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I don’t agree. It’s an important thing, not the important thing. This is a great alternative to sharing large video files with others by having someone else j

I don’t agree. It’s an important thing, not the important thing. This is a great alternative to sharing large video files with others by having someone else just watch what they want of it, if you want to ensure it’s more permanent than- let’s say- Google Music. If the fear is that an evil Google competitor will come along that will do more damage- this wouldn’t enable that. That would take a serious amount of funding and technology, not a free clone of YouTube without all of the infrastructural backing.

judge2020 6y ago
That's kind of an issue then - YouTube is only partly (probably a single-digit-percent given they dropped the direct share feature[0]) about sharing videos with friends - most people stick around for the recommendations, ie. the endless stream of interesting/intriguing/funny content. Most of that content currently dominating YT (at least, at the quantity that it's produced) is only possible due to these creators making YouTube their full-time job and getting paid to do it. Linus Tech Tips (which also runs Techquickie and Techlinked) attributes 26% of their total revenue to YT Ads[1], and the other categories (like merchandise/affiliate links) aren't something everyone can do if their videos aren't about products available on Amazon or can't grow their merch at the rate LTT does. If PT is just about sharing videos, then you might as well run a nextcloud instance instead since 'no ads' is a huge downside to PT for creators. 0: https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/21/youtube-is-closing-its-private-messages-feature-and-many-kids-are-outraged/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/21/youtube-is-closing-its-pri... 1: https://youtu.be/-zt57TWkTF4?t=395 https://youtu.be/-zt57TWkTF4?t=395
- BlueTemplar 6y ago
  You're forgetting about donations / patronage, which everyone can do and I'm willing to bet has been growing in share for the past years.
- BlueTemplar 6y ago
  I'm pretty sure that one of the main reasons that YouTube 'won' is that it was easy to just share these videos with friends/family, and also straightforward to enable/disable public sharing of them. I've never even heard of that 'direct share' feature, but have used the private and unreferenced settings on my videos many times over the years.

judge2020 6y ago

That's kind of an issue then - YouTube is only partly (probably a single-digit-percent given they dropped the direct share feature[0]) about sharing videos with friends - most people stick around for the recommendations, ie. the endless stream of interesting/intriguing/funny content. Most of that content currently dominating YT (at least, at the quantity that it's produced) is only possible due to these creators making YouTube their full-time job and getting paid to do it. Linus Tech Tips (which also runs Techquickie and Techlinked) attributes 26% of their total revenue to YT Ads[1], and the other categories (like merchandise/affiliate links) aren't something everyone can do if their videos aren't about products available on Amazon or can't grow their merch at the rate LTT does. If PT is just about sharing videos, then you might as well run a nextcloud instance instead since 'no ads' is a huge downside to PT for creators. 0: https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/21/youtube-is-closing-its-private-messages-feature-and-many-kids-are-outraged/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/21/youtube-is-closing-its-pri... 1: https://youtu.be/-zt57TWkTF4?t=395 https://youtu.be/-zt57TWkTF4?t=395

BlueTemplar 6y ago
You're forgetting about donations / patronage, which everyone can do and I'm willing to bet has been growing in share for the past years.
BlueTemplar 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that one of the main reasons that YouTube 'won' is that it was easy to just share these videos with friends/family, and also straightforward to enable/disable public sharing of them. I've never even heard of that 'direct share' feature, but have used the private and unreferenced settings on my videos many times over the years.