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A release rate of three per day (overall)! This isn't that much different from the rate at which stuff comes up in my modest set of Youtube subscriptions. And
by MarkusWandel 4y ago
A release rate of three per day (overall)!
This isn't that much different from the rate at which stuff comes up in my modest set of Youtube subscriptions. And what of that stuff is worth a rewatch or considered culturally significant? And yet! 100 years from now they'll lament that so much of today's pop culture has simply been lost to random deletion or bit rot.
- chx 4y agoAlready the link rot on youtube is significant. Very often I will find links like "listen to this music it's good", you go to youtube and not even the metadata is left, it's just an error page so you have no idea what it even was.
- xmprt 4y agoMusic on YouTube is probably a bad example because it's subject to a lot of weird licensing restrictions and copyright claims.
- chx 4y agoYes but is that reason to delete the metadata as well?
- judge2020 4y agoI know YouTube will throw a video to an extremely slow archival hard disk where getting 720p requires waiting a few minutes for YT to (presumably) move it to some regular storage tier with reasonable write speeds. But I've never heard of there being rot on the actual data YT stores, and I imagine it's on the same policy as Drive files where they're globally redundant, or at least in two different DCs.
- xyzzy_plugh 4y agoI believe the parent is referring to deleted content, not literal unintended data loss.
- lesfts 4y agoI've seen video corruption myself on this video: https://youtu.be/XmWgskZFkh4 https://youtu.be/XmWgskZFkh4. It's fixed now but there were glitches in the video and audio for a couple of years but somehow got fixed.
- beerandt 4y agoIt's more about policy than physical existence. I have yet to see a definitive answer re true originals being kept vs iterations of transcodes as the preferred codec changes. Or similar questions about deleted videos getting flagged vs scrubbed, etc. Or who might ever have access to originals in either case.
- AlexAplin 4y agoNeil Cicierega's Ariel Needs Legs somewhat infamously had the audio corrupted on its YouTube upload over time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nH6ya5g2-s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nH6ya5g2-s It actually seems better from when I last looked at it, but you can you still hear skipping and audio jitter around spots like at 0:18. I've seen similar behavior on Twitter video uploads over the last few years.
- prithee 4y agoIt is, which is tragic when trying to preserve favorites and all trace is gone (including titles.) I'll intentionally duplicate playlist entries (two different uploaders) as a buffer against rot.
- AlanSE 4y agoPerhaps non-human entities will lament that. Or perhaps humans who are leveraging more advanced search/discovery tools to look for specific things. Otherwise, there is too much content for anyone to view.
- overthrow 4y ago> And what of that stuff is worth a rewatch or considered culturally significant? In some cases you won't know until decades later, when one of those videos becomes "lost media" and people start looking for it. That's why, as long as people are willing to buy hard drives to store everything, we should let them save as much as they want for the future. Because you never know.