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"content": "<p><span class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.online/@davidaugust\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>davidaugust</span></a></span> I have the heretical view that it's not only possible, but wise to just post one's own videos on one's own blog with <a href=\"https://autistics.life/tags/RSS\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>RSS</span></a>. As long as the videos are shot in a lower resolution, they are much smaller in size. Hundreds of such videos (say ~160MB each, for an hour's video in 360p) can be saved in the tens of GB that come with renting cheap VPS'. Then a javascript video player like clappr embeds the videos on one's personal web pages. A mountain of <a href=\"https://autistics.life/tags/enshittification\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>enshittification</span></a> is avoided in this way.</p><p>All the "broken glass" we're being dragged over - as is in the OP - results from unwisely trusting 3rd parties to host the videos. My unpopular opinion is: don't use those 3rd parties, period. Be the 1st party, even if your efforts are a little amateur-looking. The key is to quit being greedy with high resolution - which plays into the hands of <a href=\"https://autistics.life/tags/AI\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>AI</span></a>, btw. This is to make the file sizes more wieldly and self-manageable. No transcoding, etc. Every such simplification matters.</p><p>**You get to set your own license this way also**, such as:<br /><a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">creativecommons.org/licenses/b</span><span class=\"invisible\">y-nc-nd/4.0/</span></a></p>",
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"en": "<p><span class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.online/@davidaugust\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>davidaugust</span></a></span> I have the heretical view that it's not only possible, but wise to just post one's own videos on one's own blog with <a href=\"https://autistics.life/tags/RSS\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>RSS</span></a>. As long as the videos are shot in a lower resolution, they are much smaller in size. Hundreds of such videos (say ~160MB each, for an hour's video in 360p) can be saved in the tens of GB that come with renting cheap VPS'. Then a javascript video player like clappr embeds the videos on one's personal web pages. A mountain of <a href=\"https://autistics.life/tags/enshittification\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>enshittification</span></a> is avoided in this way.</p><p>All the "broken glass" we're being dragged over - as is in the OP - results from unwisely trusting 3rd parties to host the videos. My unpopular opinion is: don't use those 3rd parties, period. Be the 1st party, even if your efforts are a little amateur-looking. The key is to quit being greedy with high resolution - which plays into the hands of <a href=\"https://autistics.life/tags/AI\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>AI</span></a>, btw. This is to make the file sizes more wieldly and self-manageable. No transcoding, etc. Every such simplification matters.</p><p>**You get to set your own license this way also**, such as:<br /><a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">creativecommons.org/licenses/b</span><span class=\"invisible\">y-nc-nd/4.0/</span></a></p>"
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