It’s a lot of maintenance. I’m not knocking it, I’m just pointing out how difficult it is.
I hosted a pixelfed server for my city and it cost a few hundred bucks out of my own pocket. It was a test run so I can push my city to move their social media to open-source.
But the constant need to apply spam protection and abuse from visitors, not to mention abuse from users like copyright shit and even CSAM. My expensive side project became a full time job.
I’m hosting it in my own network. I access it. no one else!!
And I’m doing it, so I can tell you: It’s almost no effort hosting Invidious locally for yourself. It just works. And if YouTube breaks something every 2 months, you can usually “docker compose pull; docker compose down; docker compose up” and it works again.
Just in case it is not clear: Invidious is an alternative YouTube frontend. In the backend, it uses YouTube. It’s not some kind of Fediverse thing. You cannot upload videos with it / on it and you can be the only user ever using it.
I imagine some of them are also just trolls trying to get people in trouble. (Pedophillic trolls, to be clear.) The same way folks just wanna break stuff just to break it. But who fucking knows. Some people are just disgusting and ruin good things.
It’s a lot of maintenance. I’m not knocking it, I’m just pointing out how difficult it is.
I hosted a pixelfed server for my city and it cost a few hundred bucks out of my own pocket. It was a test run so I can push my city to move their social media to open-source.
But the constant need to apply spam protection and abuse from visitors, not to mention abuse from users like copyright shit and even CSAM. My expensive side project became a full time job.
Locally!!!
I’m hosting it in my own network. I access it. no one else!!
And I’m doing it, so I can tell you: It’s almost no effort hosting Invidious locally for yourself. It just works. And if YouTube breaks something every 2 months, you can usually “docker compose pull; docker compose down; docker compose up” and it works again.
Just in case it is not clear: Invidious is an alternative YouTube frontend. In the backend, it uses YouTube. It’s not some kind of Fediverse thing. You cannot upload videos with it / on it and you can be the only user ever using it.
https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
Conclusion: low effort to host locally.
It amazes me how certain people just can’t help themselves with CSAM. Disgusting.
My theory is that it’s just a handful of people who are using anything free to mirror that content, out of fear of losing it.
I imagine some of them are also just trolls trying to get people in trouble. (Pedophillic trolls, to be clear.) The same way folks just wanna break stuff just to break it. But who fucking knows. Some people are just disgusting and ruin good things.
Emule flashbacks 🤮