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[–]ergzay 768 points769 points  (56 children)

It rather sucks as they recently went to 4k streams on Youtube and the bitrate on Twitter, even when it's at its best, is still a very low bitrate at 1080p resolution, much worse than Youtube's already low 1080p bitrate.

People will probably host restreams on youtube to watch.

[–]Pumpkin-Moose 266 points267 points  (11 children)

Has anyone called Pied Piper yet?

[–]Cuttewfish_Asparagus 123 points124 points  (8 children)

The 'Middle Out' scene remains one of the funniest comedy scenes ever commited to camera

[–]Livid_Luck 39 points40 points  (5 children)

What do you think the 'mean jerk time' of Elon Musk would be?

[–]Cuttewfish_Asparagus 16 points17 points  (3 children)

I don't know why, but his energy tells me it would be lower than average.

[–]Optimus_Prime_Day 7 points8 points  (2 children)

I mean, he's already a jerk

[–]arafdi 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I heard those End Frame guys can do it better and cheaper, just ask those porn guys...

[–]ChocolateGoggles 46 points47 points  (9 children)

What's the point of a restream if the source quality is Twitter level?

[–]NatoBoram 188 points189 points  (2 children)

Not having to go on Twitter

[–]ChocolateGoggles 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Haha. True! I deleted my account a few months ago.

[–]made3 8 points9 points  (1 child)

To be fair, people like Everyday Astronaut have their own cameras set up for important starts. For example the Starship launch attempts and the quality is as good as the official, if not better.

[–]Large_Dr_Pepper 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Cause I'll be a able to select 4K on YouTube and watch the 1080p restream even better!

[–]bookers555 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Bear in mind there's plenty of channels that will still broadcast these launches, like The Launch Pad or NASASpaceflight, only one that won't is the official SpaceX youtube channel.

[–]Radaysha 11 points12 points  (16 children)

Didn't YT just lower the bitrate for non-premium subscribers? Some vids started to look like ass and I reckon that's just the beginning.

[–]nethingelse 28 points29 points  (12 children)

They didn't lower the bitrate for non-premium, they just introduced a quality setting that raises it for premium. So if you're not premium quality remains the same, and if you are you can use higher bitrate if you want.

[–]Radaysha 6 points7 points  (8 children)

Yeah, that's what they tell you but I don't believe it. Certain vids where you can choose the "enhanced bitrate with premium" look noticable worse than before. They probably really enhanced the bitrate for premium users, but it's also lower for non-premium.

I found no proof for that though, YT doesn't tell you the bitrate of their vids.

[–]nethingelse 4 points5 points  (1 child)

They could very well be A B testing lower bitrates for non-premium to see if it's noticed. Wouldn't be a huge shock despite their word being bitrates should be the same.

[–]ErTaiGa 5 points6 points  (2 children)

YouTube is known to pull hidden shit like this (and getting caught doing so), so there's a 99% chance that it's actually the case here too, especially when there's a paid service as an "alternative"... I'm not using YouTube premium but I won't be surprised if the Bitrate of Premium is higher now until they step by step lower the bitrate for 1080p so YouTube premium bitrate will be normal bitrate some years ago at that time.

[–]0factoral 885 points886 points  (25 children)

Hope Everyday Astronaut is ready with his van for the next big launch!

[–]LazyLizzy 407 points408 points  (7 children)

Don't forget NASA Spaceflight! Those guys are great as well.

[–]UptownShenanigans 68 points69 points  (0 children)

Hands down the most varied and continuous coverage of Starship. They’re really transforming into quite the network. I watch them every day

[–]Majorjim_ksp 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Yeah! Will they still be able to stream it on YouTube?

[–]LazyLizzy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don'y see why not, they have their own cameras setup at spaceX

[–]uwuowo6510 15 points16 points  (1 child)

i dont like their commentary much but they have decent views

[–]Majorjim_ksp 11 points12 points  (0 children)

They are so passionate it’s hard to not get caught up in it.

[–]whiteb8917 26 points27 points  (2 children)

Tim has a rented villa down there, he used it for the last Starship attempt.

[–]PotatoesAndChill 20 points21 points  (1 child)

If I understood his van commentary correctly, he currently has ALL his gear inside the van, and he literally plugs his villa studio into the van in order to stream from there.

[–]Jedi182 315 points316 points  (7 children)

"Rocket launch x videos" could net interesting results on Google

[–]i_should_be_coding 52 points53 points  (5 children)

Next week Elon is gonna claim xvideos caused Twitter's value to drop by associating it with porn.

[–]yahoohak 17 points18 points  (1 child)

You mean next week he buys xvideos for $420.69 per share

[–]SwissCanuck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s few people that could throw money at that problem but tbh he’s one of them.

[–]ZenEngineer 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I wonder if Xvideos can sue X for trademark violations if they start showing X videos.

[–]mcmasterstb 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Kylie Rocket xxx videos?

[–]krisalyssa 248 points249 points  (11 children)

TBH, I haven’t watched one in a while. They happen so frequently now I keep forgetting that they’re happening. (I think that’s a good thing. Airplane takeoffs aren’t newsworthy, because they’re going on all the time. As long as safety doesn’t slip and corners aren’t cut, I’m happy if orbital launches become as commonplace and mundane.)

[–]KAugsburger 61 points62 points  (4 children)

I don't watch them much anymore, either. Outside of the occasional Falcon Heavy launch they all look about the same. Nobody really expects them to fail these days so it isn't like there is much drama about whether they are going to successfully going to get the payload to the desired orbit, either.

[–]aveferrum 14 points15 points  (3 children)

He's channelling the Starship hype.

[–]bozleh 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There's gonna be the next starship launch attempt in the coming weeks/months - I'll be watching one of the other streams on youtube though!

[–]_MissionControlled_ 1678 points1679 points  (141 children)

Guess I'm not watching the official launch feed anymore.

[–]Casporo 403 points404 points  (37 children)

Well it will be in X - Videos then

[–]_MissionControlled_ 161 points162 points  (10 children)

lots of great red rocket video's to see

[–]michelobX10 108 points109 points  (3 children)

What are you doing, step-rocket?

[–]PianoMan2112 45 points46 points  (2 children)

Wanna see my BFR?

[–]Embarrassed-Pay-9897 1 point2 points  (1 child)

She's working on all thrusters

[–]PotatoesAndChill 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Watch out, "red rocket" may not mean what you think it means.

[–]altinit 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I mean, there is plenty of doggy style on that site for sure

[–]amakai 43 points44 points  (5 children)

Now I'm curious, if he actually creates something called "X - Videos", would xvideos be able to sue him?

[–]Casporo 58 points59 points  (2 children)

Lets find out. We are in the fuck around phase

[–]Mateorabi 38 points39 points  (1 child)

TBF, xvideos has been in the fuck around phase since its inception...

[–]ozzymanii 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Don't you mean conception?

[–]Rashernius_Butticus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I feel like that if launch videos were uploaded there it would be fantastic advertising for them. They'd get DMCA'd quick when someone uploaded it, but traffic would probably bump up from the links.

... launch videos and bump up... just realised the word choice. Heh, porn. I don't care if I'm in my mid thirties. Everyone is allowed to chuckle at dirty sounding things once in awhile.

[–]JohnDuttton 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Why does this sound like a porn site to me?

[–]SnakeJG 42 points43 points  (4 children)

Yeah, we had a nice run, but now I guess Earthy and I will just have to read about the launches later. I deleted my Twitter account, no way will I be creating a new one on X.

[–]iceynyo 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Do you need an account to watch the videos?

[–]SnakeJG 8 points9 points  (0 children)

At one point Musk turned off all access unless you had an account. I think he walked some of that back now, but a lot of actions, like clicking on an account to browse their tweets, are still locked to only account holders.

[–]Necessary_Context780 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I explicitly avoid clicking on any Twitter link. Aside from a couple folks omitting the full URL when linking on reddit, I haven't visited the Twitter website a single time since October. A lot of other people are doing the same, even SpaceX isn't going to change that for me

[–]desqviewX 3 points4 points  (1 child)

YouTube us bad enough, but at least you can avoid the comments there. On Twitter, they're shoved into your face and the most antagonizing at that.

Twitter is just Truth Social for Elon, I'll have no part of it, no matter how much I like SpaceX.

[–]Ogediah 8 points9 points  (22 children)

I don’t have a Twitter account. IMO, Musk is an uber dousche. I’ve even refused to purchase a Tesla for that reason. However, If his platform gets rid of the cancerous fucking ads plaguing YT, the. I’d consider using it for video streaming. YT is out of control.

[–][deleted] 34 points35 points  (2 children)

Twitter/X is filled with ads and spam... so wouldn't count on it.

[–]Necessary_Context780 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Besides, Musk has a lot more bills to pay to get out of the hell he dug for himself so I expect even more ads than YT. Say, Mike Lindells face popping up every 10 seconds of the T minus countdown

[–]clarinetJWD 17 points18 points  (1 child)

A few years ago, I was planning my next car. Tesla 3, Tesla Cybertuck, or Ford Mustang Mach E.

Elon made my choice easy...

[–]astrono-me 27 points28 points  (7 children)

Do you for some reason think that twitter was not funded by advertising?

[–]Ogediah 9 points10 points  (6 children)

I didn’t say that twitter wasn’t funded by ads. I said that YT’s ads are out of control. They’ve become extremely intrusive and severely impact my experience on the website.

Since it seems to need saying: There’s a huge difference between scrolling past an ad on Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit and having the content you are interested in disappear for 30 seconds at a time over and over and over again while you’re forced to watch commercials.

[–]godspareme 16 points17 points  (2 children)

If you watch YouTube on a computer/laptop, get an ad blocker. On the app, ill usually watch a lot of videos on the home page preview autoplay, it doesn't have ads.

[–]recalcitrantJester 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just use NewPipe on mobile.

[–]Necessary_Context780 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shhh... don't say it out loud or the preview might end up filled with ads too

[–]JtheNinja 14 points15 points  (1 child)

Youtube premium is totally worth the $14 a month. Absolutely all of that stuff is simply gone from the website. All of them, everywhere, on every device. Even most of the little popovers to sub to stuff like youtube TV are gone, I think the only one I've seen since I subscribed was for NFL Sunday Ticket, and that only appeared once.

At this point, I think of YT as primarily a paid service that happens to have a shitty free tier.

[–]NNovis 159 points160 points  (41 children)

That's a real shame. Limiting the reach with this move.

[–]KAugsburger 37 points38 points  (38 children)

I am not even sure that SpaceX even really cares that much. 99.99%+ of the viewers aren't potential customers and they aren't publicly traded so isn't like most of us could even buy SpaceX stocks if we wanted to.

[–]master-shake69 56 points57 points  (9 children)

Like others have said, it's about PR and public perception. If people can easily see SpaceX doing good things with their tax dollars, they're more likely to continue supporting it. I'm not saying you or I have much of a choice for where our taxes go, but it wouldn't be the first time something unpopular got the axe.

[–]danielv123 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Also, they are one of the "cool jobs" which helps attracting talent. PR and coverage is important to keep that status.

[–]NNovis 18 points19 points  (24 children)

The government has invested a lot of money into SpaceX, even though it is a private company. If the people get fed up with that spending, cut backs can happen. So I wouldn't count out the sway PR.

Also, Elon wants people to see his shit because he thinks he's incredible. It's probably partly why he's making this move, thinking he can help bolster X numbers with rocket launches and good PR. I personally don't think it's going to work out but who knows anymore.

[–]SadMacaroon9897 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If the people get fed up with that spending, cut backs can happen

How's that working for Lockheed and Boeing? As far as I can tell, moving to SpaceX had little to do with PR and more about ability. Boeing has yet to be able to safely fly people to orbit despite several attempts and the pair are basing their hopes on Centaur...which could very well be obsolete by the time it flies.

[–]Disco_is_Death 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They are potential customers - they're tax payers.

Hyping the cool spaceship means we're less likely to complain when the government buys the cool spaceship.

[–]ShitbirdMcDickbird 53 points54 points  (0 children)

I've gone this long without ever using Twitter, theres nothing they're going to do now that's going to make me make an account

[–]DaveyJonas 43 points44 points  (2 children)

Is this a good idea?

Press X to Doubt

[–]chairmanskitty 23 points24 points  (1 child)

press 𝕏 to doubt*

ftfy

fun fact: because the new twitter logo is a common unicode character, it can not be trademarked or copyrighted.

[–]athedrummaster 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Time to launch my own *official clothing and merchandise line

*unofficial

[–]SpaceBoJangles 51 points52 points  (0 children)

https://youtube.com/@NASASpaceflight?si=J7d41LDiSDkTpw2N

Just sub to these guys. They’re awesome.

Tim Dodd the Everyday Astronaut too.

[–]PMmeFunstuff1 140 points141 points  (11 children)

Yeah, and just like that, I stopped watching SpaceX.

[–]Thunder_Wasp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I hardly ever used Twitter but under the Parag/Vijaya regime I had an account anyway mostly to lurk and occasionally respond. One day it got suspended with a blank justification/rule citation, my appeal to restore it was completely ignored, and I really have no interest in making a new account just to be told by its AI that I'm ban evading.

[–]PornstarVirgin -2 points-1 points  (8 children)

Time to swap to blue origin. They are ramping up

[–]Hustler-1 2 points3 points  (7 children)

They are?

[–]MaksweIlL 18 points19 points  (5 children)

Yeah, in a few decades, they will have a rocket that may reach the Earth's Orbit.

[–]garoo1234567 95 points96 points  (3 children)

Makes sense I guess. Elon owns it and everything. But I don't think I can watch it on my Roku. So for that reason alone I'm out. I'm not casting and jumping through hoops. My tv has YouTube already

[–]JtheNinja 38 points39 points  (2 children)

Basically no streaming device can watch twitter videos, except for casting it from a phone or using a web browser (if it even has one!) to load the twitter website.

Fun fact: this also applies to dash tablets in Teslas. They have a youtube app, but you have to open the fucking browser to watch twitter videos.

[–]ruler14222 5 points6 points  (1 child)

maybe complain to Musk that you tried to watch the launch from inside your Tesla and he's have to create some way for X videos to be viewed in another way

[–]work4bandwidth 155 points156 points  (27 children)

With some misses, I have watched nearly all 220+ launches and landings. I guess that stops now. Shame. It was a good streak.

[–]moww 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Sure, fewer people will watch it. But at least the view count will be orders of magnitude higher...

[–]joseph_joestar___ 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Tim dott/everyday astronaut, NasaSpaceFlight and labpadre: allow us to introduce ourselves

[–]themonkeymoo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That's certainly one way to drastically reduce viewership

It's clearly supposed to be intended to entice people to use the platform, but anyone who isn't using his social network now sure as heck isn't going to start using it just to see his rocket launches.

[–]gforce1616 39 points40 points  (1 child)

I never used Twitter and I'm not about to start now.

[–]EwokNuggets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What’s this Twitter you speak of? There’s only X! /s

[–]Temporary-Specific84 95 points96 points  (3 children)

Why would I go to that dumpster fire to watch the launch?

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yea, I’ll never view that inappropriate site.

[–]PommesMayo 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Billionaires gotta billionaire. NSF is going to get a hell of a lot more viewers now

[–]geuis 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is one of the dumbest things I've heard in a while. It's a shame Gwen Shotwell doesn't have the power to veto crap like this.

[–]FusselP0wner 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Oh well, never watching a launch from them again I suppose

[–]nick_shannon 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ah man i used to enjoy a good rocket launch on YouTube

[–]Sethmeisterg 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Then I'll never see them. Oh well. Fuck musk.

[–]cosmernaut420 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Where, soon, you'll only be able to watch them with an Ex-Twitter subscription. Whatever the fuck he rebrands those into.

[–]Necessary_Context780 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm glad, SpaceflightNow deserves gaining back the viewers the SpaceX stream stole from them. Those guys had the best coverage and broadcasg in the Space Shuttle era

[–]Goliathcraft 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why not just play it on both and let the free market decide which is better Mr. Musk?

[–]EvOrBust 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Aaaand I'l just watch any of the dozen restreams instead.

[–]Howdydobe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Okay, so I’ll watch them on YouTube when they get reposted.

[–]Diegobyte 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Might as well just cancel them all together. But maybe that’s coming in a couple months

[–]dtv20 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The bit rate of twitter will make these streams unwatchable.

[–]ramriot 19 points20 points  (2 children)

Surely they would want to use a reliable streaming service for that.

Last 3 times they have tried hosting large audience live streams their systems collapsed.

[–]PotatoesAndChill 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I watched the last SpaceX stream on X, and the quality was hovering between 360p and 480p, occasionally going up to 720p. That's besides the downsides like not being able to watch from a TV, or even from a tesla.

Massive downgrade and a big shame for SpaceX.

[–]peaktopview 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm guessing that after this move, they won't have to worry about large audience live stream with space x...

[–]So_spoke_the_wizard 23 points24 points  (2 children)

Welp, it was good while it lasted. I guess I can unsubscribe from SpaceX and watch clips on the fan channels

[–]kompergator 7 points8 points  (2 children)

And with that, millions fewer will see it.

Good job, Musk. Tanking one business and then using it to taint the next one.

[–]ProgressBartender 14 points15 points  (3 children)

I’ll be interested to see if this actually happens. X is such a dumpster fire at this point, I can’t see the board at SpaceX being okay with this. Plus Elon says a lot of things that end up not happening.

[–]pm_me_ur_ephemerides 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Have you ever looked up who sits on SpaceX’s board? Other than the guy from Google, I would not call that board independent. Most of them rubber stamp whatever Elon wants.

[–]frez1001 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Elon owns 80% of spacex… of course he can do what he wants..

[–]Lemuel-Pigeon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Guess I'm watching someone else broadcasting it on YouTube.

[–]Anx1etyD0g 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If only there were a site that hosted videos, with "X" directly in the URL...

[–]Elitist_Bagel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Aight, imma head out. Plenty of science and news outlets that will cover it instead

[–]archimedesrex 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, I'll just be watching NASA Space Flight or Everyday Astronaut for important launch feeds.

[–]acviper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

pretty lame , same as the name change to X . Nothing but Musk's own ego will lead to the downfall of these companies someday.

[–]scio2107 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s incredibly lame. I’m a customer of Spacex and I think the company is doing great things, but to move the launches to X exclusively (I’ve never had a Twitter or X account) is super disappointing.

I feel like the Elon of 5-10 years ago wouldn’t have pulled a move like this, even if he had owned X at the time. Perhaps I’m wrong, but I think less of him these days regardless.

[–]flerchin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dang, 4K on YouTube is way better for me than whatever it is that Twitter is serving. I pay for YouTube premium to avoid ads, dunno if the Twitter equivalent would be worth.

[–]beaded_lion59 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sounds like another adventure at FAFO camp. He might be disappointed at the results if he’s expecting droves of viewers.

[–]funkyvilla 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Such a stupid name. Elon you’re such a dumbass.

[–]awkwardpenguin20 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It'd be really nice if Elon had nothing to do with this shit anymore.

[–]readmond 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In the end I hope all rocket launches would be shown only in Teslas.

[–]Correct-Baseball5130 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bad move. Guess I'll have to rely on NSF from now on.

[–]killroystyx 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Seems like a pretty pathetic attempt to pump up twitter's visitor numbers to me.

If he was actually trying to support spacex media, he would have it streamed in multiple places at once to get pictures of those rockets in front of as many eyes as possible.

But his focus is on his floundering social media purchace, so instead forces his remaining loyal followers into supporting the failing arm of his empire.

He's been doing the same kind of thing to tesla by it as a piggybank iirc.

He isn't a smart businessman. Playing ponzi with your own money is stupid af, and in the social media world viewership is money

[–]Code2008 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Guess I just won't watch SpaceX launches then.

Fuck Twitter.

[–]l1thiumion 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Twitter is just “ok what are we mad at today?” social media

[–]Consensuseur 5 points6 points  (0 children)

and suddenly I care a lot less about SpaceX launches.

[–]Decronym 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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BFR Big Falcon Rocket (2018 rebiggened edition)
Yes, the F stands for something else; no, you're not the first to notice
FAA Federal Aviation Administration
HLS Human Landing System (Artemis)
ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
ISRO Indian Space Research Organisation
ITAR (US) International Traffic in Arms Regulations
Isp Specific impulse (as explained by Scott Manley on YouTube)
Internet Service Provider
LEO Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)
Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)
NSF NasaSpaceFlight forum
National Science Foundation
Jargon Definition
Starlink SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation

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[–]deathclawDC 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess i'll just tune into to our ISRO channel then

[–]Adventurous-Dealer15 1 point2 points  (0 children)

See, now it all makes sense. The naming, acquisition and most of it

[–]Mr_master89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If people can use his face to scam people on YouTube without them doing anything people can stream it to YouTube without them knowing

[–]TekRantGaming 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh amazing now i can watch this on my phone screen ...load of pish ill just watch someone recasting to youtube/twitch

[–]Doopoodoo 1 point2 points  (2 children)

What is even the point of this? Get slightly more people on X? I hate it when companies do random small things like this that don’t serve anyone except themselves

[–]Harry_the_space_man 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What’s funny is the average livestream viewers on Twitter is 16k, on the most recent launch, that again was solely streamed on Twitter, got 9k viewers at its peak. The reason is because people didn’t get a notification from YouTube that spaceX was live, so only a few people actually knew about it, and Twitter has shit reach.

[–]Harry_the_space_man 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All in all, one of the worst decisions in spaceXs history

[–]One-Vast-5227 1 point2 points  (0 children)

X is running low on revenue and they want to burn more money hosting long video streams. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[–]neverwhisper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Desperation

I just watch a different feed on YT

[–]Ellanasss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Guess i won't Watch them. I never downloaded Twitter and i never will

[–]EdmundGerber 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Link to the launch on YT - one of no doubt many people to re-post this, thankfully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPQB0kAFd5I

[–]EwokNuggets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There it is. I was wondering how long that would take

[–]OldWrangler9033 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Forcing people to use a increasingly compromised social media platform does not seem cool with me. I guess I'll have depend on the streamers posting the stuff on youtube and hope the jerks at SpaceX's upper media management don't try block them.

[–]ItsOnlyaFewBucks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bring everything under one big umbrella of ignorance. Makes it easier to sink everything all at once. Smear that taint across everything you own.

[–]cpe111 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Guess I won't be watching the official broadcast then.

[–]AndrekinKimawa 4 points5 points  (1 child)

As much as I want rockets to fly I want this guy fall. Used to be a part of Elon worshipping flock, woke after paedo diver comment, gazed in amazement how narcissistic, egotic, and childish one can be.

[–]BrassBass 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank god NASA still uses YouTube. To think I will witness people walk on another celestial body in my lifetime...

[–]duckforceone 3 points4 points  (0 children)

well guess i will just watch someone elses stream then...

[–]swords-and-boreds 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Wellp, guess I’m never watching any SpaceX launch again.

[–]Kanguin 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Eh I already stopped watching ever since Elon started showing his true colors

[–]snoosh00 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Well I guess I'm not watching them live anymore.

I'll wait for the repost on YouTube.

[–]terriaminute 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That was obviously the man-child's idea, no one else's, certainly not any publicity department's. Should be a fun reality check. Too bad he'll learn absolutely nothing from it, either.

[–]rubbarz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never really watched their stream anyways. Always watched other people's streams.

[–]TronGRID_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahhhh yes, the ol spotify Joe rogan deal so that I can’t watch on YouTube anymore

[–]Novaova 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll call Twitter "X" when Musk stops deadnaming his daughter, not before.

Also this move sucks. The video bitrate and such on Twitter is ass.

[–]Rexkat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Can watch 2 things crashing simultaneously. Neat.

[–]tu0mas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great so we're apparently switching from 4k streams to 480p, nice.

[–]Hadleys158 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No more official feeds for me then, hopefully the drop in viewer number makes them change their minds.

[–]Funktapus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really cool for SpaceX to do favors for a totally unrelated company owned by its CEO.

[–]Polyhymnia1958 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Musk is still an idiot, a really bad businessman, and the embodiment of what happens to spoiled brats when they come into a pile of money.

[–]commandrix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NASA has a YouTube channel where it livestreams launches and stuff. Just saying.

[–]positive_X 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This guy is making it difficult for me to stay positive about our shared moniker .
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[–]InfelicitousRedditor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

X videos has been my go-to for years, I welcome this change!

[–]razzraziel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This clearly shows that their goal is not the progression of humanity but rather company profits.

[–]lxdr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A reminder that Elon/X is already known for cooking viewcount numbers against their actual viewership numbers.

[–]AccomplishedDott 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm too busy working to even watch it live anyways.

[–]erlandodk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And just like that I stopped caring about SpaceX launches.

[–]Small_Cock_Jonny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure there will be enough restreamers

[–]raynorelyp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really don’t care, but isn’t this actually illegal? I was under the impression if you own two unrelated businesses and they give each other special favors, that’s considered anti-competitive or something

[–]Ezzy77 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Bye bye, SpaceX then. Not gonna support X in any way. Sad state of affairs. Another decision he'll reverse in a couple of days as the petulant child he is.

[–]ImHiiiiiiiiit -2 points-1 points  (13 children)

Honest question -- why does anyone care about what video service hosts the streams?

[–]Codydw12 30 points31 points  (1 child)

You don't try cooking a turkey in a toaster. Trying to livestream a highly produced rocket launch on a social media platform not designed to host livestreamed videos is like that turkey in a toaster.

[–]Shrike99 49 points50 points  (2 children)

Because they streamed in 4k on youtube, while their twitter livestreams appear to be ~360p.

[–]ergzay 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They're actually in 1080p, but they use dynamic bitrate/resolution scaling which tends to be bad so you don't get it in 1080p usually.

You can use external tools to get a fixed 1080p stream, but it's a bit tricky.

But yeah, no 4k. Also the bitrate for their 1080p is worse than Youtube's 1080p bitrate.

[–]Dawg_in_NWA 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Because one is suited for and designed to host video events, the other is not.

[–]nazihater3000 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Because Twitter video sucks.