You want regulations on ads for a free service?
The entitlement is wild.
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Nima@leminal.space 3 months ago
i absolutely despise youtube. these fuckers are putting ads on paused videos now, and then this.
they will never get better. only worse. we need regulations badly.
You want regulations on ads for a free service?
The entitlement is wild.
Free or not, monopolies should be regulated.
Do you pay for nebula?
Yes, and ads should be regulated regardless of whether the service is free or not. Same way you can’t put outright porn on a highway billboard.
They’re a monopoly that relies on users to produce content. You see, in a functional capitalist system, when one supplier deliberately hinders competition through unfair trade practices, they are made to change their methods in order to foster competition.
When that system is corrupted and fails to act in a timely manner, all bets are off.
You know where else you can go to find the billions of videos users have uploaded? No. How did it get that way? Just, luck? No.
Yes, we want regulations on ads in YouTube, and it’s an ignorant and arrogant position to call that “entitled”.
You’ll never get upvotes for telling people this reality, but you are of course completely correct.
If only we saw as much enthusiasm for voting generally as we see for taking ads off YT. Maybe we’d actually get a government that was willing to regulate titans.
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
We need a competitor badly.
RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Peertube/Odysee exist, even if they are relatively niche.
hostops@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Competitor with no content, users is not a competitor. Youtube should be forced to share content they do not own. Just for the sake of competition.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
The content isn’t the problem. It’s the delivery system. No one else has the storage and network capacity that Youtube has. And as a result of that, no one else has the built-in audience Youtube has. Putting your videos on YT is simply the best way to get views.
i_have_no_enemies@lemmy.world 3 months ago
rumble is pretty good
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
fuck off out of here with your nazi platforms
RedStrider@lemmy.world 3 months ago
i’d like to move to peertube, but i mostly just post stupid memes, and game clips on my youtube channel, and as generic as that is i don’t really know what instance to go with.
scarabic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Paying Nebula subscriber here 🙋♂️
Pony up or your call for a competitor doesn’t mean anything. People don’t want ads? Fine. There has to be another revenue stream.
bilb@lem.monster 3 months ago
Then isn’t the obvious move to just pay for youtube?
scarabic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I also do that. But Nebula is more thoroughly creator friendly. 50% of net profits go to creators and are divided by their share of watch time. That is a far more creator friendly policy than YT having a closed ad algorithm and you just get what you get. The YT display algorithm is also famously opaque and has some bullshit nanny filters on it such that you can’t actually make a faithful video about something like a historical massacre without being demonetized and hurting your channel in the algo.
There’s a lot I like about YT and being a premium subscriber does benefit creators there but I think Nebula is a next step in that evolution and it’s off to a decent start.
I pay for both.
TheLastOfHisName@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Absolutely this. I pay for both my Proton and Notesnook accounts. No ads, no trafficing my data, and services I like and believe in.
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
I do pony up for other services (not YT Premium because I won’t give Google any money) and support a significant number of creators via Patreon, giving them more money by far than they’d ever see from me from ads. And I’ve spent thousands of hours on my own dime making written content and giving it away for nothing with no ads or tracking. So yes, I agree.
scarabic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Can you say more about the written content part? I’m not sure I understood. Are you giving YT creators scripts for videos?
silasmariner@programming.dev 3 months ago
Whatever happened to dailymotion?
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Does anyone really post anything to Dailymotion besides blatantly unauthorized TV stuff? I can’t imagine it’d be very good vibes for anyone trying to make an honest living with original content over there.
obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 3 months ago
Dailymotion does not allow for commenting anymore. That’s why I stopped using it.
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
iirc they tried to become a tiktok clone, no idea how it went but considering i never see anyone talk about it i doubt it went very well
Cistello@reddthat.com 3 months ago
I used it a bit because its also on Grayjay but its pretty terrible and focuses a lot on big media than individual people