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Is there any competing service that has a model similar to YouTube? I know there's Facebook video, but AFAIK you need a Facebook account to view the videos, whi
by snek_case 5y ago
Is there any competing service that has a model similar to YouTube? I know there's Facebook video, but AFAIK you need a Facebook account to view the videos, which stops a lot of traffic and makes the platform not searchable from Google.
- munk-a 5y agoFacebook also publishes famously misleading engagement metrics to producers. It's lead to a lot of business issues where content creators have gone too heavy into the platform and ended up running out of revenue.
- Ir0nMan 5y ago>Is there any competing service that has a model similar to YouTube? No.
- smaryjerry 5y agoRumble is making some big waves right now, actually paying uploaders for ads run on their videos and such. It’s still a small fraction of YouTube in terms of viewership though.
- bitwize 5y agoIt's also a den of right-wing disinformation and propaganda. Not something the average content creator wants to be associated with
- bmarquez 5y agoYou might be thinking of BitChute or Brighteon (which literally has QAnon on the front page). The right-wingers on Rumble are fairly mainstream (and monetizable), like Stephen Crowder, Ben Shapiro, or Donald Trump himself.
- arrow7000 5y agoI can't tell if this is a joke reply or not
- lucaspm98 5y agoWhat about the parent comment would indicate a joke?
- Applejinx 5y agoNone of the people mentioned are mainstream.
- Bayart 5y agoI don't know this Crowder person, but Shapiro and Trump are absolutely mainstream. Enough that I, a guy who's not from the US and has no interest in its domestic politics, can get Shapiro memes.
- nitrogen 5y agoRegardless of one's opinion of him, it's pretty hard to say that a former president of the United States is outside the mainstream.
- spiderice 5y agoAnd Ben Shapiro's podcast is currently the 7th most downloaded podcast in the US[1]. That also qualifies as pretty mainstream. [1] https://www.podcastinsights.com/top-us-podcasts/ https://www.podcastinsights.com/top-us-podcasts/
- Applejinx 5y agoTheir positions are not mainstream. His positions are not mainstream.
- nindalf 5y agoI can say plenty of negative things about all of those people, including the disingenuous ways all of them argue their points. But all mainstream means is that they have a large audience. Which all of them do.
- godmode2019 5y agoThat's the tactic, if you ban a group of people from your platform. They search for a competitor, then they can say oh that competitor is full of XYZ undesirable people, you don't want to use them. YouTube itself use to be the fringe. https://odysee.com/ https://odysee.com/ is a site I have seen a lot of mainstream people promote. The problem is actually discovery, it doesn't really matter who sends you bytes it's about users discovering your content, which YouTube has the monopoly.
- bradknowles 5y agoA lot of Twitch and YouTube personalities I know of are moving over to Nebula and partnering with CuriosityStream.
- rtkwe 5y agoI wonder if that will make enough money to be successful or if it’s just going to keep burning VC cash to attract creators like Uber does.
- harshitaneja 5y agoNebula is content creator and Standard owned company with minority stake of CuriosityStream and no VC funding as far as I know.
- rtkwe 5y agoAh that’s encouraging.