We've figured out why our Sierra Leone solar vid has so few views. YouTube shadow-banned it as political content. We only found out because, in desperation, we tried to promote it. Apparently saving babies' lives is political in the US today. We have appealed, but WTAF! youtube.com/watch?v=yMxJ... - ThreadSky

mliebreich.bsky.social • 44 days ago

We've figured out why our Sierra Leone solar vid has so few views. YouTube shadow-banned it as political content. We only found out because, in desperation, we tried to promote it. Apparently saving babies' lives is political in the US today. We have appealed, but WTAF!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yMxJzLNc214&si=sbXQv8yFC9IIDbGx

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rodbhar.bsky.social•43 days ago

I saved the video in my watch list fortunately

dirkgentley.bsky.social•43 days ago

Don't forget the Republicans in USA are only interested in the unborn, couldn't give a stuff for them after birth.

adamgeron.bsky.social•44 days ago

Agreed, WTAF! It sucks to be stuck with this shitshow of an admin. and when we need them most, all of the checks and balances are abdicating their responsibility to shut this down. There are probably hundreds of individual offenses at this point that would warrant Impeachment in normal times.

carbonwaechter.bsky.social•44 days ago

Renewable energy and saving lives? The woke mind virus has infected you!

mliebreich.bsky.social•43 days ago

Indeed. Though I would argue that I have stayed who I was, and the anti-woke mind virus has infected the other lot...

richmorrow.bsky.social•43 days ago

That was a lovely and positive episode, Michael. It's inspiring to see dedicated people help others (esp. with no running water! ). Sorry to hear this video is regarded as political; the worst thing is it could be due to the act of charity, the location, the energy source, or all three! 😠

stockfttp.bsky.social•43 days ago

Watched it when it first came out. It was great. Genuinely baffled where the politics is 🤔🙄

jimnmn.bsky.social•44 days ago

Just finished watching this on youtube. What a great story now we just need to replicate it thousands more times

sicy.bsky.social•43 days ago

I’ve been saving this for an actual watch vs listening on the commute for once.

richard.wickedproblems.earth•44 days ago

Thanks for raising this. You’ll probably get relief bc of your profile. But some of us having been seeing this for a year or more.

mliebreich.bsky.social•43 days ago

I doubt YouTube will care. Sad, because we were on track to do a million downloads per year before they started throttling our account.

rikgoverde.bsky.social•44 days ago

Bizarre… Was impressive podcast…!

mliebreich.bsky.social•43 days ago

Thanks Rik! Please help spread the word, since YouTube won't.

scalextrix.bsky.social•44 days ago

We need more alternatives to US media

patriiiiiiiiiick.bsky.social•44 days ago

https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/youtube

pauleastwd.bsky.social•44 days ago

Sorry to hear this, Michael. How are they shadow banning the video?

mliebreich.bsky.social•43 days ago

Three sources of YouTube viewers: our own channel subscribers; click throughs from our social media; and YouTube searches and recommendations. We only drive about 2k views ourselves, but our top episodes get > 40k views. The difference is YouTube - if the algorithm excludes a video, it's invisible.

sebasfc.bsky.social•43 days ago

Maybe it is time to counter the Digital Coup, we are exposing ourselves and use European video platforms like @dailymotion.bsky.social #BuyFromEU

mliebreich.bsky.social•43 days ago

Waste of time. You have to be where the audience is.

sebasfc.bsky.social•43 days ago

I guess there are qualitative difference of audiences, maybe a reason why you are not posting this on Xhitter.

mliebreich.bsky.social•43 days ago

The audience is no longer on Xitter. I have 70,000 followers, but they drive 10x less engagement than 50,000 on LinkedIn. I reckon most are dormant accounts.

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