Apparently my Fedi promo video is giving error messages on YouTube (shocker).
So I just logged on YouTube Studio for the first time in months to see what's going on... and found some interesting comments.
I'm not caffeinated enough to deliver zingers but I hope my response was adequate.
On the upside, I also saw a few comments of people who set up new accounts here, so yay.
As for the unplayable problem: no clue. But this is why I LOVE #PeerTube and on my website I'm using the PeerTube embed

D1re_W0lf ⁂ 🇵🇹 🇪🇺
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to D1re_W0lf ⁂ 🇵🇹 🇪🇺 • • •Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
in reply to D1re_W0lf ⁂ 🇵🇹 🇪🇺 • • •Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Thomas Guyot-Sionnest • • •@dermoth haha thanks!
I'm too much of a softie to be a villain, but I'd happily be THIS KIND of villain
@d1re_w0lf
Chris 🦑
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Chris 🦑 • • •cuan_knaggs
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •David Lohner
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •lolz at the comment.
I just installed my own #PeerTube for a side project.
David Lohner
in reply to David Lohner • • •Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to David Lohner • • •@davidlohner absolutely!
I wish there was a great video explainer out there about this very issue. (Feeling a familiar temptation to go down another rabbit hole) 😅🤣
Ærion
in reply to David Lohner • • •@davidlohner
The one thing that I just fail to get, is that federation needs to be explained to people, when it's a concept that pretty much everyone is familiar with.
Have a (mobile) phone? You're federating. Have an email address? You're federating. Have an internet connection? That's federated.
People understand that you don't have to be on the same (mobile) phone network, with the same email provider, the same ISP, in order to communicate with others. Many daily services work, regardless of the provider you're with, where you can pick and choose and leave, without anything changing.
So why is it so insanely difficult to apply this concept to #XMPP messaging or anything on the #Fediverse?
It drives me crazy sometimes.
@_elena
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Ærion • • •Ærion
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •@davidlohner
Jan Dytrych🇨🇿🇺🇦
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •donamasta
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to donamasta • • •donamasta
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Chris 🦑
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •the amount of "actually" reply guys is insane.
"aCtUalLy ThErE iS aN aLoGrItHm" 🙄
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Chris 🦑 • • •Chris 🦑
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Chris 🦑 • • •Ana Rodrigues
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Ana Rodrigues • • •Bruno Girin
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Your reply is great!
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Bruno Girin • • •Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •The video works for me: youtu.be/YRJHIJy5Nno?si=NCBfVp…
I generally avoid yt if I can use an alternative like peertube, and I almost never interact with yt videos, but your videos are definitely worth boosting 😀
- YouTube
youtu.beElena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Thomas Guyot-Sionnest • • •Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Thomas Guyot-Sionnest • • •Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •actually one thing you should look for is the origin country, region locks are quite common on yt. It's Canada for me, but you may have checked my profile for it... I can try from the US when I connect to work (all traffic goes out a US proxy).
Edit: nope, I forgot to say where I'm from in my profile (I'll update it)
Haughtgard
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •It also works for me. I'm using Firefox with ublock origin, privacy badger, Sponsorblock. No clue why you have error messages.
Dmian 🇪🇺
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •“Elena, congratulations… [stupid rant]…”
“No! Congratulations to you, for making it a whole day without shitting your pants… Oh, no! Don’t worry babe, you’ll make it one day… 😘”
I mean, how seriously should one take a moron? 🤪
Juanjo Salvador
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •this person's comment feels like actual fascists calling other people nazis because they have the option to choose.
What a time to be alive.
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Juanjo Salvador • • •@jsalvador indeed.
and please stop tempting me to make a new video about FEDERATED social media and what it means... 😅🤣
Juanjo Salvador
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Talya (she/her) 🏳️⚧️✡️
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •maybe YouTube infrastructure is just crumbling.
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Talya (she/her) 🏳️⚧️✡️ • • •Whatisgoingon
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •I love your video! Just have to say it again.
It works for me and I am behind a strict pi-hole and two active ad-blockers on Vivaldi.
But I got an overlay-message that roughly said "If you are having trouble watching the video report it <here>".
I could imagine that this is some kind of youtube filter to push down content they don't like to get more reach. Or an anti-ad-blocker strategy.
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Whatisgoingon • • •@themipper ah fascinating!!! Thank you for letting me know! 🙏
I'm also on Vivaldi (with strict "no ads, no trackers" settings) and I use NextDNS.
With NextDNS turned off I still I couldn't play the video, so I thought it might have been something to do with my Vivaldi settings...
Lazy B0y
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Lazy B0y • • •Ærion
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Apart from it being an utterly idiotic and ill-informed comment, what exactly was this person's problem?
Excellent response from you!
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Ærion • • •Ærion
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •🫨
That's something that eludes me too, this utter blindness, this inability to think for oneself…
Sometimes it feels like The Matrix is real, and I took the red pill…
And what's with the worshipping of billionaire assholes?? 🤯
Stomata 🥼
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Stomata 🥼 • • •Till Kleisli
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Till Kleisli • • •Graeme 🏴
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •\u1f0a1
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •🦄 🅃🅁🄰🄽🅂🄸🄲🄾🅁🄽 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •#YouTube has become more and more problematic throwing error messages for all sorts of reasons. Most things i watch are there given the sheer amount and variety of content vs. Peertube.
I use #FreeTube and at times have to change #VPN connections in order to watch videos, at times some will only open in a browser.
It's definitely a hot mess. I wish #Peertube were a viable alternative for more than just #foss stuff but alas, it's not even close for most of what people watch/want.
pookiesorcery
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to pookiesorcery • • •The Psychotic Network Ferret
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Sensitive content
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to The Psychotic Network Ferret • • •🌱💜 Ellen 🇺🇦
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Mansplaining or jealously of just plane stupid? 🤔
It's hard tot choose.
Jack
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Jack • • •Dr Andrew A. Adams #FBPE 🔶
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •That's what qe thought about email, too. Then Googleand MS started offering free email with added other freebies and now 80% of email goes through their servers. Running your own is a very difficult task these days as most peopletou want to mail to are on one ofthose services and they jave lots of additional hoops to jump through before they deign to accept
Black Aziz Anansi
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •🇺🇦 Johnydon he/him
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Vanessa Greene
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Vanessa Greene • • •Vanessa Greene
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Vanessa Greene • • •mags amond
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •jfor
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •It is a fabulous video!
Works fine on an olde iPhone and an outdated MacBook Pro (32bit, Mojave).
Both w Firefox, the MacBook Firefox with Adblockers.
I am in Ireland.
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to jfor • • •GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Stefan Haslinger
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Ati
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Johns
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •I wonder why!
Dimitar Stoev
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •