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I remember the internet before google - when you would search for anything there would be like a 25% chance that a given search result would be a porn site targ

I remember the internet before google - when you would search for anything there would be like a 25% chance that a given search result would be a porn site targeted for random keywords. Google has done a great job figuring out content curation at scale. A competitor for any of their services would need a suite of hard-to-implement features to be viable, including discoverability and content filtration. Are there any good open source solutions to solve these problems? Bonus points if they’ve been proven at scale

arp242 6y ago
Years ago (and I think this was actually Google Video, and not YouTube) I was helping a customer who had trouble playing videos on the internet. I think it was one of those "it sometimes stops after a minute or so" problems. I fixed the problem with flash player and to test it I went video.google.com and clicked on a random video on the frontpage without paying much attention to what it was, and continued working on the next laptop while keeping half an eye on the video. This is how I learned about R. Budd Dwyer killing himself on live TV in 1987, as the video was the recording of him shooting himself in the head. I think a lot of people underestimate the kind of challenges YouTube faces at their scale.
jrnichols 6y ago
I'm amazed that peer tube isn't full of porn by now too.
- RealStickman_ 6y ago
  It probably is, but afaik you can't see videos from random creators on your peertube instance. You have to subscribe to them to get a feed of their videos.
- vanderZwan 6y ago
  Just checked out the main site - on top of trending is a seven-second clip of a headless woman showing off her cleaveage. Remember when YouTube had to fix that problem?
  - jrnichols 6y ago
    I didn't see that one, but on another instance, I was not at all surprised to see the trailer for the completely debunked film "Plandemic."
fsflover 6y ago
> Are there any good open source solutions to solve these problems? Bonus points if they’ve been proven at scale https://yacy.net/ https://yacy.net/

arp242 6y ago

Years ago (and I think this was actually Google Video, and not YouTube) I was helping a customer who had trouble playing videos on the internet. I think it was one of those "it sometimes stops after a minute or so" problems. I fixed the problem with flash player and to test it I went video.google.com and clicked on a random video on the frontpage without paying much attention to what it was, and continued working on the next laptop while keeping half an eye on the video. This is how I learned about R. Budd Dwyer killing himself on live TV in 1987, as the video was the recording of him shooting himself in the head. I think a lot of people underestimate the kind of challenges YouTube faces at their scale.

jrnichols 6y ago

I'm amazed that peer tube isn't full of porn by now too.

RealStickman_ 6y ago
It probably is, but afaik you can't see videos from random creators on your peertube instance. You have to subscribe to them to get a feed of their videos.
vanderZwan 6y ago
Just checked out the main site - on top of trending is a seven-second clip of a headless woman showing off her cleaveage. Remember when YouTube had to fix that problem?
- jrnichols 6y ago
  I didn't see that one, but on another instance, I was not at all surprised to see the trailer for the completely debunked film "Plandemic."

fsflover 6y ago

> Are there any good open source solutions to solve these problems? Bonus points if they’ve been proven at scale https://yacy.net/ https://yacy.net/