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I would have paid for YT but they have demonstrated that they will shit all over independent creators, and smear them to justify it, while at the same time prio
by proc0 5y ago
I would have paid for YT but they have demonstrated that they will shit all over independent creators, and smear them to justify it, while at the same time prioritizing the mainstream garbage I was trying to avoid by going there.
It is suffering from the problem of social media at large: to be a platform or a curator of content? Moderation is tough and largely unsolved, I get that, but it started as a platform and then it flipped over to heavily curating, effectively abusing their influence they built with the help of little channels.
Independent creators are the future of media (not just social) in my opinion, and I feel YT has betrayed them by constantly siding with mainstream legacy media, and doing so in a sneaky way... they pretended to be fair and after huge global success they flipped and have no problem manipulating the attention of the masses.
- redwall_hp 5y agoThe ideal future is Peertube or simply chucking video files on Cloudfront and slapping the standard HTML5 video tags onto a web page. Creators of videos should one their own web presence, letting the internet be distributed as intended instead of siloing large swathes of content in the hands of a few large companies. If you’re producing videos as a business, depending on a third party to provide a free service, you’re going to have issues sooner or later.
- dahfizz 5y ago> Creators of videos should one their own web presence. The problem is that nobody wants to pay for it. They want to own their own web presence but on free servers.
- Scoundreller 5y agoWhile you might not own peertube, you control your content on your channel. And I’m happy to share in the hosting that way. Bandwidth and spectrum aren’t like oil. If we don’t use it, it’s lost forever. Worked for how we consumed internet video before Netflix/youtube: Torrents.
- SpelingBeeChamp 5y agoThat is not true. I create content for YouTube as my all the time job (and the jobs of my employees). I have no issue with self-hosting. The problem is that YouTube has the audience. For channels that receive a lot of traffic, only ~15% or of our watch time comes from subscribers. And even less comes from notifications.
- zackees 5y agoPeer tube had hidden scalability limits that they don’t advertise but you get to discover once you try and implement their service.
- Hyolobrika 5y agoCloudfront is a large corporate silo though.
- makomk 5y agoYup. For context, YouTube/Google pulled off an utterly scummy one-two punch where they initially upped the minimum requirements to monetize videos with ads and removed that ability from anyone who didn't meet the new requirements, under the pretext that they couldn't check if smaller channels were suitable for advertising - and then readded ads to all those channels except with Google keeping 100% of the money.
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