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You can cross upload your content, right? Just upload it to all platforms. Sure noone will watch from there but if enough people start doing it, viewers will fo
by tobyhinloopen 6y ago
You can cross upload your content, right? Just upload it to all platforms. Sure noone will watch from there but if enough people start doing it, viewers will follow. At some point it must be worth it to set an example for your colleague creators.
It just needs a start
- edbob 6y agoThis is impractical due to YouTube's algorithm. If y people watch your content on alternative sites that would otherwise have watched on YouTube, this reduces the algorithm's score and could result in x : (x > y) less views on YouTube due to reduced placement. It's probably not a problem at small numbers of views, but if you actually started getting significant views on alt sites, you would be heavily incentivized to pull your content back to YouTube exclusively. The network effects are just too strong. Even if a few very devoted creators stick to using alt sites at personal cost, 99% of creators will remain exclusively on YouTube and the alt sites will not be able to compete on content. TLDR: A few people may do it, but it won't scale.