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Look's like Foone was suspended for posting a picture from wikipedia. His threads about retro computing have shown up on hn many times. I'm sure this will get

• pjc50 5y ago
  > the dangers of building a community on someone else's platform. Ultimately if it's a community it's always someone else's platform, even if that someone else is a community. While you can publish stuff on your own website, it's the access to new audience and ability to promote yourself that is always going to end up through an intermediary. Why? Spam. It's been apparent since the days of email that "ability to introduce yourself to new audience" is hugely valuable and hugely abusable. The important thing about Youtube in the video ecosystem is not so much the free (ad-supported) bandwidth, peertube has that, but the list of recommendations. Those are potentially worth millions of dollars, which is why videos are made and thumbnailed purely to get views through them. (There was someone on here recently answering complaints about the gurning face in their thumbnails with "I don't like doing that either, but if I don't I lose 10% of my revenue")
• Tsiklon 5y ago
  Judging by the thread it was a picture they themselves took and uploaded to Wikipedia. So the whole thing looks to be false.