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YouTube is severely rate limiting Invidious instances (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by anticurrent@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Today most Invidious instances are experiencing very harsh ip address rate limiting, it is becoming very very hard to watch yt videos through

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[–] abbenm@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Exactly. For any proposed change, it's going to run up against what I like to call Status Quo Extremism, which is a mindset that suggests that "But that would be different from the status quo" counts as a defeater argument against proposed changes.

The combination of incentives would, as you note, need to be driven by niche interests rather than attempting to reproduce the incentives of the top 0.01% of YouTube creators.