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Watch "Let's de-Google-ify the Internet" on PeerTube

https://peer.mathdacloud.ovh/videos/watch/c193a2f6-8b24-48c3...

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube

https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances

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When YouTube comes back up again, I can recommend Tom Scott with "Single Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4GB_NDU43Q

It's back up.

it's black!

Yes! This video was what caused me to reconsider my use of Google services seriously.

I was wondering how to react if this happened to me while watching the video. If, like me, you use Google with your email on your own domain (eg. gsuite), you could, in an emergency, change your MX records to something non-google.

Worth noting that "In an emergency" also relies on your MX records' TTL being set to a low value

And the DNS not being managed by Google and the domain not being bought through Google.

Wow, thanks for the recommendation. Harrowing.

damn!!!

> Clicks on link.

> 0 peers.

> Refreshes YouTube.

> 500.

> Realize the internet is a distraction from what is really fulfilling and meaningful in life.

> YouTube's back up.

> Watch "Micheal Jackson's 'Bad' but Every Time he says 'bad' the Music Speeds Up".

Only getting like 1 peer per video and <150kb download.

That de-Google-ify video I linked has 26 peers currently.

I had the same problem, but it was because one of my privacy extensions had disabled WebRTC.

https://d.tube/

Opened it up, saw a foot fetish video on the front page.

It's like old Youtube then.

Or like random network shares on the University dorm network.

Not until it learns your specific for fetish them shows your kids on NewPipe.

Everything on there looks like a scam or those 5-minute lifehack compilations where you lose a finger if you tried them yourself.

4 peers with about 320KB download

Download finished, but I only uploaded 6MB total.

Too bad because I've got a symmetric up and down.

Oh wow-- just went to the "Trending" page and it's got a bunch of thumbnails of stuff like Stallman speech videos next to thumbnails of pornography. The Stallman/Porn ratio is about 2:9. (Well, to be fair there's also Peertube related videos.)

So in keeping with the history of the internet, porn seems to be the main driver here. But then their UI solution to keep newcomers from being offended is to blur out the porn thumbnails. So either:

a) the newcomer-- like me-- isn't after porn, and the majority of the screen real estate is wasted, or

b) the newcomer or return visitor is there for porn, the thumbnails they want to view are blurred out, and Stallman's face is eating up valuable porn thumbnail real estate.

Modest UX suggestion: follow the history of nearly the entire internet and separate out your porn from your everything else.

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