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  • AFAIK if you open an instance videos are hosted in your instance, and may be replicated in other instances via Federation.

    Also it supposedly can work p2p if mutiple users are watching the same video it distributed the download. In my experience nowadays it always end using http download.

    Moderation an everything about ita users fall into the instance host and moderators. I don’t know if you can do an approval system, I would suppose so, but I’m not certain.


  • Everyone say to use an AdBlock. And while for now they work it’s a lose battle.

    Youtube ads vs adblockers does not have the happy ending of adblockers just always prevailing.

    As now embedded serverside ads are a pain to deal with. I don’t know if any adblock currently can surpass those.

    But next step will be youtube just putting a fence up and not letting you watch content unless you are registered, and thus banning any suspicious activity, or even just becoming a paid service.

    The only win here is moving to a open platform like Peertube. That’s the only future we can ensure. Adblocks won’t be able to always win.






  • That’s not entirely true.

    Not an US citizen. And in my country tax returns are certainly easier than the US. And our country also have a system in which people below certain money can just go to the tax agency and a government employee will do your tax return for you. But it cannot be fully automated, as the government doesn’t actually know 100% what do you own.

    When they send you letters after asking for things is for you to give them paper documentation on why you deducted some things, or because they are inspecting some things a your deduction raised a flag. But it’s not like they just know precisely how much everyone should pay. If it were that easy tax returns would not be a thing as it is in most of the world.