[oefrha]

Honestly, if I wasn't a technical guy and I saw my channel and all my content on some piped.kavin.rocks or yewtu.be which aren't visually distinguishable from all the non-alternative-YouTube-frontend tube sites, I would assume someone's ripping all my content and impersonating me as well. I can totally see where the DMCA is coming from.

And even knowing the technical differences, one may want to dissociate with a stupid domain name like yewtu.be.

Edit: I showed https://yewtu.be/channel/<channel_id> to a content creator friend just now. Predictably, the reaction is "WTF, am I being impersonated? What should I do?"

[BlackLotus89]

Why is yewtu.be a stupid domainname? It's an "alternative" spelling of youtu.be that's easy to memorize and fast to type. I use a plugin to redirect to newpipe instances, but if I hadn't one I would probably use yewtu.be because it would suck to always type something like piped.kavin.rocks or invidious.pussthecat.org

[newsclues]

I think that is a comment about alt right commentators online. YewTube sounds like an anti Semitic joke.

[phyzome]

That seems like overactive pattern-matching to me. Yew is a plant.

[Cyberdog]

Jesus, people see nazis behind every blade of grass nowadays.

Pray tell, what is antisemitic about "YewTube?" Just that it's one letter away from "JewTube?" Sure, but if the creators intended to be antisemitic, why not just call it that then?

[BlackLotus89]

Oh I even checked urbandict to be sure that it couldn't be this and all I found was the happy sound surfer make "Yew".

I think that's just a sign of the times that you see right-wing and left-wing comments everywhere even when it isn't there at all.