Apparently my Fedi promo video is giving error messages on YouTube (shocker).

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@sturmsucht I would have expected nothing less 😂

[anarodrigues@front-end.social]

@_elena ergh, I hope you're okay regardless. It's 100% not fun to receive these things.

[sturmsucht@mastodon.social]

@_elena you should have complicated the video more so that its message is hidden behind being technically correct!

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@anarodrigues thank you Ana. Actually I promise you this comment genuinely made me laugh out loud and increased my love and gratitude for the Fediverse even more. So all good ❤️

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@sturmsucht haha yes

[donamasta@mastodon.social]

@_elena it worked on hardened brave browser mobile app.

[dermoth@jasette.facil.services]

@d1re_w0lf The good villain against the bad villains! Go @_elena

[yuvalne@433.world]

@_elena i suspect it's not just you, someone told me they had the same issue for a 3blue1brown video.
maybe YouTube infrastructure is just crumbling.

[brunogirin@mastodon.me.uk]

@_elena @anarodrigues
Your reply is great!

[dermoth@jasette.facil.services]

@_elena The video works for me: https://youtu.be/YRJHIJy5Nno?si=NCBfVpolwh6DKFso

I generally avoid yt if I can use an alternative like peertube, and I almost never interact with yt videos, but your videos are definitely worth boosting 😀

[dmian@mastodon.social]

@_elena “Elena, congratulations… [stupid rant]…”
“No! Congratulations to you, for making it a whole day without shitting your pants… Oh, no! Don’t worry babe, you’ll make it one day… 😘”

I mean, how seriously should one take a moron? 🤪

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@dermoth thank you! good to know it's playing for you: out of curiosity, which browser do you use and do you have adblock on?

[jsalvador@mastodon.social]

@_elena this person's comment feels like actual fascists calling other people nazis because they have the option to choose.

What a time to be alive.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@brunogirin thank you Bruno! I wish I had had a real zinger but alas, it's not my forte 😅

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@Yuvalne I just noticed I'm having issues playing all sorts of videos on YouTube from Vivaldi, so yes, it's not just me, ouf

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@dermoth haha thanks!

I'm too much of a softie to be a villain, but I'd happily be THIS KIND of villain

@d1re_w0lf

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@jsalvador indeed.

and please stop tempting me to make a new video about FEDERATED social media and what it means... 😅🤣

[themipper@mastodon.social]

@_elena I love your video! Just have to say it again.

It works for me and I am behind a strict pi-hole and two active ad-blockers on Vivaldi.

But I got an overlay-message that roughly said "If you are having trouble watching the video report it <here>".

I could imagine that this is some kind of youtube filter to push down content they don't like to get more reach. Or an anti-ad-blocker strategy.

[dermoth@jasette.facil.services]

@_elena It was the yt app on Android. Usually I open videos in incognito on Chrome (Android usually, or on my computer), except from select accounts I'm familiar with. I just tested and it worked from Chrome too (incognito).

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@themipper ah fascinating!!! Thank you for letting me know! 🙏

I'm also on Vivaldi (with strict "no ads, no trackers" settings) and I use NextDNS.

With NextDNS turned off I still I couldn't play the video, so I thought it might have been something to do with my Vivaldi settings...