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You read these posts about people hating youtube, hating ads, over my dead body will I pay for premium. The same people talking about how their needs to be a co
by Workaccount2 3y ago
You read these posts about people hating youtube, hating ads, over my dead body will I pay for premium. The same people talking about how their needs to be a competitor in the space.
It is completely lost on them that maybe the reason there is no competition is because nobody wants to watch ads or pay for premium.
The barber stopped giving free haircuts and now people are pissed that nobody wants to open up a "competing" free-haircut barber shop.
- goalonetwo 3y agoA lot of people would be happy to support a 3rd party video platform. I know I would. I paid for Vimeo for years. The sad truth is that there are not enough people that would. But I cannot and refuse to pay Google, especially youtube given their stance on censorship.
- Workaccount2 3y agoVid.me did exactly what everyone who cries about youtube wanted. It even got really popular. Then it went bankrupt because what everyone actually wants above all else is a totally cost-free/ad-free platform.
- goalonetwo 3y agoThe issue is always that creators themselves don't upload their videos to those 3rd parties. That forces you to come back to Youtube one way or another. As for a lot of things there is a big network effect at play here.
- Workaccount2 3y agoVid.me actually got a lot of traction. It was drawing many youtubers over too, who were dual posting for a while. But how can you expect creators to move to a platform that cannot provide compensation?
- hotnfresh 3y agoDiscovery/curation, monetization, and hosting all being separate would do a lot of good.