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I say this every time the topic comes up, and I’m always downvoted for it but here goes again:

YouTube is going to do this suit because YouTube CAN do this shit. It’s their company. They can enshitify it as much as they’d like. And they WILL enshitify it as much as they like as long as people continue to use it.

How long have they been in existence now? 18-19 years? And with every year they gets worse and worse, while growing bigger and bigger. Why do you think that is?

Could it be because they know that although everyone will bitch about them, complain about them, and write scathing tech articles about them- people will still gobble their shit up regardless.

Don’t like what YouTube is doing? Maybe think about not using it. Because as long as you’re participating- either by creating content or viewing it- you are a big part of the reason they’re getting away with doing this shit.

Downvote away.

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superminerJG@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Let’s just say, unless YouTube crosses people’s bottom lines and there’s an alternative being actively advertised, people won’t move.

Otherwise, they push that bottom line further.

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- kalleboo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  The lack of alternatives where creators actually get paid for people watching their videos is the biggest problem.
  
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  - FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Even youtube doesn’t pay the creators that much. Lois Rossman in a recent video showed some of his video in YT that had > 200k views generated ~100 $ of income.
    
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    FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    On a related note. Why would creators add sponsored segments/other sponsoring/patreon etc if YT pays them enough?
    
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    YT doesn’t pay them enough. Unless your some kind of super star.
    
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    kalleboo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    And that’s probably what will kill them as payouts get worse and worse making other platforms more attractive as you’re not losing as much. A lot of YouTubers I follow seem to becoming more and more reliant on Patreon as ad revenue goes down.
    
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  - FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Nebula pays creator, and you pay to Nebula.
    
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    Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I have nebula, but still pay also for YT subscriptions
    
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- Rhoeri@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Agreed. Seems there no floor to what people will put up with from them. I can’t understand it. I’ve tried products and services I found that I absolutely hated. I don’t have those products or services anymore.
  
  It’s pretty easy to not do something.
  
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Vinstaal0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Youtube started when hosting video’s was way easier. The files where smaller, the bandwidth of most people wasn’t that great either. Storage was more expensive though.

These days everybody wants 4K footage and everybody was 100-1000+ mbps internet and we have 4K screens so we can also watch it.

The competitors who host it are either paid up front or porn sites. Because there is no real way to start up a competitor to YouTube. I decided to accept that and I have RSSfeeds of all the creators I like to watch so I bypass the algorithm

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nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
They get away with it because they don’t have serious competition and the reason for that is that allowing anyone to upload videos for free, to be viewed by anyone else for free, is by itself not a viable business model.

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- ribboo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It’s the size really. As with most social media platforms, often they are fairly easy to create (YouTube definitely isn’t, but many could). Problem is that it’s impossible to compete with, because people expect the activity you get from hundreds of millions of users.
  
  Same goes for Twitter, Reddit and whatnot. Since capitalism took over the internet completely, basically none of the large plattforms have been outcompeted really.
  
  To big to fail isn’t the banks nowadays, well then to, but it’s IT as well.
  
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shotgun_crab@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’m very surprised you got downvoted for saying that

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- Rhoeri@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Me too. I never try to come off as pushy on the topic. Just suggesting an option, but man… people haven’t responded well to it in the past.
  
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Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
People well not pay for anything. I mean you can get YouTube premium without ads. But the vast majority don’t want it.

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- Rhoeri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Shit tons of people are paying for it. And the ones that aren’t, are viewing ads- both of these things are a profit for YouTube.
  
  The only option you have is to not use the services at all. This is how you hurt them.
  
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  - aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Nope. I don’t pay for it, and I don’t get ads.
    
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    Rhoeri@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    For now.
    
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WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
does it count as viewing if every time I just download the videos with yt-dlp, and watch in a good media player?

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