Then isn’t the obvious move to just pay for youtube?
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scarabic@lemmy.world 5 days agoPaying 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 5 days ago
scarabic@lemmy.world 4 days 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 4 days 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 1 day 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 11 hours ago
Can you say more about the written content part? I’m not sure I understood. Are you giving YT creators scripts for videos?