cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/22423685

EDIT: For those who are too lazy to click the link, this is what it says

Hello,

Sad news for everyone. YouTube/Google has patched the latest workaround that we had in order to restore the video playback functionality.

Right now we have no other solutions/fixes. You may be able to get Invidious working on residential IP addresses (like at home) but on datacenter IP addresses Invidious won’t work anymore.

If you are interested to install Invidious at home, we remind you that we have a guide for that here: https://docs.invidious.io/installation/..

This is not the death of this project. We will still try to find new solutions, but this might take time, months probably.

I have updated the public instance list in order to reflect on the working public instances: https://instances.invidious.io. Please don’t abuse them since the number is really low.

Feel free to discuss this politely on Matrix or IRC.

    • ElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1411·
      2 months ago

      To answer the “why”, it’s because the word “content” is kinda meaningless. Instead of making films, documentaries, talk shows, reference guides, cartoons… it’s all just this generic “content” slop that’s just there to feed the machine

        • Ilandar@aussie.zoneEnglish
          135·
          2 months ago

          It’s not that strange, I have a friend who literally said the same thing today in reference to one of his favourite channels shutting down. He preferred to call the stuff on this channel art, rather than content. I agree with the person above too, the term has always bugged me. It makes it sound so mass produced, like your job is to just produce meaningless “content” for people to mindlessly consume. And to be honest, that’s exactly what the mainstream YouTube culture is about.

          • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
            51·
            2 months ago

            I mean, you don’t call it whatever you like, but content is the technical definition of it.

          • arglebargle@lemm.eeEnglish
            41·
            2 months ago

            I agree with this a lot. I really do not like the term “content”. It is like going to a recipe for some “slop”, like using a term that is just a catch all for everything tossed on a plate.

            Art is great. Movies, music are also fine terms. And so is simply saying they made a video. Watering it all down to the term “content” is just so boring and mind numbing.

        • sailingbythelee@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          2 months ago

          Not really. The term “content creator” is corporate speak. Google’s ad-based business model has a binary classification: content and ads. It’s not an inaccurate term, but using it implicitly endorses the corporation’s binary world view.

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        Showman/woman refers to a pretty specific type of performer, I.E someone who is on stage typically.

        Entertainer isn’t a label I’d necessarily apply to educational content, for example.

          • Tja@programming.devEnglish
            161·
            2 months ago

            Yes it’s much better to use

            “comedians/teachers/musicians/educators/entertianers/phonereviewers/sportscommenters/singers/journalists/programmers/documenters/analysts/lawyers/lockpickers/politicians/presenters/trolls”

            … than…

            “content creators”.

          • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
            81·
            2 months ago

            What do you have against creators as a label? I don’t really see these difference myself.

          • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            47·
            2 months ago

            Or just call them Content creators, recognize they don’t really produce value for anyone but YT’s grab on the attention economy and start living in the real world.

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        9·
        2 months ago

        Not all content is entertaining. Someone who makes tutorials I wouldn’t call an entertainer. That’s why “content creator” is used as a catch all term to cover all of it.