Self-hosting your own media considered harmful

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A content creator received two YouTube community guidelines violations for videos demonstrating self-hosted media solutions like LibreELEC and Jellyfin, despite showing only legal content management. YouTube flagged these tutorials as promoting unauthorized access to paid content, even though they focused on managing legally-owned media. The creator discusses the challenges of platform dependency, alternative hosting options like Floatplane and Internet Archive, and the economic realities of content creation outside major platforms.

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