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A few of the YouTubers I follow are desperately trying to move their fan base off of YT, just to make themselves more immune to the capricious whims of YT (one
by ashtonkem 6y ago
A few of the YouTubers I follow are desperately trying to move their fan base off of YT, just to make themselves more immune to the capricious whims of YT (one of them got banned temporarily for “impersonating” themselves). It’s kind of fascinating seeing podcasters give up the kind of freedom that YT producers would kill for.
- friendlybus 6y agoThey've been doing that since at least 2014. Pewdiepie joked at several points he may aswell be a hat company because that (at the time) was the majority of his income.
- RMPR 6y agoI think Peertube is the way to go, especially after this https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-05-15-peertube-bootstrap-fund/ https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-05-15-peertube-bootstrap-fun..., if only someone could drag content producers to choose freedom instead of walled gardens...
- ashtonkem 6y agoYou make it sound like YouTubers want walled gardens, which is kind of countermanded by the constant complaints YouTubers have about YouTube. I think that YouTubers think they’re stuck with the walled garden more than anything else. The problem for YouTubers is that their fans are on YouTube, and moving fans from one platform to another is really, really hard. I’ve also been rather negative on the viability of distributed social media sites, because they’re really hard to explain to non-nerds. Even as someone who understands the theory and goals, dealing with picking an instance and navigating the differences is a hurdle I’m not really interesting in dealing with.