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HeadSet says

richwicks says

Sure, companies will keep getting bought off, but it gets easier and easier and easier to make a search engine, and a display platform. What a few engineers can do today, took hundreds, if not thousands of engineers to do 20 years ago.

Would the new search engine require building and manning a server farm? You would need something to handle thousands of requests and quickly process results.

I can't stress enough how much power you have in your pocket today. 1000's of search requests? No problem. You don't want to build a server farm, what you want is a distributed network.

The weakpoint we have right now is that there's a single source. Having a corporation promise not to censor, that's fine, but it's just a promise. What has to be built a system that the creators of the system can't censor. There's some real moral questions with doing this, but perhaps we can mitigate it by identifying who connects to whom, meta data.

There's a balance between authority and freedom.



Government keeps betraying us though. There's terrible horrible downsides on complete freedom of speech, but there's also the same with a totalitarian corrupt government.

That horrific incident happened because of a private network. They can be infiltrated, and I'm certain they weren't using novel tools, just a web page to log in with a credit card or something.

Are people basically good or evil? The world seems basically evil, but I think it's because of dominance. There may be a very positive effect by making communication strictly adhere to the 1st amendment. Maybe the reason the world sucks so bad, is that communication is limited. Maybe censorship is the worse evil. We'll find out though. I hope it's for the best. The last thing the nerds of 90's will do is make entirely uncensorable communication. Seems we have to.

https://reclaimthenet.org/rand-paul-youtube-rumble/?source=patrick.net

Senator Rand Paul ditches “worst censors” YouTube, goes all-in on Rumble
Paul vowed to no longer post videos on YouTube unless it is to criticize them or promote content on Rumble.

https://reclaimthenet.org/dan-bongino-racks-up-over-2m-rumble-subscribers/?source=patrick.net

Rumble lacks music compared to boobtube.

I really really REALLY want to love Rumble, but the only thing it has going for it. Is they don't censor content.
The bad part is, there isn't any fucking content, they suck balls!
Every fucking time I see a Rumble video in a Conservative news story, the fucking view window is locked to a tiny video I can't fucking see. The useless sorry stupid fucks, lock the full screen, and will NOT allow you to view it on Rumble. I'm so disgusted by the sight of Rumble I don't even bother looking at the video anymore. What's the fucking use, I use a desktop not my phone, and that 3 inch by 4 inch viewing screen, just pisses me off. I go look at YouRube every time, if I'm still interested.
Then when I go to Rumble, and do manage to catch one decent video. The 5 or 6 suggest videos on the side, are cute cat videos. You go to the home page, and there's nothing. The navigation the search everything about it sucks. My Daughter second year in college working on her Computer Science degree made a better interface for her midterm a couple months back.

I like LiveLeak, and BitChute, has some decent content. And most always when I'm sent to those other services, there's enough related content to keep me there for a couple hours or until I get bored.

I've never caught a second video on Rumble EVER! Not just ONCE!

Tenpoundbass says

And seriously what's up with no Live content?

Speaking of live content, I watched the Ron Johnson live second opinion. It was long, so I would pause it as I would go in and out doing other things around the house.
But at some point, the stream ended, and unlike YouTube, it didn't just convert into a 3 or 4 hour video. It was gone. After the conference was over, Rumble said video did not exist when I tried to resume.

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

Rumble lacks music compared to boobtube.

Yeah, if Trump is somehow involved, I'm beginning to think the deal merger was about Rumble upgrading it's image by using Trump's name. And it wasn't a financial arrangement where Trump gave them money to upgrade, and get up to speed It was most likely Rumble giving Trump money to say they are best buds now.
Because I'm not seeing anything on Rumble that says they have a billionaire backer.

https://reclaimthenet.org/youtube-bans-dan-bongino/?source=patrick.net

YouTube permanently bans Dan Bongino as he breaks Rumble traffic records
YouTubs says any channels "associated with his name" will also be banned.

OK, lol.

Styx was just banned for a week from Youtube. Boningo was permabanned not long ago.

Tenpoundbass says

It was gone

I started watching via a Zerohedge link to Rumble but direct to Rumble still works: https://rumble.com/vt62y6-covid-19-a-second-opinion.html?source=patrick.net

Tenpoundbass says

Every fucking time I see a Rumble video in a Conservative news story, the fucking view window is locked to a tiny video I can't fucking see.

@Tenpoundbass - you're just missing something here:



Click play first by clicking the center of the window. At the bottom of the window, on the lower right, you will see a little window and "Rumble" appear. If you click the window, it goes full screen, if you click "Rumble" it takes you to the original site where it was posted.

Youtube is a dead man walking. I'm telling you - within 5 years, it will be about as popular as MySpace. Remember that?

richwicks says

Click play first by clicking the center of the window. At the bottom of the window, on the lower right, you will see a little window and "Rumble" appear. If you click the window, it goes full screen, if you click "Rumble" it takes you to the original site where it was posted.

Well try that at The Gateway Pundit, or Bretibart those options are disabled.

richwicks says

Youtube is a dead man walking. I'm telling you - within 5 years, it will be about as popular as MySpace. Remember that?

I'm not a fan of YouTube, but if you're going to make a Youtube replacement, at least make desired content easy to find.

Youtube was the master of knowing what you want to see, based on what you are watching. They were until the last 4 years or so, then they destroyed that algorithm, and replaced it with a Propaganda injection algorithm.

Tenpoundbass says

I'm not a fan of YouTube, but if you're going to make a Youtube replacement, at least make desired content easy to find.

It is easy to find.

Stop using Google. I don't. Google is 5 miles from my place.

Tenpoundbass says

Youtube was the master of knowing what you want to see, based on what you are watching. They were until the last 4 years or so, then they destroyed that algorithm, and replaced it with a Propaganda injection algorithm.

It's not hard to duplicate that. Netflix does this. In fact, I'd say IMDB did this first. It matched what you gave positive reviews for with other people who had similar points of view on something they also saw. It was just doing correlation. If person A like a,b,c,d,e,f and g and person B liked a,b,d,f,h,j,m and n - both were given suggestions for what didn't overlap.

It's not hard to do.

BUT you need to log in for it work. Have you noticed cookies now ask for permission (constantly) - that's to limit competition. Before it was under the hood and using cookies to track your viewing habits. Can do that anymore.. That's regulation for ya!

https://reclaimthenet.org/youtube-removes-ukraine-on-fire-documentary-rumble/?source=patrick.net

“Ukraine on Fire,” a 2016 documentary that details historical conflicts in the country, such as the 2004 Orange Revolution and the 2014 overthrow of the Ukrainian government, has been banned by YouTube for violating the tech giant’s “violent or graphic content policy.” ...

Lopatonok added that he plans to open the rights to another of his documentaries, “Revealing Ukraine,” and make it available as a direct download on Vimeo.

Additionally, Lopatonok created a Rumble account and uploaded a copy of Ukraine on Fire.

“We are fighting back against #YouTube #censorship,” Lopatonok tweeted. “Just uploaded our with @TheOliverStone
documentary @UkraineOnFire on #rumble…Please share it!”

Numerous YouTube and Rumble users have posted copies of Ukraine on Fire to YouTube and Rumble since Lopatonok opened the rights to the public. Copies of the documentary have also been uploaded to the free speech video sharing platforms Odysee and BitChute.

https://rumble.com/vwxxi8-ukraine-on-fire.html


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richwicks says

It's not hard to duplicate that. Netflix does this. In fact, I'd say IMDB did this first. It matched what you gave positive reviews for with other people who had similar points of view on something they also saw. It was just doing correlation. If person A like a,b,c,d,e,f and g and person B liked a,b,d,f,h,j,m and n - both were given suggestions for what didn't overlap.

It's not hard to do.

Netflix is not as effective as Youtube's video algorithms were.
Netflix really doesn't have lot of content to begin with, nowhere near the amount that youtube had.

I say past tense, as they suck balls now, but at least they have more content creators.

I'm watching it now, and it's pretty good. Learning lots of bits I didn't know.

The Ukraine definitely has a Nazi past and present. This is probably why YouTube censored the movie.

Haven't watched yet but here's the link:


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You tube is now banning Oliver Stone, the guy who worked on everything from Conan (the Original) and Platoon to JFK.

Screenshot from Stone's movie, showing movements funded by Soros, compared with BLM logo.