Over the time new youtube videos crop up talking about reddit, twitch and twitter issues. And in those comment sections I always like to spread the word of alternatives (like the fediverse). But whenever I do, those comments get quietly removed even though they seem to be posted in the first place.

Whenever I try to add further details, for example name dropping lemmy/bin pixelfeed peertube and mastodon, to previously posted comments those error out and gets deleted entirely.

Anyone else made that observation?

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[–] Kotking@mastodon.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Drunemeton @DmMacniel Nope, as someone who upload gameplay videos can tell you, you need to verification yourself before they will allow to post links in description. So all links provided by Youtuber are because they are trustworthy or just gone through the verification process. I am lazy to do and my country is not supported for monetization so no deal for me to go through = no outside links in description. You can try it for yourself.

[–] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does one verify themselves? I have a Google account that I use and I just checked the settings in YouTube. No “verification” option was listed.

[–] Kotking@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Drunemeton https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/171664?hl=en and here googled how to put links for new creators guide https://influencermarketinghub.com/clickable-links-youtube/.

[–] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Perfect. Thank you!