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Re:Fosshost Is Shutting Down by svnpenn on Saturday December 03, 2022 @08:26PM (#33849549)
> There's really no reason not to host on industry-standard free hosting, ie Github

GitHub will autoban accounts that post certain content. For example, I had an account for three years, with hundreds of stars across different repos. I pushed an M3U8 file containing content that GitHub didn't like for some reason, boom, account dead. No warning, not even an email with explanation.

Every single issue or comment that I ever posted across three years is now gone.

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Re:Fosshost Is Shutting Down by svnpenn on Saturday December 03, 2022 @09:11PM (#33849846)
URLs from tv.apple.com, paramountplus.com, roku.com. Although to be fair, most (all?) of those URLs expire after one hour or so, so its purely to test parsing the playlist files
Re:Fosshost Is Shutting Down by Brian_K_White on Saturday December 03, 2022 @09:36PM (#33849991)
My account was banned for no explicable reason one day (I have nothing remotely controvercial). They reinstated it after I contacted support they never answered my question "why?", because of course they don't even know why. Some ai black box did it and luckily a human was able to undo it. And even if they did kn9w why, they would probably still not say, under the guise of "we don't want to tell the hackers how to get around it"

Welcome to late early stage advent of the internet.