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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I'm hesitant about putting time into a (dying for our purposes) video platform. If SaidIt ends up allowing bots though someone could make some kind of YouTube notification bot.

PeerTube can import a whole playlist. I'll archive your playlist to there when I see it.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

That's a neat trick. Kinda like my recent discovery, YouTube-DLG : https://duckduckgo.com/?q=YouTube-DLG I used to rely on timesuck addons, one by one.

I'd not had any playlists for a decade. Then less than two years ago I started 4, only because it seemed like there was a void. I'm not saying all this stuff is even A+ much less A+++ but it's worth making a playlist for.

Sam Tripoli used to have more personal stuff but now seems primarily TFH and I think he's removed some with this show's success. At the time it seemed nice to sort through all that and present a clean list so I started the "Tin Foil Hat podcast playlist (with Sam Tripoli)" : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvg8eyC7StzS87ByPO1OOAOBtVC3u4siG

ALL of Tim Kelly's stuff is great. And Atwills scattered stuff too. For some reason I just thought collecting this stuff together seemed like a good idea. "Powers & Principalities Playlist (Tim Kelly & Joe Atwill)" : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvg8eyC7StzTDikjUhvccZJly9kCJ3u3B I like this show so much I started this article stub : https://infogalactic.com/info/Powers_&_Principalities I had started copy/pasting the mediocre YouTube auto-transcriptions, for the record and posterity's sake should they get censored and I was downloading it all. Back in April I actually spent a few days cleaning up one transcription ( https://infogalactic.com/info/Powers_&_Principalities,_Episode_047,_Proper_Transcription ) that you may wish to include for that show should you "back it up", adding hyperlinks and a couple factual corrections and/or skeptical notes. I wasn't going to half do it but I sure as hell won't do another. And then I fell behind and haven't copy/pasted the rest of the mediocre YouTube auto-transcriptions.

This list is almost pointless as it's essentially just his video list, but I feel this is prolly the most underrated show on YouTube, "The Shift Playlist (host Doug McKenty)" : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvg8eyC7StzRqOJAoc_WwQ8p-os1C4EcO Not only does he have A++ guests, the interviews are excellent as well. Sadly his output has slowed. I say my list is almost pointless, but I often "bundle" these four playlists when I promote them. Whether it's in the comments of TFH or P&P or wherever, I will often, when I think about it, say something like, "If you liked this episode of Tin Foil Hat, check out the playlist or these others..."

I'm not really into true crime stuff, but have had significant exposure to some cases via certain sources like Ed Opperman, who do many shows on OJ Simson's innocence or the Zodiac Killer myth or the Smiley Face Killer mystery. Professor Thomas Horan's "The Stones Unturned Playlist" : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvg8eyC7StzQ18hC-8ZVjX2ttirnoQOBv is also largely a copy of his video list, as it turns out. I thought it might be a little more. It's good but infrequent. Of note is how the media has played up the Serial Killer threat hysteria in news and pop culture of the late 20th century, yet they've all since vanished to be replaced with terrorists - cause they stopped? Or more propaganda?

I recently just started 3 other music playlists but they're awful and need more curating and selections. I want them but am not yet interested in dedicating efforts there just yet. Forget it - I just made them unlisted until they're something I can be proud of.

I'll keep you posted when I organize an "A+++" and maybe "A++" list. Prolly when I get another harddrive and have to swap one out. It will actually make me feel much better, that I haven't just been wasting my time all to myself, but actually getting it out there - in two ways.

I don't know if YouTube is really dying so much as an obstacle course of the establishment. This is a whole other conversation though. I also have a plan to "infiltrate" them. If my "Trutherism 101" project is half as good as I hope it will, if I can focus on making it, it may develop a following. I intend for it to parody everything under the sun without limit, included truthers themselves/ourselves. Further, I intend to start off strong but slow and build it to irrefutable hard hitting truths. By that time, I hope to have some supportive following and if/when they ultimately censor it, the martyrdom will not be for naught. Unless the global terror war is already too obvious and my efforts will come too late.

Anyway, thanks for your offer to import a playlist. I don't know if any of the above are of interest to you or worthy of your valuable hard drive space. I certainly won't feel rejected, in part because I've already seen them and in part because I haven't embraced PeerTube yet, and in part because it's your choice not mine. I'm just proposing candidates on hand. If the bandwidth isn't an expense, you may wish to download some to share, if you have some space free, until you have better content to replace it.

FYI, I just discovered this "circa now" channel ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwCFNn9grbEPqrFspV0IMGA ) and am downloading all their videos. I know some is good for sure, but I don't know if it's all aces. Also, I don't know how much is original and how much is "borrowed". Maybe you'll find goodies there.

Edit: Holly Seeliger of Zoon Politikon mentioned Kip Simpson (Chris Simpsons http://www.RealityReader.com ) during an interview. Another one new to me. If she recommends him I'm pretty sure he's good, even if small time. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9GexwSxlqjo9NhMMdcv6zg/ I'm downloading his archive next.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Oh, youtube-dlg looks cool, I've been using the GUI-less guts of the thing, youtube-dl. (Gui schmooey).

Thanks for the playlists, these are all new to me aside from Sam Tripoli. I'll check them out and archive the good stuff. Your A+++ list sounds very intriguing. I do have to be a bit choosey because of hard drive space but so far so good, 250gb for $5/month and I've only used 20gb or so.

Good point about YouTube, they are not dying but are more popular than ever, they are finally selling access to TV channels too.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

About the A+++ list... They may be A+++ to us or they may also be A+++ because they are concise and to the point and/or they maybe perfect to share to newbies and sheeple like my Mom, who's starting to wake up some (still a looooong way to go). Some of the older A+++ may also be something profound that was either new to me or new at the time. I'm not going to watch them all over again, but I suspect some may be just A++ now.

YouTube is where the sheeple flock is. Most folks on alt-tubes are preaching to the choir. Censorship is the battleground for hearts and minds and freedom and truth. I think that until the A.I. DemiGod Overlord shuts us down that's where the battle will remain unless we can really get this decentralized web thing working.

It's a chicken-egg thing. I am broke as fuck but in a stable situation. I'd LOOOOVE to buy a big server to co-host SaidIt (when they figure out their decent-web plan), and PeerTube, DTube, IPFS, Holochain, ZeroNet, etc, as well as renting out space. I might even be able to beg borrow steal seed funding for it. BUT, if there is no demand for the Decent-Web then there's little chance all the content I host will earn Filecoin, Steemit, Holo-coin, etc etc etc for the service that would be provided (for maintenance, connection, upgrades, expansion, sustainability), there's no way to compete with the established cloud-based corporate overlords.

As much as I'd love to buy a big server, I'd love EVEN MORE to have everyone (that can afford it) have a dishwasher or refrigerator sized server in their home, perhaps in the basement beside their similarly sized water heater, air conditioner, and/or home heating system - with everyone's system sustainably earning and growing, even if half of them were serviced by trusted local tech folks. THAT's how this COULD work, if people actually properly could invest in their future freedom.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

there's no way to compete with the established cloud-based corporate overlords.

true that. at least this whole operation and my peertube server are amazon and google free. I like the home server idea, but I think it means you have to buy an expensive ISP plan and be pinned down somewhat. If you go big though it makes sense.

if people actually properly could invest in their future freedom

Amen let's do the damn thing.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's my point.

The system is rigged in every way. The expensive ISP service is barely any different than regular service. That's intentional. They don't want good or competitive networks out there.

But if everyone had one and demanded a better price, maybe.

Or... We adapt and build our own in various ways. Let's for the moment pretend that everyone is adopting this new decentralized system and it all pays for itself as the market meets the demand. (Rather than supply side economics overproducing shit for landfills, demand side is superior and less wasteful.) But "they" are closing down the connections and services.

So we adapt. Rather than relying only on direct physical networks we can create wireless networks like the Better Approach To Mobile Adhoc Networking (B.A.T.M.A.N.) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.A.T.M.A.N.

But we don't want to burden wireless systems much less adopt 5G or worse to increase bandwidth. If every computer server system had something like FreeNAS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeNAS ) in it, you could be make lots of redundant drive, not only good for backup security but also for "trade". Let's say every week you shipped a couple 4tb drives to a network determined location somewhere else near or far to perpetuate and spread the information you had. Also, you'd be copying new redundant drives all week and every week you'd also receive a couple 4tb drives from some other seemingly random place. Random to people, but determined by the systems operated by folks. For example, all of this weeks updates on GitLab could be put on a drive and shipped to one town in Africa to be disperesed there. Not the best example.

So maybe they'd try to stop shipments. That doesn't stop people from inventing their own systems. You viisit your friends and neighbors and coworkers and swap drives with them. Some folks travel to other towns etc. etc. etc. It could be a way of life - only if 1) people rejected the authority systems and 2) the decent-web systems could be profitable and sustainable on some level small or large.

Anyway, they say most of the traffic on the interwebs is Netflix and porn. Even if you drop the porn, Netflix is serving content that could be compressed with x265. Also they shouldn't be serving everyone, so much as seeding to some who share with others, like webtorrent. In this way Bitchute, PeerTube, etc are a superior model to YouTube if they could expand and everyone be part of the participatory cloud rather rely on the authority cloud.