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SpaceX does not stream on YouTube, you are watching an old launch on a fake channel. Please report them.

by cam72cam 3y ago

namaria 3y ago
Dang I got got. Thanks for letting me know
- bluescrn 3y ago
  You weren't the only one, I clicked on it too, as did thousands of others, before finding a real stream
  - sneak 3y ago
    YouTube does a bad job of real time takedowns of spoofed live streams. You’d think for big events like this they would have somebody just standing by and monitoring social stuff so that things like this don’t happen. Then again you'd think one of Amazon's 1.5M employees would have the job of finding fake USB sticks for sale on the site, but apparently nobody has that title either.
    - dylan604 3y ago
      > You’d think for big events like this they would have somebody just standing by This implies that YT has humans that are not in sales. It feels like YT just has bots building more bots at this point.
dpcx 3y ago
Is that new? Because SpaceX has streamed launches on YouTube for years.
- TOMDM 3y ago
  Yes, the official stream is only on Twitter now.
  - greedo 3y ago
    They also stream the launch live on the spacex.com website.
    - sneak 3y ago
      That’s a Twitter embed on the SpaceX website. It’s still streaming from Twitter.
      - dylan604 3y ago
        but no Twit...er, X account required
        namaria 3y ago
        I will be deep in the cold cold ground before I recognize Twitter's new name
        dylan604 3y ago
        you see how I refer to it. it gets both names in there, and expresses the disdain and the confusion all in one go.
    - ta1243 3y ago
      Thank you I tried signing up for twitter but gave up at the "match these dice with these symbols (1 of 10)" stage. It's not a great interface compared with youtube etc, not rewinding etc, but at least it works
- pixl97 3y ago
  They did that for IFT-2 and the first channel I went to was one of those crypto bullshit things too. Very dumb decision on SpaceX's (well probably Musk himself) part.
- Hamuko 3y ago
  Musk decided that Twitter is now a video platform and he's decided to dogfeed with SpaceX.
  - atonse 3y ago
    Twitter was a video platform before Musk took over. They were doing Thursday night football (NFL) and other things. Looking at the SpaceX feed, they seem to be using whatever tech they got from the Periscope acquisition (at least the servers were still pscp.tv).
    - Hamuko 3y ago
      Twitter was not a video platform – it had (some) video features. Very different. And people always considered Twitter videos to absolutely suck.
      - hnbad 3y ago
        That hasn't really changed though. He's just decided to manifest "Twitter is a video platform" into existence. The controls are still total ass though.
      - atonse 3y ago
        Yes just to be pedantic, twitter has never been "a video platform" – but that they've had support for streaming live events for years. So take with that whatever it means, that it's just not going to be as first-class citizen like in Youtube. But the CDN etc must be good enough as those things are easier to do nowadays.

SpaceX does not stream on YouTube, you are watching an old launch on a fake channel. Please report them.

namaria 3y ago

Dang I got got. Thanks for letting me know

bluescrn 3y ago
You weren't the only one, I clicked on it too, as did thousands of others, before finding a real stream
- sneak 3y ago
  YouTube does a bad job of real time takedowns of spoofed live streams. You’d think for big events like this they would have somebody just standing by and monitoring social stuff so that things like this don’t happen. Then again you'd think one of Amazon's 1.5M employees would have the job of finding fake USB sticks for sale on the site, but apparently nobody has that title either.
  - dylan604 3y ago
    > You’d think for big events like this they would have somebody just standing by This implies that YT has humans that are not in sales. It feels like YT just has bots building more bots at this point.

dpcx 3y ago

Is that new? Because SpaceX has streamed launches on YouTube for years.

TOMDM 3y ago
Yes, the official stream is only on Twitter now.
- greedo 3y ago
  They also stream the launch live on the spacex.com website.
  - sneak 3y ago
    That’s a Twitter embed on the SpaceX website. It’s still streaming from Twitter.
    - dylan604 3y ago
      but no Twit...er, X account required
      - namaria 3y ago
        I will be deep in the cold cold ground before I recognize Twitter's new name
        dylan604 3y ago
        you see how I refer to it. it gets both names in there, and expresses the disdain and the confusion all in one go.
  - ta1243 3y ago
    Thank you I tried signing up for twitter but gave up at the "match these dice with these symbols (1 of 10)" stage. It's not a great interface compared with youtube etc, not rewinding etc, but at least it works
pixl97 3y ago
They did that for IFT-2 and the first channel I went to was one of those crypto bullshit things too. Very dumb decision on SpaceX's (well probably Musk himself) part.
Hamuko 3y ago
Musk decided that Twitter is now a video platform and he's decided to dogfeed with SpaceX.
- atonse 3y ago
  Twitter was a video platform before Musk took over. They were doing Thursday night football (NFL) and other things. Looking at the SpaceX feed, they seem to be using whatever tech they got from the Periscope acquisition (at least the servers were still pscp.tv).
  - Hamuko 3y ago
    Twitter was not a video platform – it had (some) video features. Very different. And people always considered Twitter videos to absolutely suck.
    - hnbad 3y ago
      That hasn't really changed though. He's just decided to manifest "Twitter is a video platform" into existence. The controls are still total ass though.
    - atonse 3y ago
      Yes just to be pedantic, twitter has never been "a video platform" – but that they've had support for streaming live events for years. So take with that whatever it means, that it's just not going to be as first-class citizen like in Youtube. But the CDN etc must be good enough as those things are easier to do nowadays.