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> Facebook, Google, Twitter, Medium, and YouTube entice us to give them our creative work. It's time to take it back ... Stop giving away your work to people wh

> Facebook, Google, Twitter, Medium, and YouTube entice us to give them our creative work. It's time to take it back ... Stop giving away your work to people who don't care about it. Host it yourself. So, youtube, right? Where would you host your videos if you had a mind to take them back?

dibujante 4y ago
I would simply spend millions of dollars serving my own viral videos.
- getcrunk 4y ago
  Well. I'd wager you can server your 1 viral video for max a few grand a month.
  - TranquilMarmot 4y ago
    Paid for by all the Google ads you run or money from Patreon haha
- bin_bash 4y ago
  paid for with what, patreon?
aqme28 4y ago
> Google Yeah, stop letting Google dictate your search results! Create your own search engine and own your platform!
- yellowapple 4y ago
  Ain't sure if you know this, but in case you don't, Google is a lot more than just a search engine nowadays.
  - deleted 4y ago
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vorpalhex 4y ago
Peertube for one. Even if you want to use Youtube, Floatplane or others to expose your content you can still pull users back to your site and own the creator - user relationship.
hammock 4y ago
YouTube can be used as a host yet not as a platform. Make all your videos unlisted and just use video player on your website.
- azangru 4y ago
  But that’s not owning your platform. What if youtube decides that your video is in violation of some community guidelines and deletes it?
  - enos_feedler 4y ago
    You can fix that by having backups and hosting elsewhere. The difference is using a service's infrastructure vs. using a platform's reach.
  - blibble 4y ago
    sign up again?
  - stevenjgarner 4y ago
    If you own the page where they are embedded, YOU own the content. Your YouTube goes away, you can place the video elsewhere (or even back on another YouTube channel) and update your embedding to point to the new location. You still own the page and any comments and/or monetization you might have established.
- stevenjgarner 4y ago
  Agreed if you make them all unlisted AND: 1) set the iframe width="514" height="289" or smaller that will remove the "Watch on YouTube" link (viewers can still view in fullscreen) 2) add ?modestbranding=1 to the end of the src url, this will also remove the "YouTube" link Then add your own comments system to your embedded page and monetize how you see fit.
codedokode 4y ago
Youtube has not much value as a video hosting. You can host your video anywhere else easily. Youtube's value is viewers that will accidentally discover your video. Nobody will watch your videos if you publish them at your own website.
- imperio59 4y ago
  Sorry but have you tried hosting your own video? There's only really one set of codecs that works across all devices. Video Player libraries that work really well with features like captions/subtitles, speed controls, automatic resolution shifting are hard to find, much less if you are not technical. If you want to cater to an audience outside the western world you'll want a video processing pipeline to downscale your videos to lower resolutions. Ideally you'd want to chunk up the video into something like HLS playlists so navigating around the video wouldn't require someone to wait until the download caught up to the middle of the file... the list goes on. Video is still hard. The big players make it seem easy, but it's not, in my experience, that simple.

dibujante 4y ago

I would simply spend millions of dollars serving my own viral videos.

getcrunk 4y ago
Well. I'd wager you can server your 1 viral video for max a few grand a month.
- TranquilMarmot 4y ago
  Paid for by all the Google ads you run or money from Patreon haha
bin_bash 4y ago
paid for with what, patreon?

aqme28 4y ago

> Google Yeah, stop letting Google dictate your search results! Create your own search engine and own your platform!

yellowapple 4y ago
Ain't sure if you know this, but in case you don't, Google is a lot more than just a search engine nowadays.
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]

vorpalhex 4y ago

Peertube for one. Even if you want to use Youtube, Floatplane or others to expose your content you can still pull users back to your site and own the creator - user relationship.

hammock 4y ago

YouTube can be used as a host yet not as a platform. Make all your videos unlisted and just use video player on your website.

azangru 4y ago
But that’s not owning your platform. What if youtube decides that your video is in violation of some community guidelines and deletes it?
- enos_feedler 4y ago
  You can fix that by having backups and hosting elsewhere. The difference is using a service's infrastructure vs. using a platform's reach.
- blibble 4y ago
  sign up again?
- stevenjgarner 4y ago
  If you own the page where they are embedded, YOU own the content. Your YouTube goes away, you can place the video elsewhere (or even back on another YouTube channel) and update your embedding to point to the new location. You still own the page and any comments and/or monetization you might have established.
stevenjgarner 4y ago
Agreed if you make them all unlisted AND: 1) set the iframe width="514" height="289" or smaller that will remove the "Watch on YouTube" link (viewers can still view in fullscreen) 2) add ?modestbranding=1 to the end of the src url, this will also remove the "YouTube" link Then add your own comments system to your embedded page and monetize how you see fit.

codedokode 4y ago

Youtube has not much value as a video hosting. You can host your video anywhere else easily. Youtube's value is viewers that will accidentally discover your video. Nobody will watch your videos if you publish them at your own website.

imperio59 4y ago
Sorry but have you tried hosting your own video? There's only really one set of codecs that works across all devices. Video Player libraries that work really well with features like captions/subtitles, speed controls, automatic resolution shifting are hard to find, much less if you are not technical. If you want to cater to an audience outside the western world you'll want a video processing pipeline to downscale your videos to lower resolutions. Ideally you'd want to chunk up the video into something like HLS playlists so navigating around the video wouldn't require someone to wait until the download caught up to the middle of the file... the list goes on. Video is still hard. The big players make it seem easy, but it's not, in my experience, that simple.