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by CM30 3y ago
Given the users own the content, it'd presumably be up to them whether it can be rehosted or not. Reddit gets a license to display the content, but they don't really have any control over what third parties can do with it. Persona
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by CM30 3y ago
Yeah, earning money for posting on a service like this sounds good at first, but it's often a magnet for folks that don't really care about contributing to the platform beyond that. These usually fall into 2 categories: 1. Hustler
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by CM30 3y ago
As always, it depends. Sometimes the design misses the point of the original site and makes it harder to use for the folks already there. These tend to go over badly, since people would often rather leave than learn something completely new
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by CM30 3y ago
I do post shorts, and some of them have done pretty well. However, the number of views needed to make serious money with those is insane even compared to normal videos, and it's a completely different audience to the rest of the site.
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by CM30 3y ago
Considered it, but I think I'd get even more burnt out if I had to rely on YouTube to survive and making videos every day was an absolute necessity.
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by CM30 3y ago
Yes I've made some money, though it's not exactly a ton (a few hundred quid every few weeks). Unfortunately, I kinda screwed up a few times, and forgot to monetise popular videos until way later than I should have. Like that video
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by CM30 3y ago
Try to stick to a schedule. That's something I've personally struggled with a lot, and it's something that the more successful channels I follow have usually done better with. People like to know when new uploads will be post
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by CM30 3y ago
This is a really interesting article, and one that quite a few creators I know can agree with. It's especially common to end up in this situation on sites like YouTube, since it's far easier to build a successful channel based on
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by CM30 3y ago
Not really. My interests are in areas that a ChatGPT answer isn't really all that useful in, namely discoveries in the subject areas I'm interested in. When it comes to strats for video game speedruns or mod updates, these languag
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by CM30 3y ago
Well, it's rather inaccessible/unappealing to the majority of people who use sites like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc, so that probably has something to do with it. There's a pretty strong correlation between 'folks wil
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by CM30 3y ago
That feels less like a techie discourse thing and more of an enthusiast/expert discourse one. Put a bunch of experts together and ask them to discuss their field, and you'll get some great discussions. Put the same people together
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by CM30 3y ago
I wouldn't say it's all bad on the Tour front, the recent city tracks ported from there to 8 Deluxe are much better now (like Amsterdam, Bangkok and Singapore), and the original tracks made for Tour have been excellent additions f
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by CM30 3y ago
I'd definitely say it's something closer to Discord than Reddit or the likes. Because it feels like people want to be in mostly self contained communities with those that share their own values and interests, and where outsiders l
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by CM30 3y ago
Yeah, it's not all about permanent disabilities, it's also about temporary and situational ones (like say, having your hands full due to work, or being in an area which isn't well lit and needing better contrast).
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by CM30 3y ago
> * Outside of the HN crowd, I don't think the average consumer thinks of privacy as a differentiator. It's like trying to sell a service based on it being decentralised or a social media service on free speech. It's a nic
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by CM30 3y ago
Yeah, I feel like this as well, at least to a degree. With a new blank project, you have to design, structure and setup everything from scratch, which can feel extremely overwhelming. It's one of the reasons I haven't finished an
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by CM30 3y ago
> Of course, that's because there are only a relative handful of people on it today. This is the key point here. Every social media service and community is friendly when it's new, there aren't many people using it and (es
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by CM30 3y ago
Yeah this is true. Adsense is a very difficult way to make money on YouTube, and it's stuff like sponsorships, selling merch, selling courses, Patreon, etc that usually keep a lot of creators afloat. If you can get those working for yo
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by CM30 3y ago
They do, but you need a large following and a decent amount of money for this to be affordable in the first place. I paid someone I know to edit some of my videos for a while, and even at a fairly low price, I would end up spending as much
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by CM30 3y ago
As someone who's posted videos for about 10 years, and posted them seriously since 2017, the best period I ever had gave me about £1,500 for a couple of months worth of videos. Usually it's closer to £250 a month or something. Thi
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by CM30 3y ago
No, I wouldn't pay for it. And there are multiple reasons for that: 1. Social media services don't bring enough value to be worth paying for, since it's unlikely most others will do the same. So if I pay for your social netwo
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by CM30 3y ago
I wonder how many issues would be fixed if it was explicitly made legal to break copy protection in all cases? Honestly, it'd be nice if at least one rich person/large company/group of tech companies just flat out campaigned
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by CM30 3y ago
This. Proper investigative journalism is the only kind of reporting you can't just replace with an LLM/AI, and your only differentiator in an internet filled with copy and paste stories. Any outlet that neglects it for the usual o
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by CM30 4y ago
Corollary 2.5: Constantly changing requirements Nothing like a mid project design overhaul to send a codebase crumbling to the ground.
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by CM30 4y ago
> I don't agree with the logic that we cannot focus on two things at the same time This times a million. I see it all the time on social media when it comes to news stories too, and it's as ridiculous there as it is here. Peopl
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by CM30 4y ago
A couple of thoughts here: 1. I wonder how much of this is also driven by 'cancel culture', invasive media coverage, etc? After seeing stuff like how Scott Alexander's life got upended a bit after the New York Times covered S
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by CM30 4y ago
It comes from YouTube wanting to compete with TikTok, yes. And it's become so ridiculously common on YouTube because the platform pushes the hell out of shorts compared to normal videos; as a creator, I can get 10/100/1000 ti
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by CM30 4y ago
What's the conversion rate though? How many of those people continue to read the emails sent out by said site? Feels like you'd get a lot of dead subscribers and opt outs (and spam reports), not an active community or follower bas
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by CM30 4y ago
Yeah, continuing to use a product you hate and complaining about it is not going to bring the types of changes you want.
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by CM30 4y ago
Eh, I wouldn't agree with this. As much as it comes up a lot on Hacker News, it's not always as easy as 'build it and they'll come'. Many mediocre products and services have won out over good ones due to decent mark

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