Apparently my Fedi promo video is giving error messages on YouTube (shocker).
So I just logged on YouTube Studio for the first time in months to see what's going on... and found some interesting comments.
I'm not caffeinated enough to deliver zingers but I hope my response was adequate.
On the upside, I also saw a few comments of people who set up new accounts here, so yay.
As for the unplayable problem: no clue. But this is why I LOVE #PeerTube and on my website I'm using the PeerTube embed
@_elena C'est là une réponse succulente !
It is a fabulous video!
Works fine on an olde iPhone and an outdated MacBook Pro (32bit, Mojave).
Both w Firefox, the MacBook Firefox with Adblockers.
I am in Ireland.
@_elena
I mean, sure someone could offer $44B, but who are they gonna offer it to? Just to be safe, maybe each Fedi user... the users are the closest we get to having owners.
@_elena Haters gonna hate.
@_elena Haters gonna hate.
@_elena @benroyce
That's what qe thought about email, too. Then Googleand MS started offering free email with added other freebies and now 80% of email goes through their servers. Running your own is a very difficult task these days as most peopletou want to mail to are on one ofthose services and they jave lots of additional hoops to jump through before they deign to accept
No error messages for me on mobile, just one more view and like. 😁🤷
@knapjack ❤️❤️❤️ thank you!
@_elena
Mansplaining or jealously of just plane stupid? 🤔
It's hard tot choose.
@_elena I'll never understand people rooting _for_ the billionaire class.
@_elena are there Fedi Awards? you would get my vote. thanks for your relentless dedication. inspiring
@pookiesorcery awww thank you! ❤️ doing all this for my child and her peers, wishing for a better internet when they're older
@_elena #YouTube has become more and more problematic throwing error messages for all sorts of reasons. Most things i watch are there given the sheer amount and variety of content vs. Peertube.
I use #FreeTube and at times have to change #VPN connections in order to watch videos, at times some will only open in a browser.
It's definitely a hot mess. I wish #Peertube were a viable alternative for more than just #foss stuff but alas, it's not even close for most of what people watch/want.
@_elena What did the even mean by you being the "villain (cause) of all this"? Given that, I seriously doubt they're going to be able to comprehend your reply
@_elena Works fine for me, chrome, with ublock, privacy badger, ghostery and goodtube running!
@_elena can anyone explain what his second sentence means?
@_elena
Apart from it being an utterly idiotic and ill-informed comment, what exactly was this person's problem?
Excellent response from you!
@aerion I think I set quite a few people off with the section in the film about Big Tech oligarchs. They sadly have a lot of fans, le sigh
That's something that eludes me too, this utter blindness, this inability to think for oneself…
Sometimes it feels like The Matrix is real, and I took the red pill…
And what's with the worshipping of billionaire assholes?? 🤯
@_elena@mastodon.social the video did work for me with Pipepipe android client and Firefox with unlock origin. So this should not be a adblocking issues.
@_elena i don’t even properly understand what hes trying to say, especially the last sentence?
@lazyb0y 🤷♀️ same here. I suppose he wanted to say that I and the Fediverse will be losers "if Big Tech buys us", with only Big Tech winning but he ended up writing the opposite. It's really hard to decipher
@_elena I love your video! Just have to say it again.
It works for me and I am behind a strict pi-hole and two active ad-blockers on Vivaldi.
But I got an overlay-message that roughly said "If you are having trouble watching the video report it <here>".
I could imagine that this is some kind of youtube filter to push down content they don't like to get more reach. Or an anti-ad-blocker strategy.
@themipper ah fascinating!!! Thank you for letting me know! 🙏
I'm also on Vivaldi (with strict "no ads, no trackers" settings) and I use NextDNS.
With NextDNS turned off I still I couldn't play the video, so I thought it might have been something to do with my Vivaldi settings...
@_elena this person's comment feels like actual fascists calling other people nazis because they have the option to choose.
What a time to be alive.
@jsalvador indeed.
and please stop tempting me to make a new video about FEDERATED social media and what it means... 😅🤣
@_elena don't do it xD
@_elena “Elena, congratulations… [stupid rant]…”
“No! Congratulations to you, for making it a whole day without shitting your pants… Oh, no! Don’t worry babe, you’ll make it one day… 😘”
I mean, how seriously should one take a moron? 🤪
@_elena The video works for me: https://youtu.be/YRJHIJy5Nno?si=NCBfVpolwh6DKFso
I generally avoid yt if I can use an alternative like peertube, and I almost never interact with yt videos, but your videos are definitely worth boosting 😀
@dermoth thank you! good to know it's playing for you: out of curiosity, which browser do you use and do you have adblock on?
@_elena It was the yt app on Android. Usually I open videos in incognito on Chrome (Android usually, or on my computer), except from select accounts I'm familiar with. I just tested and it worked from Chrome too (incognito).
@dermoth wonderful, thanks for letting me know 😊
@_elena actually one thing you should look for is the origin country, region locks are quite common on yt. It's Canada for me, but you may have checked my profile for it... I can try from the US when I connect to work (all traffic goes out a US proxy).
@_elena ergh, I hope you're okay regardless. It's 100% not fun to receive these things.
@anarodrigues thank you Ana. Actually I promise you this comment genuinely made me laugh out loud and increased my love and gratitude for the Fediverse even more. So all good ❤️
@_elena @anarodrigues
Your reply is great!
@brunogirin thank you Bruno! I wish I had had a real zinger but alas, it's not my forte 😅
@_elena the amount of "actually" reply guys is insane.
"aCtUalLy ThErE iS aN aLoGrItHm" 🙄
@sturmsucht I would have expected nothing less 😂
@_elena you should have complicated the video more so that its message is hidden behind being technically correct!
@_elena its now playing on YouTube.
@donamasta some people reported it may be a problem with ad blockers. Even I cannot play it in my browser Vivaldi 🤷♀️ now, it would have never been my choice to run ads on it... and I'm so curious what they may be. Of course I'm not touching a penny
@_elena it worked on hardened brave browser mobile app.
@_elena it's fun that he didn't even see the video and still had to make this comment 🤦🏻♂️ Good reply, Elena! 👹👾
@_elena still, we've to keep communicating what "federation" means for digital platforms. Users are so used to silos/big tech, that it's hard for many of them to imagine such thing as interoperability.
@davidlohner
The one thing that I just fail to get, is that federation needs to be explained to people, when it's a concept that pretty much everyone is familiar with.
Have a (mobile) phone? You're federating. Have an email address? You're federating. Have an internet connection? That's federated.
People understand that you don't have to be on the same (mobile) phone network, with the same email provider, the same ISP, in order to communicate with others. Many daily services work, regardless of the provider you're with, where you can pick and choose and leave, without anything changing.
So why is it so insanely difficult to apply this concept to #XMPP messaging or anything on the #Fediverse?
It drives me crazy sometimes.
@aerion thank you for the SUPERB analogies 🙌 @davidlohner
@davidlohner absolutely!
I wish there was a great video explainer out there about this very issue. (Feeling a familiar temptation to go down another rabbit hole) 😅🤣
@_elena i don't know that that is an organic comment though
@_elena what a douchebag. 🙄
@sturmsucht it honestly made me laugh... all good and tame compared to some other stuff I read on there
@_elena You… you villain. 😆😂
@d1re_w0lf The good villain against the bad villains! Go @_elena
@dermoth haha thanks!
I'm too much of a softie to be a villain, but I'd happily be THIS KIND of villain
