I’m not sure if this translates to the content creators. There’s many of them whom I really like to watch who do (or did) Youtube as a business model. Tom Scott being one example or Derek Muller (Veritasium). I’m subscribed to many more. Simplicissimus and their yet better second channel (in German). We wouldn’t have those without monetization. The platform of course went shit over time. Fortunately my Ad blocker still works and thanks to Sponsorblock my experience is fairly alright… But I’m personally split on this. We had quite the amount of entertainment before monetization but I think a large amount of quality content also arrived after that.
Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization
EfreetSK@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I don’t know. However maybe it’s just nostalgia but in my opinion, with youtube it went all to shit the moment the money started to be involved. Algorithm chasing, advertisement, reactive content, sponsors, quickly generated videos, … and all the other shit.
So if monetization, then let’s try to avoid same mistakes
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 6 days ago
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 6 days ago
One seemingly enormous difference is that YT is a for-profit platform owned by a huge business (Google), not a decentralised network run by many small volunteers. FWIW.