I love that the quote from the Democrat is completely not applicable to what this law does. If you’re purchasing a gun from a dealer you’re still going to have to do a background check. You just won’t need a permit. So dumb.
Always gives me a little hit of dopamine when I see:
- Invidious for YouTube (https://instances.invidio.us/)
- Bibliogram for Instagram (https://git.sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram-docs/tree/master/docs/Instances.md)
- Nitter for Twitter (https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances)
Or even people talking about YouTube-dl to grab videos from a bunch of sites to keep a local copy or upload somewhere else:
Can’t throw one up right now but it’s pretty easy and a good skill to have.
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You can download videos from tweets and many other sites using this:
Then you can repost to any of these locations with a link in the description back to the source tweet (this does not leak info to Twitter and gives people the choice to visit the source):
Video Hosting
- https://odysee.com/ (Decentralized)
- https://videy.co/ (No Account Required)
- https://bitchute.com/
It basically serves as a middleman between you and Twitter concealing for the most part your personal information. Anyone can make a copy and host their own instance of the software so it’s hard to take out the capability entirely as more will pop up.
It’s in the same category as:
- Invidious for YouTube (https://instances.invidio.us/)
- Bibliogram for Instagram (https://git.sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram-docs/tree/master/docs/Instances.md)
- Nitter for Twitter (https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances)
Keeping a local copy of the file in the form of a screenshot or ripping the video using a tools like this is always better though since it can then be uploaded somewhere in the future:
What do you mean a better version? If you mean a file that you can post elsewhere then use this to download it:
Then repost elsewhere or to these platforms:
- https://odysee.com/ (Decentralized)
- https://videy.co/ (No Account Required)
- https://bitchute.com/
Thank for throwing down the nitter link!
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For everyone else’s benefit:
The reason you should not link directly is because the embedded tweet loads tracker elements into the browser of anyone who opens it. Very similar to what happens with Facebook Like Buttons. This means that they then have insight into who specifically is viewing the post even if it’s the embedded version (because the video loads from their servers).
Screenshots are another way to avoid this for text and image posts on Twitter and other social media. You can also download videos from tweets using this:
Then you can repost to any of these locations with a link in the description back to the source tweet (this does not leak info to Twitter and gives people the choice to visit the source):
Video Hosting
- https://odysee.com/ (Decentralized)
- https://videy.co/ (No Account Required)
- https://bitchute.com/
Or even upload to a distributed service like IPFS or Siasky that is way more difficult to censor (plus you maintain your local copy).
Here is a way to sanitize links to Twitter:
The reason you should not link directly is because the embedded tweet loads tracker elements into the browser of anyone who opens it. Very similar to what happens with Facebook Like Buttons. This means that they then have insight into who specifically is viewing the post even if it’s the embedded version (because the video loads from their servers).
Screenshots are another way to avoid this for text and image posts on Twitter and other social media. You can also download videos from tweets using this:
Then you can repost to any of these locations with a link in the description back to the source tweet (this does not leak info to Twitter and gives people the choice to visit the source):
Video Hosting
- https://odysee.com/ (Decentralized)
- https://videy.co/ (No Account Required)
- https://bitchute.com/
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You can also help keep content like this available by learning about IPFS (it's really easy) and specifically how to "pin" files.
The easiest way to start contributing is installing the IPFS Web Companion:
You can download videos from many sites using this (Twitter, YouTube, etc):
- https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl (Utility)
Then you can upload to these recommended video hosts:
- https://videy.co/ (No Account Required)
- https://odysee.com/ (Decentralized)
- https://bitchute.com/
You can also throw it on decentralized general purpose storage services:
- https://eternum.io (IPFS)
- https://siasky.net (alts: skyportal.xyz, skydrain.net)
Or pin the file to IPFS yourself:
Or a centralized but privacy respecting encrypted services:
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We're heading towards a significantly more censorious future so consider looking into tools that are even more censorship resistant like:
Although StreamableDL is a good download service it does rely on the file still existing on Streamable for a download to take place.
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You can download videos from many sites using this (Twitter, YouTube, etc):
- (Utility) https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
Then you can upload to these recommended video hosts:
- https://videy.co/ (No Account Required)
- https://odysee.com/ (Decentralized)
- https://bitchute.com/
You can also throw it on decentralized general purpose storage services:
- https://eternum.io (IPFS)
- https://siasky.net (alts: skyportal.xyz, skydrain.net)
Or pin the file to IPFS yourself:
Or a centralized but privacy respecting encrypted services:
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We're heading towards a significantly more censorious future so looking into tools that are even more censorship resistant check stuff like OnionShare:
You can download videos from many sites using this (Twitter, YouTube, etc):
- (Utility) https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
Then you can upload to these recommended video hosts:
- https://videy.co/ (No Account Required)
- https://odysee.com/ (Decentralized)
- https://bitchute.com/
You can also throw it on decentralized general purpose storage services:
- https://eternum.io (IPFS)
- https://siasky.net (alts: skyportal.xyz, skydrain.net)
Or pin the file to IPFS yourself:
Or a centralized but privacy respecting encrypted services:
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We're heading towards a significantly more censorious future so looking into tools that are even more censorship resistant check stuff like OnionShare:
Found it on Skynet and Videy:
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I'm not able to upload to IPFS at the moment but you can help keep content like this available by learning about IPFS (it's really easy) and specifically how to "pin" files.
The easiest way to start contributing is installing the IPFS Web Companion:
He also apparently got fined for feeding the homeless.