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Moving creators might be easier than you think, it only take a few mess ups on the YouTube side to trigger it. There is no real community on YouTube, you're th
by nirui 3y ago
Moving creators might be easier than you think, it only take a few mess ups on the YouTube side to trigger it.
There is no real community on YouTube, you're there to watch videos, not making friends. And video hosting is flexible, one video can be hosted on different places.
Sure, YouTube was very smart that they changed how the home page worked, so now people rely on YouTube to explore and discover video for them, BUT it won't change the fact that you're still there to watch videos.
Now I through about it, maybe that's why YouTube is so careful about their public relationships.
- kevincox 3y agoYouTube recommendations are a huge source of traffic for creators. Even if they could move all of their subscribers to another platform they would be losing a ton of traffic (and therefore ad revenue). I think this discovery is the biggest difficulty in making a YouTube competitor.
- nirui 3y agoDiscovery has different modes, plus, it's not something only YouTube can have. That's to say, it would work for YouTube, but only to a point. Plus, the recommendations engine itself is a limitation. I been using YouTube for years before knowing the existence of YouTubers such as Casey Neistat, Mr Beast and SomeOrdinaryGamers. Even through they are popular and talked the topic that I'm interested in, YouTube never pushed them to me, instead, I manually discovered them through the trending page, what an irony.