Can't get any screenshots right now, but I left a comment on the recent Onion video about the white house trans alarm, just a funny little bit about how republicans can't decide what bathroom trans people should be using.
It stayed up for a while, then just suddenly vanished. I tested a combination of words to see what triggered it. Any comments that I used the word "cis" in were instantaneously shadow banned. Additionally, when trying to let people know about that, I discovered merely referring to a shadow ban also gets your comment shadow banned, presumably to keep people from talking about the practice.
Just to be safe, I control-F'd and searched the entire comment section for the word cis. It was a video about trans people. It's a straight up inevitability that it'd be used at least once. But nope, not a single reference to the word anywhere in the comments. That settles it in my mind.
I don't know why I expected YouTube to be better than that.
Peertube is pretty good already, just need more people posting videos
How does the hosting work?
Same as the rest of the fediverse