cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/539688

From the article: Moving to the Fediverse This tension between these communities and their host have, again, fueled more interest in the Fediverse as a decentralized refuge. A social network built on an open protocol can afford some host-agnosticism, and allow communities to persist even if individual hosts fail or start to abuse their power. Unfortunately, discussions of Reddit-like fediverse services Lemmy and Kbin on Reddit were colored by paranoia after the company banned users and subreddits related to these projects (reportedly due to “spam”). While these accounts and subreddits have been reinstated, the potential for censorship around such projects has made a Reddit exodus feel more urgently necessary, as we saw last fall when Twitter cracked down on discussions of its Fediverse-alternative, Mastodon.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1667314848856948736

Tweet where he announces this

Seems like every major social media company had a bet on who can implement the worst idea possible.

I think we all know about this, you're on Lemmy after all.

From newest to oldest:

• Some subreddits now going NSFW to prevent ads and protest (lol)
• r/ModCoord post on alternate forms of protest, in light of staff forcing subreddits open
• News post about Advertisers on Reddit weathering the protest
• r/ModCoord post on indefinite and temporary blackouts
• spez assures people that protests haven't hurt revenue
• RedDark, a website that lets you see how many subreddits have gone dark.
• spez's (Reddit CEO's) post on API changes
• iamthatis's (Apollo Dev's) post on shutting down
• talklittle's (RIF Dev's) post on shutting down
• LibReddit's post on API changes

More links and detailed info to be added later.

TL;DR: YouTube sends a Cease and Desist email to the Invidious team for API abuse (even though they don't use the API.)

Source

I also want to point out (since nobody else has) that YT has done shenanigans like this in the past. Invidious is not going down without a fight.

UPDATE

As of 2 weeks ago, Google has begun blocking multiple instances from accessing their services. This also includes my own instance and appears to be done alongside the C&D. (Note: I have not received one yet.) I'm currently playing whack & mole with Google and will be moving between several different servers. Some others are going through IPv6 addresses (which didn't work for me.)