyp3Jan 20
I looked through them before posting and the users there were sharing their information through different mediums, including videos.
Show threadthen_three_moreJan 20

I’ve never once seen a video on pixelfed, it’s a photo platform.

The others I’ll take a look

Show threadEinarNov 7

Fine. Name alternatives for what YouTube is mostly used for.

We are talking vlogs on huge amounts of topics, product reviews and unboxings, reaction videos, how-to tutorials, gaming videos (walkthroughs, live streams, and etc.), ASMR and relaxation content, educational and explainer videos for science, history and finance… and so on.

There’s simply no true alternative.

Show thread9tr6gyp3Nov 7
What are you into?
Show threadEinarNov 7

The above.

My circle of family, friends and others will extend the list to music videos, health care (mental health and wellness, and for example), the shorts, movie trailers, even Hallmark movies.

There is no platform other than YouTube that combines all this crazy amount of content.

There’s PeerTube with notoriously difficult onboarding for the average user and limited content, there’s Loops with extremely limited content… I really wish it were different.

Maybe one day existing platforms will rise. Looking at you, VIMEO, Kick, DailyMotion, DTube…

Show thread9tr6gyp3Jan 20
In the meantime, lets utilize other sources of videos like those at our local libraries, public domain hosts, archive websites, and open source federated video sharing platforms
Show threadcriss_crossNov 7
You can also check out nebula. A good chunk of them are there.
Show threadOptionalNov 7
Not “afraid” to “ditch” a monopoly. It’s a monopoly.
Show threadTachyonTeleNov 7
If you want to transfer every video to a different service, be my guest.
Show thread9tr6gyp3Nov 7
I mean, it gives you tools to export your videos out.
Show threadTachyonTeleNov 7
Cool. You should probably get started. There’s a lot of videos.
Show thread9tr6gyp3Nov 7
I don’t have any youtube videos to export. Do you want me to export yours?
Show threadatrielienzNov 7
And everyone else’s. People don’t go elsewhere because the creators they like are on YouTube. Speaking as someone with and Nebula.
Show thread9tr6gyp3Jan 20
Well we can start looking for creators that respect privacy and freedom of their viewers, ig
Show threadatrielienzJan 21
You’re asking them to put their livelihood on the line for your privacy. They’re gonna choose the thing that pays their bills every time.
Show thread9tr6gyp3Jan 21

No, what Im saying is a service that is as centralized and pervasive as youtube should not be the ones who determine if you should be allowed to watch a video or not. They are inserting themselves between you and your content creator and assessing your entire identity. They, a for-profit, data-hoarding, facist financier, corporate advertising conglomerate will have collected the very personal details of your entire individual life, and will amass everything they have on you to declare if you are able to watch a 10 minute video.

THAT is what we should not have. But maybe thats just me.

Show threadSkaveRatNov 8
no. just start at the frontpage and continue from there. let me know when you’re done, I got some videos on my todo list
Show thread9tr6gyp3Jan 20

Nothing on the front page though

Show threadTachyonTeleNov 8
If you would, thank you. Here’s the list:
www.youtube.com
Show thread9tr6gyp3Jan 20

Not seeing any videos there.

Show threadTachyonTeleJan 20
This is two months old, bud. Try newer threads.