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    Pornhub being the foundation of the internet may be seen as controversial by some.

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      Maybe not specifically PH but porn actually always was the driving force for the net since day 1. We don’t have high speed net now because someone needed to download a linux-distro quicker. Or google harder. YouTube and vimeo and such came waaaaaaay later. There also were no social media where people needed to upload large dog-pics. It was porn. Everyone wanted their tits to download NOW not somewhere in the future.

      And I vividly remember the times where you had to wait for a long while to see your image grow line by line until you finally maybe saw said tit, and it surely - and hopefully - wasn’t a bird 😁

      I have no studies at hand but I’d bet part of my left nut on that theory. Hence I found that image concluding.

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    PORNHUB

    It’s Pornhub, like https://pornhub.com/. One of the biggest (if not the biggest) porn site on the planet, used by millions if not billions. There is nothing wrong with watching porn if you feel like it. What you do in your own home is your own business. Just don’t wank too much, or you are going to have health issues. Which are also totally normal and you should just go talk to your doctor, they will not be surprised or shocked, it is literally their job to deal with stuff like that.

    I feel the world is going crazy. Shoving all of this stuff under the carpet isn’t helping anyone and won’t make it go away. Half of the time I can’t understand my young niece and nephew because they speak in this code language, evolving all the time so they can talk about normal stuff young people talk about and stay ahead of the big censor machine. And often it’s censored so poorly, everyone can still read it, like what was the point then?

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    I’m actually amazed by how the Pornhub and Xvideos players, after all this time, are still better than the Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, and TikTok players, like it’s not even comparable. The way people can just accept whatever slop any corporate will feed them is just insane to me…

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      maybe I’m missing out because I don’t watch content on pornhub, but how good does a video player need to be? it’s a video player, seems like a solved problem to me.

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        • no ads or sponsor crap (sponsor only if sponsor is <5s and only at the start of vid)
        • buffering is efficient and quick
        • subtitles available in widescreen, small etc
        • can change volume and resolution
        • can be judged by community with a non-karma system
        • little to no algorithm or AI slop
        • can custom select videos (by date, popularity, tags, or whatever)
        • peer to peer, decentralised and FOSS
        • privacy friendly
        • can download, usable offline
        • none of that copyright bullshit

        In short, a no-nonsense normal video player without a profit motive.

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        Decent buffering, decent scrubbing with thumbnail preview, double tap to skip 10 sec forward or back, proper fullscreen on desktop, and orientation on mobile. That’s just to cite the very least. Imagine how good the YouTube player is, and how smoothly it works 90% of the time. Pornhub works that smoothly 100% of the time, with 90% of the features.

        TikTok doesn’t even let you scrub, at all.

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        Sure, maybe in the same way that the Ford Model T-500 is a solution to the problem of automobiles.

        Pornhub is a car from the 201Xs. And most other media players are varyingly from 1960 and 2025, i.e. out-of-date and over-engineered.

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        Iirc PH was first with the thumbnail pop up when hovering over the timeline. They also had the “waveform” thing of where users watched the most. Sure a video player is just a video player. But all the extra features like changing quality, playback speed, buffering tech, subtitles, and so much more really add up to a better experience.

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    Porn is not a bad word. People need to learn how to edit images for the sake of uncensoring shit if nothing else

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    Can we PLEASE make ffmpeg use GPL for everything?

    Actually, can we do that for just all open source software. I’m getting kinda tired of large multinationals using open source for free to make billions over billions and then give back a dollar or so for each of those…

    Maybe there are exceptions here and there but most companies give back shit

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    FFmpeg doesn’t deserve to be such a tiny block. Nothing else comes close to matching its stability and simplicity. There’s a reason it’s practically part of the foundation for all media software out there.

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      Tiny block in the grand scheme of things.
      This picture doesnt work if you replace the stick with the huge boulder.

      Maybe if you visualize it as the foundation of a building.
      Then it makes sense.

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        Well eh, the binary seems to be about 130MB while the ffmpeg source repository is only 80MB (and the version with separate .so files (all part of the project as far as I can see) is even larger)

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    I like how this implies Twitter storage is encoded in YouTube videos which are really just hosted on PornHub.