I saw a person post a really good comment in regards to this a few days ago. They said they don’t want their kids going on YouTube. But there are videos they want to watch on YouTube. So they download the videos and put them on their media server. So the kids have their own playlist of videos to watch.

Niche reason: I’m in China and YouTube is blocked. My server has VPN access, but my Kodi system on my TVs doesn’t.

That said, I hadn’t heard of this project, but I’ll probably install it now instead of manually using yt-dlp.

I just use it to be prepared in case youtube wins the ongoing adblocking war.

Have you never seen content you like disappear from the internet without a trace?

Whether it’s music that your streaming provider no longer has license for, media that gets dropped by Amazon or Netflix, or content on YouTube that’s here one day and gone tomorrow?

If you haven’t, stick around a bit!

For me it’s more than just preservation. It’s about an ad free experience and controlling what my kids consume from the platform.

I wonder if this can be used to bypass Ads? I don’t mind 1 or 2 but it shows up like every 2 mins

I use tubesync.

I can’t tell you how many channels have disappeared and been memory-holed. Especially since censorship went into overdrive around 2019.

Data hoarders can show you how the world was before all that happened.

Years ago there was this funny clip of Ben Affleck doing various different Boston accents on the Jimmy Kimmel show. Super funny and became one of those clips that I would seek out a few times a year to rewatch and have a laugh.

It got pulled for for copyright or something which was weird because its really like a 3 minute clip. In any event its gone, forever. Cant find it anywhere.

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Tubearchivist allows us to grab things we plan on rewatching over and over.

Imagine your favorite youtuber decide to just delete their channel… how would you re-watch their content or watch the content you never watched originally…

Essentially it’s the same use case as DVD’s and Blurays… they exist so you can watch the content when you want to regardless of whether they are still available on the original platform.

What if that content isn’t there tomorrow?

Why self host? So you can have an independent instance that can’t be paywalled, deleted, or modified by a third party company like Google…

Google knows exactly what you’re watching and when you’re watching it. Not so much if you just archive everything.

Hi, i use tubearchivist a lot. My usecases:

- I follow several video essasist types whose content has been removed for various reasons- reviews of media Claimed, hit with ‘inappropriate content’ (spuriously, usually). In two cases, there are creators who removed a lot of their older content for reasons that I completely understand, but also want to be able to reference because they made good points.

-Another creator i follow had their channel hacked, all content replaced with bitcoinshilling. The older videos were eventually restored, but there were a couple days where the content was completely unavailible, and the restoration was not exactly guarenteed.

-i use youtube for background noise a lot. This might be one of the reasons i rewatch a lot of essays and reviews or music videos. While yes, i can use regular youtube for this, tracking, ads, etc are an issue (yes, adblockers exist, but youtube is escalating the war with them). It’s easier to just pull up and watch on my own server instead.

Didbt set it up rn, but will tomorrow. I think its perfect if u got childs. So you can define what they can see.