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YouTube Videos Over Gemini

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Summary: People who wish to watch (and find) YouTube videos can do so from their Gemini client; it gets rid of "social control media" aspects of YouTube (e.g. infinite scroll optimised for "addiction" and clickbait for "engagement"); the videos can be watched directly as files and changes were announced earlier today

As the image below shows, Gemini continues its steady growth and owing to this morning's update I've found out that there's now a YouTube video proxy in Geminispace. Its usage is demonstrated in the video above. A fairly large file is downloaded*. Some Gemini clients can be configured to send it directly to a media player of choice.



Aside from that, we've been super-busy the past 3 days due to a database incident (we have backups, so it's OK) and we're accelerating our move to another CMS, maybe we'll write our own (details in IRC). Gemini is about keeping things simple while the Web becomes increasingly bloated, which leads to a multitude of databases (Techrights has 3) and potential, occasional breakage. "Web rot" will happen faster because "frameworks" are short-lived and unreliable. The death of Adobe Trash (Flash) was dress rehearsal; now a lot of the Web is one giant 'Flash' (mostly JavaScript and massive libraries, even proprietary fonts and DRM). More and more people realise this and say this out loud, so there's reason for hope; people are encouraged to do something about it...

The Internet is mostly OK, the Web can be made leaner, but one cannot shield oneself from sites that do not follow such principles (they even intentionally obstruct users whose browser isn't some Chromium derivative).

Lupa 2600 _____________ * There is a caveat though. Our associate notes: "The Gemini protocol still (AFAIK) has a bug which prevents handling of very large files and therefore Video over Gemini is not feasible. The protocol cannot handle large files, it might work sometimes, but is neither reliable nor accurate in that regard; anything other than small files is very strongly inadvisable. Something will download but it will not necessarily be either complete or accurate."

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