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You're technically correct, but that's not really relevant. 0 < 1 < 780,000 for sure, but that's also the difference between making a living and not. YouTube,

by wlll 6y ago

You're technically correct, but that's not really relevant. 0 < 1 < 780,000 for sure, but that's also the difference between making a living and not. YouTube, like it or not, is the engine that drives many people's content business (the creators), and if the engine is denied to them, there really isn't a realistic alternative.

bsder 6y ago
You either overthrow The King, or you depend on his largesse and submit to his whims. "We don't care. We don't have to. We're Google." https://vimeo.com/355556831 https://vimeo.com/355556831
- wlll 6y ago
  What does "overthrow the king" look like when the alternatives are uploading your videos to other sites and getting a handful of views? It's like the alternative really is "depend on his largesse and submit to his whims beacuse you can't overthrow the king because he is too powerful". Like it or not YouTube is in an extremely solid position that is unlikely to be shifted by anyone at this point.
  - dvtrn 6y ago
    What does "overthrow the king" look like I often hear the “host your own content” but I don’t feel like there is an equally vocal “make it discoverable, too” crowd. That is until I discovered the indieweb. The indieweb’s usage of microformats and features like “webmentions” that can be crawled ad hoc, enabling decentralized, federated discovery (example: http://indieweb.xyz http://indieweb.xyz) is the web that-IMO-we should have gotten. Not one dominated by corporatized, professionalized platforms
  - bsder 6y ago
    > What does "overthrow the king" look like when the alternatives are uploading your videos to other sites and getting a handful of views? Twitch somehow seems to do a pretty good job of competing with YouTube. If you move and only get a handful of views, do you really have a channel? If you can't take your viewers somewhere else, do you actually have viewers or are you simply one of the interchangeable nobodies that YouTube uses to keep YouTube viewers engaged? I'm reminded of the "influencer" who couldn't sell 10 t-shirts to her "thousands" of viewers.

by wlll 6y ago

bsder 6y ago

You either overthrow The King, or you depend on his largesse and submit to his whims. "We don't care. We don't have to. We're Google." https://vimeo.com/355556831 https://vimeo.com/355556831

wlll 6y ago
What does "overthrow the king" look like when the alternatives are uploading your videos to other sites and getting a handful of views? It's like the alternative really is "depend on his largesse and submit to his whims beacuse you can't overthrow the king because he is too powerful". Like it or not YouTube is in an extremely solid position that is unlikely to be shifted by anyone at this point.
- dvtrn 6y ago
  What does "overthrow the king" look like I often hear the “host your own content” but I don’t feel like there is an equally vocal “make it discoverable, too” crowd. That is until I discovered the indieweb. The indieweb’s usage of microformats and features like “webmentions” that can be crawled ad hoc, enabling decentralized, federated discovery (example: http://indieweb.xyz http://indieweb.xyz) is the web that-IMO-we should have gotten. Not one dominated by corporatized, professionalized platforms
- bsder 6y ago
  > What does "overthrow the king" look like when the alternatives are uploading your videos to other sites and getting a handful of views? Twitch somehow seems to do a pretty good job of competing with YouTube. If you move and only get a handful of views, do you really have a channel? If you can't take your viewers somewhere else, do you actually have viewers or are you simply one of the interchangeable nobodies that YouTube uses to keep YouTube viewers engaged? I'm reminded of the "influencer" who couldn't sell 10 t-shirts to her "thousands" of viewers.