Ah damn, so that’s why a bunch of channels disappeared from my IPTV list. My fault for not diversifying I suppose.

Anyone got any suggestions for sites of a similar vein? Sites, not telegram/discord groups.

Seems like if they didn’t want content being viewed by anyone who can connect to a stream they might wanna put some authentication on the connection or something. Crazy idea, right?

EDIT: Yes, I know some of these streams are pirate streams being hosted elsewhere, but a bunch of them are straight from the companies themselves, available in the clear without any authorization checks.

I like to watch TV shows in the background where I’m not going to be watching the screen obsessively, so I have several shows in 480P or sub-480P. There are also some shows where the “official” HD versions are just awful (most 90s sitcoms) or the show was made for 4:3 and has a different feel converted to 16:9 (MASH, The Wire).

Going beyond that though, I spent years on a really limited connection (2.6m down/400k up) and my instinct for saving bandwidth and storage space is still there, along with my need to pay it forward since I ain’t no leech. I’ve become fond of making what I call “Bonsai Encodes”, where the files are small enough to be sent over damn near anything. With mono Opus and VP9 video you can cram 45 minutes of perfectly watchable content into a sub-25mb file that’ll play in Discord, with VTT subtitles even (though those won’t play in Discord itself). Looks a bit like watching it on an old tube TV, but it’s watchable.

90% of the time it’s bigots who are upset that they’re getting deplatformed. The other 10% of the time it’s the incredibly idealistic or naive. Either way it’s a crap argument. You are under no obligation to endure verbal diarrhea, nor is it your responsibility to change the minds of the people spewing it. They shit the bed, they can lie in it.

Lemmy.ml has several solid communities, including the largest AskLemmy community. Their top 20 largest communities are all pretty mainstream and don’t really see the kind of posts/comments that make people wary of Lemmygrad or Hexbear.

The original DVD release of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 riff of Godzilla vs Megalon. MST3K licensed the film from a company that did not actually own the rights to it, and only discovered when Toho sent out a cease and desist following the release of MST3K volume 10. Production was stopped, but a few hundred copies were still sold.

Funnily enough some of those copies were actually sold to Blockbuster, who somehow were allowed to keep renting them out even after the C&D went into effect. I made sure to rent a copy ASAP once I found out.

Having bittorrent traffic set to low priority while being online and doing other things can lead to that, especially someone seeding multiple things at once.

Also depending on where they are or how they’re connecting their ISP could be throttling them.

Kbin is a combined implementation of Lemmy and Mastodon that works with both. You can view and post to Lemmy instances via Kbin and vice versa. That said, much like Lemmy it’s still being developed, so there are still bugs and inconsistencies that sometimes cause Kbin and Lemmy/Mastodon to not quite communicate with each other properly.

The one thing I’ve noticed is that Kbin’s federation with blahaj specifically is a bit lagged. Posts only show up after a pretty significant delay, usually about an hour. Also I’ve yet to be able to successfully make a top-level image post from Kbin to any other instance, so that’s annoying.

it’s definitely possible to be unprofessional/toxic while still doing something that you’re legally allowed to do (under that license)

That was my take on it. Nothing I read indicated that the Pushpull devs had done anything wrong per se, other than being bad at PR and the selection of someone to do said PR.

On the other hand, the sentiment coming from the Pushshift side was staggering to me. I mean the licensing wasn’t even ambiguous, and who makes their source code publicly available and then complains about someone using it?

Ah yeah I remember this. I also remember a few of the pushshift devs getting butthurt that pullpush forked their source code and “stole” it, despite the license they use explicitly allowing that. Look, if you don’t want people reusing your code then don’t publish it somewhere publicly accessible under a license that allows reuse.

This SubredditDrama thread touches on it, just so no one thinks I’m talking out my ass.