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My objection to the first argument is that I don't think YouTube adds a lot of value to my life; it's the individual contributors who do. These creators are on
by jetrink 3y ago
My objection to the first argument is that I don't think YouTube adds a lot of value to my life; it's the individual contributors who do. These creators are on YouTube because that's where the audience is and vice versa. I have a lot of problems with Google's stewardship of this dominant position and I don't want to do anything to perpetuate it. The creators who do add significant value to my life I support directly through Patreon and/or through watching them on Nebula, which is a paid video service.
- Ographer 3y agoPart of YouTube premium dues go directly to the creators whose videos you watch. My understanding is that creators earn more from a premium subscriber view than from a free user with ads. Patreon is much more helpful and we don't know how much of a membership goes to creators. Nebula seems great but doesn't allow for free access to education for all of it is a paid service so that seems like a worse way to gatekeep information than ads alone.